Self-Directed Learning Project Update: SMARTBoard

For my self-directed learning Project I will be creating three interactive SMARTBoard slides. I have been researching on the internet how to create interactive SMARTBoard slides and I have also found some good ideas that I can alter to fit the slides that I plan creating. I want to create the three slides that will work as a day of morning work for a second grade class. My first slide will be a slide welcoming the students to school that morning and asking the students a question with two possible answers. This is a way that I as a teacher can take daily attendance, and also the students will be making a graph when answering the question. When we start with the morning work and calendar we will look at the graph the students created. Also, I will have a slide in which the students create as many ways as possible to show a certain dollar amount. I will have pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and one dollar bills for the students cloned on the SMARTBoard (Using the cloning button) and then the students will come up to the SMARTBoard and show all the different ways that they have came up with. For my last slide, I would like to create a slide in which the students add to the monthly calendar everyday with the weather. I am still looking into exactly how to make this slide, but I think the students would enjoy doing something like this for calendar morning work.

"How Clean Is the Scene?" Lesson Plan

The lesson plan I have chosen is called "How Clean is the Scene?".  

J Alves.(22-Nov-09). Clker. [Germ C] Retrieved from Clker

During this lesson, technology is an option to use in the introduction. The technology that is recommended is a video from schooltube.com that students have made about germs. This is the only technology that the lesson already has incorporated in it. I do think this video is a great way to use technology before beginning the lesson, as it really will engage the students.
To add more technology to the lesson, I could use the SMARTBoard and have a blank document pulled up. After reading the introduction story I could ask my students ways in which they can find which areas of the classroom have the most germs, and then I would write the ways the students come up with on the SMARTBoard. During the lesson, I could have the procedures posted on the SMARTBoard along with who is in each group and what each groups assigned scene is. After the students perform the experiment I will post the chart on the smart board and have the students fill in the chart together as a class. I can also replay the same video from the introduction, or find a similar video to review what was learned during the lesson.

Self-Directed Learning Project- SMARTBoards

Kathy Cassidy. (September 28, 2006). Smartboard. Retrieved from Flickr

For my self-directed learning project I am going to learn how to use a SMARTBoard. SMARTBoards are the "new thing" to use in elementary school classrooms. I would like to learn about all the programs that are available to use on the SMARTBoard. I have also heard that there are many free online materials and resources that would be beneficial for the students. This semester I am placed in a classroom that has a SMARTBoard and my teacher uses it daily for teaching math. I hope that she is able to teach me how to use the SMARTBoard and I am able to learn all of the benefits a SMARTBoard brings to the classroom. By the end of the semester I hope to be able to teach a complete SMARTBoard lesson in the classroom I am placed in.