Work Smarter (Smartboards)

• The smart board, Central States
• How to Unlock the Smartboard’s Potential.
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• Can use a pen to use for a smartboard survey. Pick a special font for the pen.
• Nate Maier, MYP IB coordinator, French 
• Darla Morris, Spanish at Bexley Ohio Schools
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• Wiki – http://worldlanguagewhiteboard.wikispaces.com 
• Integrate smartboard with foreign language curriculum, using textbook materials, student engagement, ideas.
• Scrolling quote at the top of the smartboard as they come in the room.
• Pull tabs, scrolling or timer on the pull tab
• Icon or graphic with a link
• Television station with video clips. Link to a current news site.
• Key points from the last lesson.
• Tongue twisters, slang, up-coming assignments, word of the day for electronic word wall, calendar with dates, weather, etc.
• Random text chooser, tap and it picks a new student. In the gallery. Random text. You can set it to no repeat.
• You can enter the students one time and the list can be used for any places.
• Multiple classes, label and number classes.
• Drag the icon to the calendar for the weather, infinitely clone something – infinitely clone – hold finger to the board for 5 seconds, is a right click.
• Save pieces or complete files in the gallery.
• Word wall. Quotes.
• You have 10 seconds to name five things found in the sky. Brick wall background is from google images. Save My Content gallery. Electronic word wall. Saved font is saved in text style. Save tool properties.
• Qu’est que c’est? what is behind the puzzle pieces – just change the back picture.
• Write a conversation between 10 toes – creative picture of toes, google images.
• Journal prompts – if I had 100 dollars. Puzzle pieces – white board
• The mom of whom? Question – hidden
• Or who is this?
• Or what is this?
• These are creative openers.
• Found on a website a whole gameboard of statements to make, and roll the die and move the game
• Resource download site. Dice are in the gallery.
• What is the longest word/phrase you can make with letters.
• Photograph the class – spotlite tool, answer a question
• Magic pen disappears, a square magnifies it but works well with maps
• Group work, boxes of what they are doing, star what they are doing
• 5-5-1 Deluxe! Write 5 summary sentences summarizing what happened, 5 key words, 1 key word,
• Write a text message to reflect back
• Fill out a graphic organizer
• Connections – answer questions about the lesson
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• 2:29 pm find stuff from websites
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• anything with the UK, they have a standard national curriculum. 
• Lock so the kids can’t mess with it. You can unlock and change anything.
• Marquis select. But not with something infinitely cloned or locked. Marquis and you can change them all at the same time.
• How to adapt all you know how to do to use the smart board – Darla.
• My gallery. All questions answered in the gallery. Look through the gallery.
• Try to do one thing every week.
• My content – put everything that you have created. Like class names. Drag into your activity to use it. Drag into my content to save. My content saves to your C drive on your deskdrive. Touch right and save. Notebook 10.6. Most have 10.1. touch write and save allows you to use anything you have (formerly called, The Digital Ink Layer). Make notes and annotations over anything you are already using. Don’t have to create everything over again. Create new items and put into notebook software.
• Write on desktop, can close, or take a picture and save in notebook software page, can be utilized over anything.
• Save the background as you are writing on top. Touch the picture, where does it go? The latest notebook software file that you use.
• Digital Ink Layer can be utilized with any other software.
• Webpage – study Spanish.com – practice pages. Overwrite, and save.
• Practice quiz – overwrite and save. Capture
• Write over powerpoint slides. Save a clean copy. And then Ppt with notes and re-save.
• Pull tabs on images for interaction.
• You can use your existing stuff. Digital stuff. Everything that comes as a digital copy, drag as a pdf, then overwrite. Do it and save.
• Change the size. Just like on google.
• Use audacity and garage band with the photo, or insert your own podcast. Your own MP3 files, or as a wave files. Headset with a microphone.
• Insert it from google, and insert as a sound file.
• Anything you can do on the computer, do on the smartboard.
• Use the Smartboard to capture, write notes, etc.
• Drill on the smartboard as a class together.
• Use your digital textbook materials on the smartboard. The digital textbook.
• You can capture from the video. Tell a story from what you capture.
• In the gallery. Online essentials for educators.
• Online essentials for educators. Entire smartboard files created for you. Go to the UK has more smartboard materials.
• Take the standards and find materials from the online essentials for teachers. Integrate standards with the language. Change all the words to the target language (for example – the weather).
• Use the activites – Senteo clickers for surveys. Senteo question sets.
• Lesson activity tool kit.
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• Nate:
• Listening ideas:
• 3:00 – grammar and listening.
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• Conjugating verbs – drag subject pronoun, verb, to box, - match color to the box – so the ending disappears. Properties, fill effects, change the color of the box. Drop it in the box.then add the endings. Choose the box, order, send it to the back. Words sit on top.  Whatever you type last will be on top.
• Past tense, then the endings.
• Keep stem in the middle, the same, drag the pronouns at the beginning and the endings at the right. All one text box, the others at each side.
• Spin the dial.
• Random text, the spinner. Drag it into your gallery. Type in any words. Spinner in the gallery.
