SMART Learner Conference FIU Miami - where are you?

Wonderful morning session with Social Studies educators excited to learn about SMART Notebook, and countless resources, professional development opportunities, and classroom activities for students in each of their courses.


I have to ask where are you? So many great sessions and so much to learn and add to your teaching toolbelt!

Great SMART Learners Conference sessions and resources...Work SMARTer Not Harder!

SMART Learner Conference at FIU in Miami is underway!

Teachers of all grades and subject areas are attending the SMART Learner Conference at FIU in Miami.

New SMART experiences to be had, and so many ideas to take back to students and colleagues - guaranteed!

Wish you were here!

SMART Learner Conference and WEBINAR!

SMART Learner Conference in YOUR Backyard!

Join us for a Webinar on March 21, 4-5pm.

Join Perri Robinson, SMART Education Consultant for South Florida and Ron Baker, Manager of SMART Training and Professional Development, for a brief webinar to learn more about the upcoming SMART Learner Conference on March 30th and 31st at Florida International University (CoE). We will answer all questions, share with you all of the amazing SMART sessions and update you on the current deals we are offering to those interested in attending. Don't miss this webinar and the opportunity to get involved with the SMART community of users. We will be raffling off TWO SEATS for the conference. Don't miss out!

SMART Learner Conference on Friday, 30 March & Saturday, 31 March is hosted at the College of Education at Florida International University. We are pleased to share that our keynote speaker will be State Representative Ana Rivas Logan, District 114. Cost $179 for both days, and Two-forOne offer is ongoing! Includes lunch

To take advantage of this great opportunity, please use the link below to contact our Training Specialists for assistance with registration:
http://smarttech.com/contacttraining

Webinar System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar Seat Now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/244539346

Christopher Columbus High School has been selected as a 2012 SMART Showcase Elite School!

Just received word from Deena at SMART:
"Christopher Columbus High School has been selected as a 2012 SMART Showcase Elite School! Each year, 25 SMART Showcase Schools are recognized as Elite for the duration of the calendar year. SMART Showcase Elite Schools are those that have demonstrated an exceptional commitment in using a wide range of SMART products in the majority of classrooms to create appealing, interactive learning environments that increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes. Educators and administrators at SMART Showcase Elite Schools have shared their results and experiences with their local education community by consistently hosting visitors who are interested in learning more about SMART. They have also been active members of SMART learning communities, such as SMART User Groups, the SMART Exemplary Educator Program, and SMART Exchange, in an effort to constantly improve and share their SMART skills.

"As a 2012 SMART Showcase Elite School, your school will receive a commemorative plaque to display. We will also make note of your school’s Elite status on the Showcase Schools web directory. Throughout the calendar year, your school will be eligible for hardware and software upgrades on select new SMART products as they come to market and professional development opportunities free of charge. As an Elite School, SMART may request that your school acts as the host site for a SMART event in 2012.

"Out of the more than 200 Showcase Schools in North America we are thrilled to consider your school among our 25 SMART Showcase Elite Schools for 2012."
Very exciting for our school and community!

SMART Board and Interactive links galore!

Each of us commit to our own professional growth every school year, and below, you will find many SMART Board Lesson links, web sites, tricks and tips below. Copy and Paste the urls into your browser and explore. Remember to bookmark your favorites!

FREE TECH TOOLS for teachers: http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/seppi99freetechtools

Greenwich schools SMART Board lessons portal: http://www.greenwichschools.org/page.cfm?p=5398

Cool things to use on the SMART Board - collection of links: http://mishicotteachers.pbworks.com/w/page/4129981/SMARTboard%20Resources

Waukesha Schools SMART Board lessons by course focus portal: http://www.waukeshaschools.com/WIT/smartboard/specificapps.htm

Long Beach Schools: Scroll down to find the multiple links for SMART Board lessons and files, listed by discipline: http://www.lbeach.org/resources/online_resources

University of Sioux Falls mega portal for all things SMART! all links are live:
http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/smartboard.htm

9-12 SMART Notebook Lessons: http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/longsmart_lhs.html

SMART Lesson Exchange: http://exchange.smarttech.com/

Albany Schools SMART Board links portal: http://www.albany.k12.or.us/departments/instruction/teacherresources.php?tab=7#TabbedPanels1

MATH SMART Board links - pages and pages of live links to lessons and web sites keyed to standards!: http://www.teachut3.utoledo.edu/cultivating/docs/Math%20resources%20for%20SMART%20Board.doc

SMART Board tips, links, and portal to related web sites: http://www.rce.k12tn.net/smartboard/smart%20board%20tools.htm

Teacher links: http://www.rce.k12tn.net/faculty.htm

Scholastic SMART Board activities and lessons: http://teacher.scholastic.com/whiteboards/socialstudies.htm

Eduscapes SMART Board tips, ideas, links: http://eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/ scroll down to access the many links!

