SMART Points to Ponder: Tierney Bros. 3

Points to Ponder: Tierney Bros. SMARTBOARD

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These are SMART Brand standards

1. Sharing a lesson, include a title page

Lesson Activity Toolkit, pages, lesson pages are great, color code with lesson pages, differentiate,

2. Use lesson pages

3. Use notebook section

4. Page design:  visual organization,  font size, 36 is ideal, 24^th is smallest, use 1 font, bright colors distract, pastel or off white or white for background, Visual hierarchy is the order in which the human eye perceives what it sees.  Contrast in colors can be difficult to see, check colors on the screen, some viewers are color blind. You can clone to layer and shadow a text.

Use the 4 bullet points as a limit each page, and limit words, use graphics to organize.

5. Copyright: Link to sites online is never an infringement, use what is in the software, can also use public domain photos, creative commons and attribute it, 75 years or older is fine, just google something from google images not okay, downloading videos not ok, or documents in the not public domain, from your textbook,

6. Add interactivity, do not add animation if not needed. Use animation, getting the kids up touching the board, and not leave kids in the desks, do not be the sage on the stage, links to online resources

7. Content appeal to multiple learning styles – use 5 senses that reinforce the learning objectives.

8. Include answers with keys.

9. Multi-media that is useful.

10. Instructions

11. Give credit and cite.

12. Use as many pages as necessary and not too much on one page.

13. For others, user-friendly,

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Games in the Toolkit:

Die, load dice with characters. Two students roll and the play the characters and converse.

Use cards to group students.

Random word chooser: use for choosing students to answer a question, for doing a speech. Students want to see animation and hear sound like a game show. Random group picker. You can also use photos with image one. Create groups with this. Inject the groups and save them.

Random number generator, use to learn numbers.

Vote tools, keep score.

Smart response with the clicker – Marzano’s research says the voting devices leads to, iwb, interactive white board, huge jump in formative research and the sweet spot with 2 years experience on tech, voting devices, 75% use, leads to 17% jump in student achievement. Formative assessment, can see who gets what right away and every kid has a voice. SMART response.

Notebook pages,

Smart response pages

Can also use with little white boards, thrifty white tile boards, and students respond with their white boards, plastic page protectors,  put pages in the lesson so you remember to ask the questions,

SMART start-up grant, talk to Tierney brothers, clickers, slates, 1^st purchase of that item, do it first, document camera, 50% off for the 1^st , You can Xerox and then they listen and answer quickly, use scratch paper and hand all in.

You can import quizzes from Word. SMART will recognize it.

Examview, save as richtext and you can import to SMART response. Clickers and the receiver and 2AA batteries each.

Use a word document for assignments, then put into SMART, and then pen comments, and save as pdf  and then send back with comments.

Insert comments and insert as drawing or as text. You can also do with Ppt.

Also works with Inkaware excel. Open excel file and write in stuff, save as exel, ink aware is Microsoft office.