• Verb tenses infnitely clone verbs, infinitives, snake your way across, conjugate the verb and move across. Change tense, and then do this, dry erase. Focus on a questions. They can all do the dry erase. Draw name and who gets it.
• Je mange des saucisses. Je les mange. Highlite and replace.
• Flags with adjectives.
• Videos, listen and speak.
• Preteret with Jacques pervert poem.  Split screen. Can pin a page down. View, zoom, pin page, will always keep the page pinned. Pin one side and change the other side. Pin a page in the zoom spot. Pin an orginal work.
• Video on dejeuner du matin. Insert and imbed.
• Screen captures, insert the file into the smartboard notebook. Even just part of the video. You can write over it.  Smartboard file gets really big. Cumbersome.
• Listening bingo, bingo board, a random number generator. Edit what numbers you want. Manually generates them. Get them talking about the phrases. Talking bingo.
• Listening bingo. Predicting what will come. Olympics, brainstorm a list of vocabs related. Write them on the board. Go to the listening file, see if they have any hits – win, listening bingo.
• Transparent checkerbox on the top of the smartboard. Transparent interactive layer. Use it with a scavenger hunt. Smartboard notebook files, still active and live. Look on the website or search for things.
• Checkerbox brings back your file.
• Quelle heure est-il? Song
• Can stick in the CD player and play it. Block out words. Leave blanks.
• What words can you com eup with – a list of words – inserted video. Split screen. Video. Words. Listen to the song, fill in with words. Bebelilly
• http://express.smarttech.com/
• website, open smartboard files from this website. You don’t have to download the notebook software.
• Also, students can go to the website to use these for ideas.
• Smarttech files, they can use it on their computers. Adobe pdf – file export as a pdf so anyone can open. Not interactive but they can use it. Also as a Ppt. it is interactive.
• You can save your notes from the smartboard on ppt and then save notes, or as a pdf and then they cannot change it.
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• 3:30. 3:40
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• students interacting with the board – doing it in stations – classroom management 
• Auction off 15 minutes of smartboard at school - $50 for fund-raising.
• Older students can create their own lesson.
• How to make the sun bigger – click on the object box, to do anything with the object box. Properties, effects, when it occurs.
• Links with daily lessons:
• Tierney brothers for smartboards.
• Single page on –er and –ir verbs. Better to use the single page and not the marginal stuff on the board. Daily lesson plans. Senteo. Can click on presentations attached within the lesson. Hyper link. Worksheet. Highlite the materials. Screen shade pull down to do the lesson from top to bottom. Charts are included. Different colors to code the verbs.  Go back and forth within presentation or lesson. Groups, edit groups, title pages. Activity sheet, answer sheet, sample verb charts. Link them within document, from groups. Many different links, all links within the same file. Copy makes it big. Just link to build lesson without making an unmanageable file.
• Double click on a file to title it. Click on a word file, drag to smartboard file, drag and hold, and then let go, will go onto the last page.
• Print copy share. Can still edit it.
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• 4pm 
• Tips and tricks from Nate to jazz up the lesson.
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• Color changing rub and reveal trick. Pull tab. Vocab matches the background. Erase over and it reveals the answer. Mark over with the white to match the background. Then erase over the it reveals the answer. Save as with the white over it.
• Above and below. Layers. Instant feedback. Order, send to back and will go behind the virtual box and it will disappear. Set up before hand. Save with the settings. Jacques Bondex. Set spyglass to the back. Type the word in the box. With the spyglass the color will show up. All based on order on the screen. The spyglass is a circle, group together as one object. Put in content as one.
• Magic box – drag graphic with word into magic box.
• On a clock, answers covered of the time.
• On a chart, sentence is attached, drag it into the chart.
• Youtube video – objects. Can make them transparent or partly so. What is on top. They do not know the order. Guess about separating them out. What is on top, bottom? Qu’est-ce qu’il y a au dessus? En bas?
• Art animation, picture, add animation, under and then see it.
• Take the word out of jail. Word escape. Resources.
• www.tes.co.uk = the best, register to have new stuff sent to you
• http://community.teqsmart.org new york company with files
• http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk
• http://exchange,smarttech.com
• http://souffler.typepad.com/home/
• http://joedale.typepad.com/
• http://www.teacherslovesmartboards.com
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• 4:23 Darla
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• Moodle limits the size of the files you put on there, the rest you simply link.
• Students can drag to communicate and create conversation. Put the dialogue up in the wrong order.
• Build a conversation.
• Split screen you can drag it from one page to the next.
• Infinitely clone so you can drag it and the original stays.
• Pin page keeps the page the same.
• Learn how to study – ideas from the students.
• Bring materials from the web, print capture.
• Attach a link.
• Lock the page – then write on the page. Unlock to change.
• Capture and enlarge.
• Download lesson plans.
• Kids can email pictures to you. Your favorite person.
• Split screen and brainstorm as a class.
• For Chinese it recognizes stroke order.
• Fake smartboard, use the software on a computer.
• License to use smartboard software on every computer.
• Brainstorming with students, writing on the board in class. Save.
• http://worldlanguagewhiteboard.wikispaces.com