Monthly Archives: October 2010
Happy Halloween!
To celebrate the upcoming All Hallows Eve, we have a found a couple of excellent Jack O’ Lantern carving activities that work beautifully on the SMART Board. The links are as follows:
Cubpack 81 – http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf
Theoworlds Halloween Activity – http://www.theoworlds.com/halloween/
Here is one we created earlier – see if you can do better!
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NYS Exams for Science Teachers
You can get all of the old NYS science exams on your SMART Board to help your students prepare by downloading Notebook files from the Teq Educator Resource Center. The eighth grade tests from 2001 through 2008 have been updated with new images, answers and tags to be used in conjunction with SMART Response. … Read more
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Tagged Response, SMART Board Resources, state tests, test prep, testing
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SMART Introduces New Class of Interactive Whiteboard
CALGARY, Alberta — October 19, 2010 — SMART Technologies announces the SMART Board 800 series interactive whiteboard, a next-generation series that will provide the most natural and intuitive user experience yet on a SMART Board interactive whiteboard. The new 800 series extends the company’s leading interactive whiteboard product line to offer true student collaboration. The … Read more
The Battle of Yorktown Comes Alive
October 19th, 1781 signifies a important moment in American history as it marked General George Washington’s resounding defeat of Lord Cornwallis’s British army. This victory caused the British to surrender, effectively ending the American Revolutionary War. Bring the Battle of Yorktown to life with historyanimated.com. This site allows students to view animated battle scenes … Read more
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Gapminder World on Your SMART Board
The video below shows how SMART Notebook’s Transparent Background can be used with Gapminder.org. The tools, features, and talking points in the video are based on Hans Rosling’s video “200 years that changed the world”.
Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and … Read more
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First the Leaves, Now the Pen Tools — Changing Colors!
As the leaves begin to change color, consider spicing things up a little bit with your SMART Board by changing the color of the pen tools. Typically when you pick up a blue pen tool and write notes it writes in blue, pick up a black pen and write notes and the digital ink would … Read more
How to Create a Theme
You want all of your Notebook pages to have the same look. But how many times can you choose to clone a page? Instead, why don’t you create a Theme. Follow these easy steps and you can have the same background throughout a your SMART Notebook file.
- Open SMART Notebook
- Design the look of your
Tevas Noach: A SMART Board Lesson on Kosher Animals
Give students an interactive lesson on the difference between kosher and non-kosher animals without going to the petting zoo. They can arrange the animals into their respective kosher groups without getting into trouble with the zoo keepers.
In this Notebook lesson, your class can read and also see what makes a kosher beast. Then, through … Read more
This Library is Cool
No one is going to tell you to be quiet at this library. You can eat and drink at this library. You don’t even have to wear a shirt at this library. Thanks to the Internet Archive you have access to millions of resources just like at your local library, but now from any networked … Read more
Professional Development on October 27
Teq will be offering two opportunities for professional development on Wednesday, October 27 at PS 111X in the Bronx. Each class is $75.
MS/HS Social Studies for the SMART Board
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 from 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM (ET)
PS 111X, 3740 Baychester Avenue, Room 206
Bronx, NY 10466
This hands-on session will … Read more
