SMARTboard+activities

Lesson Ideas:
[|SMARTboard search engine]: This is a google-type search engine dedicated to SMARTboard activities. You can type in a topic like "math" and it will give you a list of sites that suggest SMARTboard lessons. Some of the sites have the lessons on them, some direct you to other sites.

[|Math Graph]: This is an interactive graph you can use for simple bar graph activities.

[|SMARTboard Lessons websites]: This is a list of websites compiled by a teacher. It is organized by subject and gradelevel.

[|Topmarks Educational Search Engine]: This website from the UK has links to websites for elementary students. It is organized on a graph at the top and when you click on different parts of the graph you can see varying lesson options below.

[|SMARTer SMARTboard Use]: This is another webpage filled with links to various interactive whiteboard activities. Lots of links to be found here.

[|Chalkboard]: This is a website that allows you to just draw with a pen. It's like a blank notebook page but it is NOT a "SMARTboard" technology project so you could use it with anything (including a home-made interactive whiteboard...)

Technical Stuff:
[|Smarttech]: This is the SMART Technologies official webpage. Products and information is available on this website, along with some downloadable items. Read carefully to see which are free and which have only a free trial period.

[|How to connect the SMARTboard]: This is a pdf file which tells you (and includes pictures) of how to set up and use your SMARTboard.

[|How to create your own interactive whiteboard]: This is a site that has a couple of videos of how a very clever person at a university created his own interactive white board for a fraction of the cost. You cannot use the SMARTboard Notebook software (it is copyrighted to be used only on SMARTboard products) on a home-made whiteboard, but you could use other sites.

[|Discussion Board]: This is just a discussion about whiteboards and their uses in the classroom. Not all of the info is helpful to PK teachers, but it does have some interesting links in some of the comments. And you might get a few ideas of how others use the interactive whiteboards.