Smart New Ways to Use Interactive Whiteboards

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Technology Combined With Good Teaching Leads to Success
Heather Wolpert reports on Robert Marzano’s research which finds that student achievement rises when interactive whiteboards are combined with effective teaching strategies.

Online Interactive Whiteboards
 Kelly Walsh compares four Web-based interactive whiteboards: Scribblar, Dabbleboard, Skrbl, and ImaginationCubed.

Great K-3 Smartboard Sites
Julie Thompson provides numerous links to K-3 math and language arts sites with high quality content to use on SmartBoards..

Interactive Internet Resources
Colleen McClain lists numerous interactive K-12 Web sites which work well with SmartBoards

Interactive Whiteboard Games
This site contains high quality collaborative and engaging educational games for PreK-5 that are well-suited to being used with an interactive whiteboard.

Maximizing Your SmartBoard With Smart Tools
The Kenton County (KY) School District site contains numerous SMARTBoard resources including downloadable templates.

Lee’s Summit SMARTBoard Resources
The Lee’s Summit (MO) School District site is notable for its large collection of interactive Website links as well as downloadable SMART notebook lessons for K-12.

Tech Tip: Print What You Like

Here’s a quick paper-saving solution for “difficult-to-print” Web pages. Format any web page for printing by using the free online tool Print What You Like.  It removes ads, widgets and other unwanted items so you get a much “cleaner” copy to print. The three steps to use this tool are:

  1. Go to the Print What You Like site and type in the URL of a page you’d like to print, then click the Start button.
  2. Edit the page properties by using the handy sidebar tool to remove unwanted items and edit font size.
  3. Print the page or save it in PDF or HTML format to print later.

Online Course Spotlight

Instructional Applications of Digital Photography
EDUC 744 928
October 5 – November 27, 2009

3 semester hours graduate credit
Instructor: Alicia Mundt
Explore how digital photography can develop 21st century skills within your existing curriculum!

What Our Students are Saying….

“Applying digital photography as a cross -curriculum strategy can be used to engage students in all content areas. Digital storytelling provides an effective student-centered learning activity.  Anyone interested in adding a powerful teaching strategy to his or her repertoire should consider this course.”
~Technology Educator, Kenosha, WI

Final Call for Classes Starting in October

EDUC 744 914 Methods of Teaching Middle School Math (Grades 4-8) begins October 5
EDUC 744 928 Instructional Applications of Digital Photography begins October 5
EDUC 744 925 Bullying in Schools begins October 6
EDUC 744 957 Differentiation in the Classroom begins October 12
EDUC 761 900 Collaborative Communities in E-learning begins October 12
EDUC 744 967 Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders begins October 19
EDUC 744 968 Global Awareness and Collaboration across the Curriculum begins October 26

Participate from your home computer; no travel to campus is required.
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University of Wisconsin - Stout
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