Article Archive for August 2012
By Mike MacKinnon
When it comes to unlocking potential in students, the staff at Propel Braddock Hills takes a unique approach – try anything and see if it works. It’s a philosophy they share with …
By Emily Sparago
13-year-old student, SMART Board aficionado and aspiring teacher
If you’re familiar with Bridgit, then you know it’s an amazing video-conferencing software capable of many incredible things, such as screen-sharing, taking control of someone else’s …
By Kelly Derushia
SMART Exemplary Educator
Technology Resource Teacher
Bailey Elementary School
Dover, Florida
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.”
– Frank Smith
Bailey Elementary School is located in Dover, …
By Wendy McMahon
When Joe Griffin took the position of principal six years ago at Crystal Lake Elementary School, a SMART Showcase School in Lakeland, Florida, this Title I school had very little classroom technology. …
Gretchen Monahan, a teacher of Reading and Math, Reading Recovery and Leveled Literacy Intervention for K–2 students at Avalon Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sent in this fun SMART Notebook tip that shows how you …
By Cindy Emmons
First-grade Teacher and SMART Exemplary Educator
Coyote Creek Elementary School
Douglas County School District
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
“My role as a teacher is to step aside and let my students do the talking and creating in the …
By Alex Dunn
On a recent visit to SMART’s executive briefing center, I had the opportunity to see the latest SMART products.
I was immediately drawn to the SMART Board 8055ix interactive whiteboard, part of the new …
By Rachel Long (Csanadi-Schwartz)
While attending the North American SMART Exemplary Educator (SEE) Summit this summer, we had a session with SMART Education Consultant, Heather Lamb, who introduced us to embedding widgets or Flash Files in …
By Al Wolmer
Well, hello to the SMART community. I haven’t blogged much before (as in I’ve never blogged before!) but so many of my new SMART Exemplary Educator (SEE) friends from this year’s SEE Summit …
By Emily Sparago
13-year-old student and aspiring teacher
In February 2012, my two-year old nephew, Cole, was diagnosed with Epilepsy – a condition that incites inevitable seizures, unless controlled with medication. In late June of 2012, he …
By Lise Galuga
Franco-Ontarian teacher
Read the French version of my post at the end of the English version
SMART Notebook 11 collaborative learning software has a newly designed adaptive toolbar. Once a tool is chosen, the toolbar …
By Kristin Straumann
One of my favorite things to do with SMART Notebook 11 collaborative learning software is have the students use Activity Builder to create their own interactive activity to create review activities, such as …