Discovery Education 9-12: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-9-12-teacher-resources/index.cfm?campaign=flyout_teachers_912

SMART Board "Hotlist" all disciplines: http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listsmartboasb.html

MATH Manipulatives: http://www.ct4me.net/math_manipulatives.htm

MORE Math Manipulatives: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
SCIENCE resources: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/
Math and Science SMART lessons: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=190
fun powerpoints: http://www.edzone.net/~mwestern/funppt.html



Even more:
Scroll Down For SmartBoard Lessons
"Interactive Activity Search" will search and return relevant interactive and SMART resources specific to teaching and learning. Many (if not all) of the sites listed below get searched with this one tool.
A blog for this site is located at http://connect.nasboces.org/ontheweb/


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Notebook Software Lessons and Templates

Smart Education site - Thousands of Notebook lessons http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/
Smartboard lessons - Lexington, KY - 6-12 http://teach.fcps.net/trt27/smart_board_lessons.htm
Smartboard activities and lessons - Wichita School District http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm
Interactive whiteboard resources - Think Bank - United Kingdom http://www.think-bank.com/iwb/
Scholastic Smartboard lessons http://www.scholastic.com/interactivewhiteboards/

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Miscellaneous school district and university sites, links, interactive activities, Notebook lessons

Ginny Washburne's educational resources http://homepage.mac.com/gwashburne/FileSharing2.html
Khoi Trinh's educational resources http://homepage.mac.com/trinhk/FileSharing4.html
K-3 Smartboard sites http://www.juliethompson.com/SMART.html
Smartboard activity list - CREATE for Mississippi http://www.create.cett.msstate.edu/create/howto/Smartboard_Hotlist_MECA.pdf
Smartboard in the classroom - Eduscapes http://eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard
Interactive whiteboard resources - United Kingdom - k-6http://www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/whiteboards_main.html#Resources%20for%20Year%201
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - Secondary http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

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Interactive whiteboard resources

Amphitheater Public Schools http://www.amphi.com/departments/technology/whiteboard/
Smartboard activities - Bristol Valley Schoolshttp://www.bristolvaschools.org/mwarren/SBActivities.htm
Classroom resources for Smartboard technology - Lakeland Schools http://lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/SmartBoard/smart-resources.htm
Smartboard resources - Lee's Summit School District http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/smartboard.htm
Smartboard resources - Longneck Elementary School http://www.longneckelementary.com/sb.htm
Smartboard resources - Columbia School District http://teachers.columbia.k12.mo.us/emints/technology%20integration/smarttech.htm
Smartboard resources - Maine http://region6.mainelearns.org/SmartBoard.html
Smartboard resources - Plymouth WI School District http://www.plymouth.k12.wi.us/horizon/Teacher%20Resources/smart_board_resources.htm
Smartboard resources - Internet 4 Classrooms - Memphis http://www.internet4classrooms.com/smart_board.htm
Smartboard resources - East Carter Schools http://www.ecarter.k12.mo.us/dept/elementary/fourthgrade/ccrites/etipslesson1.html
Smartboard resources - Kentucky School for the Deaf http://www.ksd.k12.ky.us/TRT/smartboard.htm
Smartboard resource page - Albany Public Schoolshttp://www.albany.k12.or.us/departments/instruction/smartboardresourcepage.php
Syracuse University Center for Digital Literacy - Smartboard resources http://digital-literacy.syr.edu/resources/smartboard.shtml
Interactive Smartboard sites - University of Sioux Falls http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/smartboard.htm
Technology Tools - Jefferson County Tennessee http://www.jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/
Ideas, lesson plans, and websites by content area - Waukesha, WI school district http://www.waukesha.k12.wi.us/wit/smartboard/specificapps.htm

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Interactive Activities General Resources

k-8 math and reading games http://www.funbrain.com/
Quia - interactive games - share activities for free http://www.quia.com/web
Smartboard ideas - Rockingham Public Schools http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/howto/smartboard/lessons.htm
Make your own jigsaw puzzles http://jigsawplanet.com/
Interactive Whiteboard Resources - United Kingdom http://www.iwb.org.uk/

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Interactive Resources

United Kingdom http://www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx
Whiteboard Resources - United Kingdom http://bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm
K-6 Teaching Resources - United Kingdom http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/
High School WWW resources http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek4/
PBS - resources for all subject areas http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
BBC schools - English, Math, and Science resources and games http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/
Interactives - math, science, language, history, arts http://www.learner.org/interactives/
Oswego City School District - Instructional tools http://oswego.org/instructools_frmst.htm

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Literacy

Smartboard elementary literacy activities http://www.lm.havre.k12.mt.us/teachertools/smartboard/reading.htm
Elementary Language Arts - Interactive Online Stories http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/Audio_and_Text/http://www.starfall.com/http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/educational/onlinestory.htmhttp://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html#books

