Smart 1-2-3

Today's Smart 3 class will wrap up what we've learned the past few days. We're about to go to the "students'" classroom to explore the possibilities on the Smart Board. Pictures to come.

Smart Notebook with Scans

Mr. Melgard showed a class of five how to use the scanner with Smart Notebook. Later, we practiced how to use the scanner with Mr. Melgard's computer.

Mr. Melgard demonstrating

Practicing

Smart 1-2-3

We're in our second session of Smart 1-2-3 ("Smart 2", if you will). Yesterday, we learned about the lesson activity toolkit created by Smart Tech. Homework last night was to create a lesson to present today. Here are a few pictures of the presentations:

Ms. Iannairello presenting her lessons for
second grade with reading the silent E

Mrs. Scher sharing her creative
lessons using pictures and characters
from the movie, Ratatouille.


Scott presenting his lesson on Punnett Squares

Today we're going to focus on sounds and movies.

Mrs. Cartwright showing how to attach sound.

More to come!
~Kristi

Digital Wave... from afar

"Mrs. Bartels, there's a 2% chance I might not be at Digital Wave this year." That was back in March.

As it happened, I attended only Monday of Digital Wave 2008, because it's Tuesday today and I write this sitting in a hotel room in Sunnyvale, California. Little did I know that the 2% chance of my lack-of-presence at Digital Wave would be because I was asked by Google to present my work at 3D Basecamp, Wednesday-Friday of this week.

So as I write this from the Digital Wave Satellite Campus, if we can call it that, I hope all is going and continues to go well back at school (with only a limited number of blackouts.) If you find a free moment, please check out my blog and see how it's going thus far.

My regards to everyone back at RCDS...

_andrew

Smart Board Sandbox

Smart Board Sandbox was a major success! Three teachers shared their ideas with the class.


Mrs. Clarke taught us how to use TI-84 SmartView with Smart Notebook.

Mr. Cavanaugh shared some of his interactive lessons in Spanish which consisted of dragging vocabulary or literary works into categories.

Mr. Flynn showed how he makes his map lessons more interesting with dragging and labeling parts of maps (hide-and-reveal)

Mr. Melgard introducing the class

Second half of Mr. Melgard's SMARTboard session

The second half of Mr. Melgard's SMARTboard session finished today with a half hour of free time for the students to play around with the SMARTboard.


~s

Half-day SMARTboard session

Mr Melgard taught five students the first half of Mrs. Cartwright's full-day SMARTboard session. This class covered many of the basics in SMARTboard use. The second half of this class will be taught by Mr. Melgard tomorrow morning.



~S