What do you hope to learn in this study group?
Please try to make your goals specific, relevant and trackable. As your study group evolves, your goals might change as short-term goals lead to long-term goals. We will take time to refine goals about half-way through the year.
  • Learn image sort
  • Transfer writing to text
  • Simple interactive things for the kids
  • Explore the Marketplace
  • How to use the document camera
  • Learn how to make a Balloon Pop
  • Learn which Smartboard tools can be used without a Smartboard
  • Learn how to "not be in the shadow"
  • Practice using all the tool buttons
  • Explore the Toolkit and Gallery Essentials- This is planned for Octobers PD.
    • Great! There is certainly enough in there to keep you busy for a long time!
  • How to print slides full size
  • Learn how to freeze the screen- so the board stays the same but the computer is usable.

What resources can you identify to help you reach these goals?
  • Kristen
  • Time
  • The Smart marketplace
  • Youtube videos
  • Each other
  • Google
Other Topics
  • Learn how to use the Wiki.
I am preparing a Glogster page with general Smart resources. It will appear shortly on the main navigation bar of this wiki andw ill be called Smart Board general resources. You should find some good links there!

October Update...
During our PD session we Explored the Toolkit and Gallery Essentials as stated above.
We went to the Gallery Essentials then Lession Activity Tool kit> interactive multi media tab.
We reviewed the following activites:
  1. Balloons
  2. Annagrams
  3. Image select (image sort- community pictures)
  4. Image match (drag titles to picture)
  5. Pairs (a memory type game)
  6. Word ??? (word game like hangman with rotton tomatoes or soccar)