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Article Archive for August 2011

Using Response VE and personal devices in the classroom
August 31, 2011 – 6:02 am | No Comment
Using Response VE and personal devices in the classroom

EDCompass blog gathered some ideas on how you and your students can use SMART Response VE interactive response system and personal mobile devices to enhance lessons.
How it works
The browser-based product integrates with SMART Notebook …

Reader Survey Winner Announced!
August 30, 2011 – 6:01 am | No Comment
Reader Survey Winner Announced!

Thanks to everyone who completed the 2011 EDCompass newsletter reader survey this past summer. We had a great response to this year’s survey and your feedback is helping us continue improving EDCompass to better meet …

Teacher’s Perspective: Training for the Future of Learning
August 26, 2011 – 10:34 am | No Comment
Teacher’s Perspective: Training for the Future of Learning

It doesn’t matter if it’s an accounting application, a claymation program or assessment software –if it’s being used in Hillsborough County Public Schools, David Lopez and his colleagues in the professional development department can provide …

Leave your projectors in SMART’s care
August 24, 2011 – 7:05 am | No Comment
Leave your projectors in SMART’s care

We hear stories all the time about how SMART Board interactive whiteboards are relied upon as a way to promote collaboration, increase interactivity in daily lessons and improve overall engagement in the classroom.
If you use …

Ideas for using your SMART Board with an iPod Touch
August 23, 2011 – 6:01 am | 3 Comments
Ideas for using your SMART Board with an iPod Touch

Portable media players such as the iPod Touch are becoming an increasingly common part of the education landscape. Some districts are making large scale adoptions of the product so each student has a device for …

Kick off back to school with a SMART Table webinar
August 22, 2011 – 12:34 pm | No Comment
Kick off back to school with a SMART Table webinar

Are you interested in learning more about your SMART Table interactive learning center and SMART Table Toolkit?
The SMART Table Virtual User Group is holding a webinar called “Back-To-School-Kick-Off!” this Thursday, August 25 from 3 to …

Recycle your old SMART products
August 18, 2011 – 6:01 am | No Comment
Recycle your old SMART products

SMART users know our products last many years – in fact some teachers have been using the same product since the early nineties. But we continue to release new and exciting products all the time.
So …

New interactive whiteboard resource from TeachersFirst.com
August 16, 2011 – 7:36 am | No Comment
New interactive whiteboard resource from TeachersFirst.com

Following the enthusiastic response from educators on her ISTE 2011 presentation on interactive whiteboards, Candace Hackett Shively, Director of K–12 initiatives at The Source for Learning, decided to add a new section to her website, …

Classroom amplification systems and student performance
August 9, 2011 – 1:50 pm | No Comment
Classroom amplification systems and student performance

T.H.E. Journal recently published an article about how students’ ability to hear can impact their behavior, academic success and attention-span in class.
The article, Listen Up, explores how classroom acoustics have an impact on teaching and …

Using Tables in SMART Notebook Lessons Activities
August 4, 2011 – 6:02 am | No Comment
Using Tables in SMART Notebook Lessons Activities

Using interactive tables in your lessons is a great solution for grouping and organizing objects, ordering images and letters, or hiding words, like you would, for example, in a crossword puzzle. Kyle Wilson, a member …

An Insider’s Look at ARRA
August 3, 2011 – 8:42 am | No Comment
An Insider’s Look at ARRA

When it comes to federal legislation on education policy, technology and funding, Jon Bernstein has his finger on the pulse of the latest changes, news and proposals.
For the past 10 years, Bernstein has been working …

T.H.E. Journal Whitepaper Examines Role of Interactive Whiteboards in Student Learning
August 2, 2011 – 6:44 am | One Comment
T.H.E. Journal Whitepaper Examines Role of Interactive Whiteboards in Student Learning

T.H.E. Journal has published a whitepaper that looks at the results of a reader survey on interactive whiteboards and case studies of two districts that have put in place highly effective interactive whiteboard implementations.
In February, …