Smart Classrooms

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What is a Smart Classroom?

Smart Classrooms are classrooms that use a white-board sized touch-screen display device in conjunction with a projector and a centralized "Smart Cabinet". It allows an all new teaching method, being able to have a TV, DVD player, and computer at the teacher's finger tips and being able to display all the different media to the entire classroom.

We use SMARTBoards for our classrooms and use the SmartNotebook for Educational purposes. Students are able to be up at the SMARTBoard and interact with curriculum that the teacher has created or downloaded that pertains to topics being taught.

Examples of Use

• Presentations
  • The Technology Department uses the Smartboard technology to give presentations to classes and buisness meetings. People are able to be up at the board, interacting with their data, and talk to the audience, rather than being behind a computer. Giving a more personalized expierence.

• Classes
  • Math
    • Teachers are able to have pre-written problems up on the SMARTBoard, and have kids come up and solve the problems. After the day's work, the Notebook can be saved to a PDF or JPG file and then uploaded onto the web that students can see from home.
  • Science
    • Interactive cirriculum allows for hands-on expiramentation, such as thermastat reading, for gradeschool children, the teacher can set the thermostat at a certain tempature, and then the children will come up to the board and write the tempature.
  • Reading
    • Highlight and lowlight paragraphs, or use the shade to help kids focus on certain paragraphs. With the digital books up on the board, all students will see where the class is, and be able to read from the board.
  • Writing
    • Use the on-board writing technology and the lined-paper stationary of the Notebook to help students write. It can then be saved to the web or printed out for children to show to their parents.
  • Critical Thinking
    • There are many Notebook Cirriculums that make critical thinking a must.

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