I have been working with a Smartboard for 3 years. Recently I have been listening to the Smartboard Podcast on www.pdtogo.com. Ben Hazzard and Joan Badger always have wonderful sites to use in class and new and interesting ways to integrate technology into everyday teaching. Recently I tried googlemaps in support of a unit I teach on the American Revolution. It was fun to show my students Boston Harbor and to actually show them where the Boston Tea Party took place 200 some odd years ago. Many of them had not made that connection. This past Friday I had a parent volunteer come in to teach an art lesson. In this art lesson she needed to use a pull down map. Yes I have a pull down map but pulling up a satellite image of Europe on the Smartboard was much more realistic for the students. The parent was wowed and is going to share this with her friends. Easy support for more technology in the classroom and so very real support for the lesson. I really like google and its online tools.
Mitch
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You write very well.
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