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Teachers Connecting 11: Year End Ideas

In This Episode: Joan shares Math Movies, and looks for ideas for iPod Touches. Stephan shares about the Pulse SMARTPen. Gary Hewgley asks about Inspiration / Kidspiration on the SMARTBoard and wonders about making engaging PD opportunities. Janice Friesen loves the TeachersConnecting.com idea and give Gary a suggestion. Andy McKiel shares with Gary how he has used TECH Talks. Blog Love [...]

Marzano and IWB Technology

Here are two intresting articles regarding IWB and some studies involving Robert Marzano.  They are well worth your read! http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/nov09/vol67/num03/Teaching_with_Interactive_Whiteboards.aspx http://iwbrevolution.ning.com/forum/topics/robert-marzano-and-interactive Tweet This Post 

Episode 6

Jim Hollis and Harvey Almarode bring you a scary episode of Get SMART with SMART Boards. This week Jim and Harvey share some Halloween resources for teachers to use with their SMART Board. Harvey begins by sharing is thoughts on the Living Sasquatch website. This website allows you to incorporate your webcam to bring a living Sasquatch onto your SMART Board. Jim's website recommendation is Oswego City School's interactive games which include some great Halloween themed Math games. Jim and Harvey also share some creepy Halloween Notebook files including Jim's Halloween Safety House. The podcast concludes with a challenge from Harvey to create a 3D hole in a 3D rectangle using the tools in the Notebook toolbar. Jim also shares a tip on how to incorporate sound into your Notebook files.