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Gaming your way through chemistry assessments
September 27, 2012 – 4:15 am | No Comment
Gaming your way through chemistry assessments

By Kristin Straumann
Technology Integration Specialist and Science Instructor
Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City School District
Grove City, MN
My school district recently purchased several SMART accredited resources from New Path Learning, including a chemistry review game that I …

Tips I use to ensure a great start to the year
September 4, 2012 – 6:00 am | No Comment
Tips I use to ensure a great start to the year

By Lisa Parisi
Fourth-grade teacher
Herricks Union Free School District
Long Island, New York
September is here and, for many, this means beginning a new school year. This is the time I start thinking about what I need to …

Learning language
August 27, 2012 – 6:00 am | One Comment
Learning language

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, …

Taking a Title I School to New Levels with Classroom Technology
August 24, 2012 – 8:41 am | No Comment
Taking a Title I School to New Levels with Classroom Technology

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. …

Student thinking front and center
August 20, 2012 – 8:26 am | No Comment
Student thinking front and center

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 …

The return of my SMART Board interactive whiteboard
August 16, 2012 – 7:46 am | No Comment
The return of my SMART Board interactive whiteboard

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 …

Using Voki Avatars in SMART Notebook 11 is super easy and fun!
August 14, 2012 – 6:00 am | No Comment
Using Voki Avatars in SMART Notebook 11 is super easy and fun!

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 …

Sharing SMART knowledge and training teachers
August 12, 2012 – 7:00 am | One Comment
Sharing SMART knowledge and training teachers

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 …

Helping my nephew with special needs learn using a SMART Board
August 9, 2012 – 6:00 am | No Comment
Helping my nephew with special needs learn using a SMART Board

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 …

SMART runs in the family
August 2, 2012 – 12:13 pm | One Comment
SMART runs in the family

SMART recently spoke with three members of the Hayward family from New Brunswick, Canada who have embraced SMART products in their different roles as school administrator, teacher and student. Rick Hayward has recently retired as …

A Saturday lesson with Lincoln
July 30, 2012 – 7:08 am | No Comment

Watch this cute video from 13-year-old Emily Sparago teach her four-year-old nephew, Lincoln, from her make-shift classroom at home, using her SMART Board interactive whiteboard that she diligently saved up for to buy on her …

My 2012 SEE Summit Experience
July 24, 2012 – 6:00 am | No Comment
My 2012 SEE Summit Experience

By Julie Kuzma
The SMART Exemplary Educator (SEE Summit) is now over for another year and I’m amazed at all I have learned. Between the sessions led by fellow educators, trainers and SMART employees, I am …