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Grammar

Purdue University Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/interact/index.html
Applied English Grammar on the Web http://hpbyrd.com/aegweb/toc.htm
The Language Project - Advanced English practice exercises http://www.languageproject.co.uk/free_exercises/advanced/advanced_exercises.php
Grammar Bytes exercises http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm

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Social Studies

Social Studies Online - k-8 interactive activities http://classroom.jc-schools.net/ss-units/index.html
Jamestown Adventure http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
A Colonial Family and Community http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/smartfun/colonial/intro/index.html
A Day in the Life - Colonial Williamsburg http://www.history.org/history/teaching/dayseries/webactivities/index.htm
History Matters - 9-12 U.S. survey course http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
The Library of Congress learning page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/
Gapminder global data http://www.gapminder.org
Integrated globe www.gapminder.org/
http://iceds.ge.ucl.ac.uk/viewer/iceds/index.html
Geohive global statistics http://www.xist.org/default1.aspx

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Science

Windows to the Universe - Science http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
Shodor - A national resource for computational science education http://www.shodor.org/
Jefferson County Schools - many 9-12 links http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/science-hs.html
Interactive Whiteboard Resources - United Kingdom - flash files http://www.woodlandgrange.leics.sch.uk/iwb/ks3science.htm
Scinet - secondary science interactive tutorials http://www.nelsonthornes.com/secondary/science/scinet/scinet/index.htm
Tech Topics - science tutorials http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/topics/index.html
Science Pages - interactive secondary resources - United Kingdom http://www.sciencepages.co.uk/keystage3/keystage3.php
Interactive science exercises - United Kingdomhttp://www.klbschool.org.uk/interactive/science/interindex.htm
Internet4Classrooms - biologyhttp://www.internet4classrooms.com/gateway_biology.htm
DNA from the beginninghttp://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/1/concept/
Interactive genetics quiz http://www.gig.org.uk/genetics-quz.htm
DNA workshop http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/
Virtual fruit fly lab http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/biol114/vfly1.asp
Human Anatomy Online http://www.innerbody.com/
Electric Heart - NOVA online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/
3D Brain Anatomy http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/index.html
Life's building blocks - interactive cells http://wsgfl2.westsussex.gov.uk/aplaws/intergames/sec_science/cells.swf
Resources for schools - interactive content http://www.abpischools.org.uk/page/teachers.cfm
Animal Diversity Web http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Virtual Courseware - life science, Earth science, environmental science http://www.sciencecourseware.org/
Amusement Park Physics - roller coaster http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/coaster.html
Activities in optics - online activities for students http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/activities/students/index.html

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Math

Math games - Cool Math 4 Kids http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - k-12 math manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
Shodor -
A national resource for computational science education

http://www.shodor.org/curriculum/
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/
NCTM Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org/
eMINTS virtual manipulatives http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000592.shtml
Educational Java programs http://www.arcytech.org/java/
Elementary interactive math dictionary http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html
Rainforest Math - k-6 http://www.rainforestmaths.com/
Algebra - Calculus applets http://www.analyzemath.com/
Math calculators - 9-12 http://www.ifigure.com/math/Math.htm
Calculus applets http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/dis/OHSICS/math/socha/calc.html
http://www.math.gatech.edu/~bourbaki/c1applets.html
http://www.math.utah.edu/~carlson/teaching/java/calculus/
http://math.bu.edu/people/paul/225/aapmt_talk.html
http://www.mph.net/coelsner/calcapps/
Gapminder global data - Statistics http://www.gapminder.org/
Geohive global statisticshttp://www.xist.org/default1.aspx
Interactive arithmetic lessons - k-8 http://www.aaamath.com/
Interactive games, flashcards, and more http://www.aplusmath.com/


Pathways to School Improvement is an online library of reports and educational research intended to put schools on the path to meeting their educational and improvement goals. http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs

Thirteen new resources have been added to the website that makes finding teaching resources from the federal government easier: http://www.ed.gov/free

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. http://scholar.google.com

FREE TECH TOOLS - THANKS Joey Savoy!

Looking for useful web sites with tools that teachers love?

Check out Joey Savoy's great Symbaloo collection of FREE TECH TOOLS for teachers: http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/seppi99freetechtools

"Get SMART" article in the Miami Herald's Back to School Living and Learning section 080711

The reporter and photographer from the Miami Herald visited during the April 2011 SMART Training days, and the article was published on Sunday, 8/7/11.
As you can see, the article highlights the value of SMART Technologies and the SMART Board using teachers at many schools in South Florida.
The next training sessions will be held at Columbus High September 12, 13 & 14 - go to (copy and paste the urls)
http://www.columbushs.com/smartraining_sep11.asp or go to http://smarttech.com/us/Resources/Training/Training+Search/SMART+Training+Programs/Event+Training/SMART+Notebook+Level+1+Training+Event
and choose Miami as the location.

There will also be training sessions at Columbus High in November...mark your calendar!