SMART Board Revolution

A Revolution in Education

All SMART Board educators, unite! Let's share ideas, tips, and lesson files and collaborate to maximize our students' learning.

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SMART Board Revolution Global Virtual User Group (SBRGVUG)

SBRGVUG (SMART Board Revolution Global Virtual User Group)

February Meeting 

When: Saturday, February, 4

Time: 9:30 am CT (15:30 UT)

Topics:

  • Sharing (contact me, or show up ready to share a tip or trick. Nothing is "too simple" to share because we have users at all levels.)
  • SBRGVUG Committee member Tamara Fellows will show us:
    • how to use interactive maps
    • some online activities
    • a virtual whiteboard on scrambler
    • study blue website for primary students and ESL students.
  • New monthly features will be introduced.
  • Kerry Macuska from Learning Station Insight, a SMART Certified company, will show us how to use SMART Response as a powerful state or CC standards assessment tool.

Registration: REGISTER NOW

Meeting Link: 

http://k20alt.ou.edu/groups/smartboardrevolution. It uses adobe connect to run the meeting. We will use this from now on. At the time, click the link and you are in. Click "Collaborate" on the right. Enter as guest, or you can create a login if you want, but it isn't required.


A New Way to #SBRGVUG

Let's keep the conversations started in meetings going between meetings. Follow #SBRGVUG on Twitter for answers to questions, to ask other questions, meeting reminders, and other SB Revolution news.

 

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If you would like to give input into meeting content, times, or volunteer to present something, fill out this survey.

 

Notebook, SMART Board Drivers, and Response patch for Mac OS X

These patches resolve issues in SMART Notebook collaborative learning software, SMART Product Drivers, and SMART Response software on Mac computers and includes fixes for Mac OS X 10.7 operating system software.


Note: Make sure that you have Notebook 10.8, Drivers 10.8 and Response 3.5 already installed before downloading and installing the patches.

 

Patches Download Link

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Elizabeth Hitt, Kathy White, Heide Heiman and 3 more joined SMART Board Revolution 1 hour ago
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Dane Hartman replied to Dane Hartman's discussion 'Hardware problems with Notebook v10.8'
Thanks Joanne, Your suggestions worked! The secret to the gesture issue was what you said, with the addition of having to click 'apply' rather than just 'ok'. Thanks again.
2 hours ago
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Joanne Villis replied to Dane Hartman's discussion 'Hardware problems with Notebook v10.8'
I should have said 'repair' not 'refresh' smart product drivers. You do this by right clicking on the product drivers. Apology.
16 hours ago
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Shane Aruja commented on Matt Granger's blog post 'Notebook 10.8 and Mac OS X Lion'
Needless to say that the patch was released on December 15th. It would have been great if it was notified through the software itself if it was running with Lion OSX.
18 hours ago
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Teachers of World Languages

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For teachers of World Languages to exchange lesson ideas and activities.
Lourdes Brown joined Joe campisi's group 20 hours ago
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Curt Kelly gave a gift to Reba Brock yesterday
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Curt Kelly replied to Doug's discussion 'Smart Response - How can i review itemized responses'
Doug - After you stop the assessment, you can export the results to an Excel spreadsheet.  To do this click on the "Response" tab and click "Export Results To" and choose "Microsoft Excel".  This should give…
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Juliane Farinazzo, Natalie Broadley, Eddie Oak and 3 more joined SMART Board Revolution yesterday
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Joanne Villis replied to teachfirst's discussion 'Organizing lessons for the day / week etc'
A bit off track but you can also create interactive activities using the 'calendar generator' suggested by Ian above. Here is an example of Notebook document.  
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Trying to find out if Smart Board works well with Lion OSX before a major deployment. Any information is much appreciated.
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A List of Great Educational Infographics

Hi everyone. I hope you are doing good. It is a while since I last posted here. It is just the constraint of Work, Master studies, and writing for two blogs. Anyway I always make sure to get back to my readers here and post the featured articles I have been covering recently. I wont be providing each article here because it is time consuming. If you want to stay updated about what I post you follow me in Twitter , Facebook , RSS Feed, or join my Facebook fan page.In this post I am sharing with…See More
Discussion posted by Med Kharbach yesterday
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Francesca replied to Francesca's discussion 'Problems with my new Smartboard'
Didn't know it! Thanks a lot! Francesca
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Blog Posts

Marty Ford

"Fundamentals of SMART Board" Philadelphia AREA training event...

