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Susan Blakely’s Six Tips to Personalize Learning
January 25, 2013 – 9:12 am | 2 Comments
Susan Blakely’s Six Tips to Personalize Learning

By Susan Blakely
Personalized learning means different things to different educators. SMART Exemplary Educators recently shared their perspectives about the term with us. Here’s what Susan Blakely had to say.
Personalized learning for individual students is “utopia” …

See iTEC’s Vision for Designing Future Classrooms at BETT
January 21, 2013 – 12:58 pm | No Comment
See iTEC’s Vision for Designing Future Classrooms at BETT

iTEC is a four-year, multinational project funded by the European Commission and lead by European Schoolnet . Its mandate is to examine the classroom of the future – today!
The project brings together policymakers from 15 …

Inspired Teacher + SMART Notebook App for iPad = Success
November 30, 2012 – 1:15 pm | 4 Comments
Inspired Teacher + SMART Notebook App for iPad = Success

Now that versions of SMART Notebook software are available across multiple platforms, teachers are using it as a way to effectively manage the transitions between whole-class, small group and individual learning. The flexibility of this …

Teacher’s Perspective: Calming Qualms about Technology
November 22, 2011 – 2:10 pm | No Comment
Teacher’s Perspective: Calming Qualms about Technology

One of Alicia Gillean’s specialties is inspiring and motivating reluctant users of technology to change their perspective.
As the library media specialist at Jenks West Intermediate School in Jenks, Oklahoma, Gillean works with teachers on …

Teacher’s Perspective: Starting an Interactive Whiteboard Revolution
November 8, 2011 – 8:29 am | 2 Comments
Teacher’s Perspective: Starting an Interactive Whiteboard Revolution

If you are a SMART product user, there”s a pretty good chance you’ve seen or heard of the SMART Board Revolution Ning. You may even be one of the 8700 members that contribute to the …

Teacher’s Perspective : Adding the Magic Factor
October 24, 2011 – 7:06 am | No Comment
Teacher’s Perspective : Adding the Magic Factor

When it comes to teaching her classroom of fifth-graders, Katy Wang knows that she can count on SMART products to make her lessons dynamic and engaging.
This SMART Exemplary Educator from Martin Elementary School in Santa …

Teacher’s Perspective: Arts, Technology and Obama
September 13, 2011 – 7:17 am | One Comment
Teacher’s Perspective: Arts, Technology and Obama

In July, during the SEE Summit (which is held every year at SMART’s Headquarters) we had the opportunity to chat with Michael Goodman from Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Virginia.
This instructional technology coordinator has had …

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 …

Teacher’s Perspective: A Global View of Literacy
July 21, 2011 – 7:10 am | One Comment
Teacher’s Perspective: A Global View of Literacy

SMART Exemplary Educator (SEE) Sandra Chow has taught at two schools — and they are on the other side of the world from each other!
This elementary teacher and library/media specialist spent four and a half …

Teacher’s Perspective: Making Math Come Alive
July 13, 2011 – 3:10 pm | No Comment
Teacher’s Perspective: Making Math Come Alive

“We all have a responsibility to trigger the curiosity of the kids” is Caroline Fortier’s response when asked about her philosophy towards teaching.
This high school math teacher from École secondaire La Frontalière in Coaticook, Quebec, …

Teacher’s Perspective: Insight into Student Understanding
June 24, 2011 – 7:11 am | No Comment
Teacher’s Perspective: Insight into Student Understanding

For Jeff VanArnhem, daily assessment keeps students from ”falling through the cracks” in his high school math classes at Olmsted Falls High School in Olmsted Falls, Ohio.
For the past three years, Jeff has used the …

Teacher’s Perspective: Spicing Up SMART Board lessons
June 24, 2011 – 5:01 am | No Comment
Teacher’s Perspective: Spicing Up SMART Board lessons

Whether you’ve been using SMART products for years or you’ve just created your first SMART Notebook software activity, there are so many easy and creative ways you can energize learning in your classroom!
Just ask Donna …