[MOSAIC] Using Smartboard to Promote Comprehension

[Pam Cook]

I am in a media center in NC where we have a SmartBoard!  (Yea!!)  I use it for a variety of things, including planned lessons.  It is nice to work on a MSWord document, leaving blank spaces for student responses, and then transferring it via a memory stick or flash drive to the laptop connected to the SmartBoard.  We even have the option of saving our hand-printed responses into the document.
 
~   Another use of the SmartBoard is to access interactive websites from the internet.  Students can use the touch screen feature to navigate through the websites.  
~   I have prepared PowerPoint presentations (picturing the NC Children's Book Award books & summary) to play continuously (in a loop) throughout a time span during the day so that students can view the books on that list and read the summary.  
~I particularly like the lessons where students respond by writing on the board.  We can manipulate responses, erase, etc. to those responses so that the entire group can see.  I realize that sounds like a glorified overhead projector, but it is much better since it has the option of saving their responses.
 
These are a few of the ways we use this resource.  It is awesome!
 
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From: mosaic-bounces at literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Caudill, Amanda
Sent: Wed 3/7/2007 10:26 AM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Listserv
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Using Smartboard to Promote Comprehension



I also would love some ideas on this for reading...i just acquired an
airliner...and I would love some lesson ideas....all these things seem
like glorified overheads...please enlighten me

Harrison County Middle School
amanda.caudill at harrison.kyschools.us
sixth grade reading teacher


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From: mosaic-bounces at literacyworkshop.org
[mailto:mosaic-bounces at literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of Christine Ann
Mathews
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 8:31 AM
To: mosaic at literacyworkshop.org
Subject: [MOSAIC] Using Smartboard to Promote Comprehension

Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of researching and learning about Smartboard. I am 
curious to learn about how any of you have incorporated it into your 
reading instruction or seen it incorporated. I am specifically 
interested in learning about how Smartboard is used to promote 
comprehension.

Last year, I saw a fourth grade teacher incorporate Smartboard in her 
literacy centers. The students were divided into three groups, each of 
which had a ?teacher of the week.? When the students arrived at the 
Smartboard station, the ?teacher? led the discussion on sort words 
with prefixes and suffixes. There were several prefixes and suffixes 
at the bottom page, and the students had to match a root word to the 
correct prefix of suffix. For example, ?complete? was a root word and 
the students decided that it would go under the ?in? prefix column 
rather than the ?un? column.

I know that Smartboard can be used for just about anything, but I 
would love to learn about what any of you have found to be successful 
or not worth trying. I plan on creating several lessons that can 
potentially be used in the classroom.

Thanks!
Christine



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