Posted by Marty Ford on January 9, 2012 at 8:06pm 0 Comments

NEXT LEVEL INTERACTIVE PD is hosting another quality training event in the Philadelphia area February 16, 2012.  The afternoon session is quite affordable and full of useful tips and tricks to help kick start your lessons.  Using the SMART Board technology you have... visit us today at www.nextlevelpd.com for details and more!

Dave Blemings

Grade 10 Math (3)

Posted by Dave Blemings on January 9, 2012 at 3:38pm 0 Comments

Grade 10 (3) Alberta Curriculum Math unit

Here is a unit that has been developed by one of our teachers for Grade 10 Math. Section 3 is the lowest level of Math so this particular Math Unit was made to make it interesting for teachers. This is a big unit 160 Pages with lots of…

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Obe Hostetter

9 YouTube Tips and Tricks for Teachers

Posted by Obe Hostetter on January 2, 2012 at 11:33am 0 Comments

9 YouTube Tips and Tricks at http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2012/01/9-youtube-tips-and-tricks-for-teachers/  Any other YouTube tips or tricks you can add?  

Richard Wood

SPELLING PRACTICE SMART BOARD RESOURCE

Posted by Richard Wood on December 22, 2011 at 3:35am 0 Comments

Has anyone used this free teaching resource via the classroom Smart Board for American & English spelling practice for students of all ages? I will appreciate comments. Thank you.

http://www.spellathon.net…

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Gary Stutzman

Elementary Music Information

Posted by Gary Stutzman on November 30, 2011 at 8:56am 2 Comments

I am just getting started using the smart board program and I am wondering if there are any specific programs that have music available to help teach K-6 students Christmas songs for our upcoming concert?

 

Gary Stutzman

 
 
 

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Teaching With SMARTBoard

Leveraging Interactive Whiteboards as a Core Classroom Technology

SMART Technologies recently sponsored a whitepaper by T.H.E. Journal. Leveraging Interactive Whiteboards The paper includes survey data that supports research that shows interactive whiteboards are effective tools for increasing student outcomes. The school that we teach at was featured as one of the case studies. Enjoy, Scott and Dave Tweet This Post  [...]

Episode 82 Interactive SMARTBoard Games

In this podcast we explore some online interactive games as well as some interactive gallery options.  Interactive games are excellent for students to use with the SMARTBoard.  Of course we have a few jokes in there as well.  An itunes listing of TEACHING WITH SMARTBOARD click here Click here to go to the blog entry on purchasing [...]

Get SMART with SMART Boards Podcast

Episode 9

In Podcast Episode 9, Jim and Harvey revisit the topic of random selection. Harvey shares his Notebook file for using the Random Image Tool to create an engaging random number picker and Jim shares Notebook Video Tutorial for creating your own spinner. The Smart Notebook tip for this podcast discusses how to protect your Notebook files so you don't accidentally change the original Notebook file while using the application in the classroom.

Teachers Connecting 2 Classrooms

K12 Online: How Do I Know I Made A Difference?

From the teacher's perspective change can be scary, exciting, and full
of learning.  What does trying something new look like from a
student's perspective? Take a moment to consider a student as a
teacher begins to explore one new learning opportunity with a class.
Open your ears and visualize a whole a different perspective.

The Rocks (A Story from UnPlugd11)

In this episode Ben shares a story along with Tom, Rodd, and Zoe about UnPlugd11 (unplugd.ca) about rocks.

Lobotomy Music (Instrumental Version) Short Fuze & Nasa
"Don't Feed the Machine" (mp3)
from "Lobotomy Music (Instrumental Version)"
(Uncommon Records)

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Edbookclub: Online Professional Learning

In this episode Ben hears from Kelly, Lisa, Travis, Danny, Euen, Len, Tom, and Yoon about edbookclub.


 "Kuboniqs" Instrumental LP Fanatik
"2K(instr.)" (mp3)
from " "Kuboniqs" Instrumental LP"
(New Andalus Records)

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Oui Camera Oui The Heavenly States
"Model Son" (mp3)
from "Oui Camera Oui"
(Hippies Are Dead Records)

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