Monthly Archives: May 2008
Friday Wrap-Up
Hello, friends. Did you realize that when you return to work on Monday, it will be June? June!
Earlier this week, we posted about what teachers can do this summer to prepare themselves to use the SMART Board when the school year starts.
Which got us to thinking, what can we do this summer when … Read more
Summer and SMART Boards
The end of the school year is fast approaching. Even New York City schools have less than a month before summer. While this is awesome, some teachers have expressed concerns to us that being away for two months might leave them back at square one with the SMART Board when fall comes, especially now that … Read more
New Lesson Plans on the ERC
We just uploaded 15 new elementary school lesson plans to our Educator Resource Center. Check them out.
Check back here tomorrow for a longer post.… Read more
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Tagged Educator Resource Center, Lesson Plans
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Hubble
Last Thursday the Hubble Space Telescope captured a new red spot on the planet Jupiter. We’ll take this opportunity to showcase on our blog hubblesite.org, which contains great photo galleries and a list of discoveries from the most well known space telescope.… Read more
Friday Wrap-Up
It has been a great week here at TeqSmart, but we are still smiling at the thought of the three day weekend that is mere hours away.
This week we had to reconstruct and repost last week’s The SMART Board Versus. Our theories as to its disappearance are as follows: (1) Bill Gates discovered … Read more
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Look to the right
Check out the new links on the right for the Educator Resource Center. Now, you can see the most recently updated lessons. We also encourage you to check out the ERC forums.
This is a short post. I’m sorry.… Read more
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SMART Boards on the Frontline
While the TeqSmart training department spends most of its free time watching How I Met Your Mother and playing Guitar Hero, occasionally we switch the station to PBS to feed our brains. Last night, we caught an excellent episode of Frontline called Growing Up Online. In the middle of a section on technology … Read more
The SMART Board Versus!
Some may recall that the last time this feature appeared on our blog, it caused the most heated comments in TeqSmart blog history. In the SMART Board Versus we compare the SMART Board to similar products based on a extensive battery of tests…or we choose arbitrary categories that we find amusing. One or the other.… Read more
Lesson Activity Toolkit Part 2: The Toolkit Strikes Back
You might remember that we posted a video in our “This Thing is Awesome” series about the Lesson Activity Toolkit, a collection of new tools for the Essentials for Educators gallery in Notebook. That was a few month back (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away), and since then, SMART has updated … Read more
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Tagged Lesson Activity Toolkit, Lesson Plans, Notebook, Smart
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We’re on Facebook
For those who are not familiar with Facebook, it is a social networking site that allows people to find connect with groups of friends who no longer live nearby or meet new people. Groups on Facebook allow people with similar interests to share information, plan upcoming events, and discuss issues.
Also, Facebook allows you … Read more
