Category Archives: Miscellaneous

The SMART Way to Choose Students

Whether it’s the beginning of the school year or you’re substituting a class, you’ll never have to worry about forgetting a name when you call on a student. Using the Random Word Chooser tool in SMART Notebook, you can have the software … Continue reading

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Free, Free, Free

As the school year begins, teachers are looking for ways to use their SMART Boards effectively in the classroom within a tight budget. For teachers interested in fee-based extra-curricular and enrichment programs, there are organizations happy to help fund these … Continue reading

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Flashcard Machine

Flashcards on Steroids

Remember when there weren’t computers in the classroom? I can, but maybe that’s TMI. Anyway… young or old, can you remember using flashcards to help you remember definitions, dates, or any information for that matter? You wrote a word, math … Continue reading

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It’s elementary my dear Watson

Or is it? This month IBM’s newest super-computer, Watson, will take on the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time. Watson is an artificial intelligence program that has the capacity to answer questions in natural language. Deciphering language is no … Continue reading

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Customizing Toolbar and Toggling Tabs

One of the most powerful features of the SMART Notebook software is its ability to adjust instantly to the needs of the learner. In this blog post, we’ll see how a teacher or student can customize the main toolbar as … Continue reading

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Cannibalizing Notebook Pages

When it comes to using Teq’s Educator Resource Center, most users probably know that if they want to make changes to a page, such as font type or color or the size or position of an object, they can. They … Continue reading

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Happy New Year, SMART Notebook Gallery Collection!

I needed a 2011 calendar to use in SMART Notebook on my SMART Board. Unfortunately, the calendar backgrounds in my SMART Notebook gallery only display through 2009. I found the calendars I need for 2011 as a Gallery Collection from … Continue reading

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Fun and Learning with Mixed Reality

A hot technology recently, has been “Mixed Reality” a.k.a. “Augmented Reality.” The technology adds 3-D interactive, virtual objects to our real world that can be used for learning. If you have access to a new SMART Document Camera you will eventually be able to use Mixed Reality. … Continue reading

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Chanukah Candle Lighting

Before this Festival of Lights, Hebrew teachers everywhere teach their students to add new candles from right to left and light the candles from left to right. Interestingly enough, when teachers were asked about how we light the Chanukiah, they … Continue reading

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Nat’l Library of Virtual Manipulatives

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) contains more than 100 free, web-based manipulatives for math. My favorite is  “Base Blocks”. When you move a block one column to the right, it breaks apart to show that you have made an exchange. … Continue reading

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