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board combines the best features of both. Create a graphic organizer template on the interactive whiteboard then have your students come to the board to enter information into the various sections of the graphic organizer. When done, save it on the computer, print it out for distribution, or make it available for downloading on your school or classroom Web site or blog. Collaboration on complicated math problems becomes much easier to follow when done with a whiteboard. play with the board’s writing tools. • Another example is Google Lit Trips (www.GoogleLit Trips.com), a Google Earth add-on that provides tours IMAGE COURTESY OF SMART TECHNOLOGIES. of great literary journeys, including those taken in John SmartBoard software it’s called Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, “screen shade”; in Mimio, “reveal”). Homer’s The Odessey, Blood Meridian Use this feature to create quizzes and by Cormac McCarthy, and Virgil’s games, with questions on the screen The Aeneid. Each trip includes and answers hidden. Make the prophotographs, chapter-specific quesject into a quiz-show game, and tions about the book, and links to include audio and video to add more Web sites about the author and of a multimedia element. For an the book. Using this resource entertaining animal-riddle game, crewith an interactive whiteboard, or ated by elementary school students, having your students develop their go to http://technology.usd259 own similar project, is another .org/resources/cip/. A riddle game example of higher-order use. such as this promotes and reinforces Presentations Presentations using software such as PowerPoint or KeyNote take on new life when shown on an interactive whiteboard. You can dim screens to create a spotlight effect on a particular graphic you’d like to highlight. Or you can mark up a presentation as it runs—draw circles or arrows or use a highlighter for emphasis. Save the marked up notes on your computer to print out or share on a Web page. Interactive Software Create hands-on, interactive lessons where students can manipulate objects, make decisions, and enter data. Another idea is to place map pieces (say, states of the union, or countries of Europe) on the screen and have students drag and drop then to create the complete map (see http://teach.fcps.net/trt27/ SocialStudies.htm for this one). Interactive Mathematics The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (http://enlvm.usu.edu/ ma/nav/index.jsp) is exactly as the name implies, a library of virtual, onscreen mathematics manipulatives for students of all grade levels. For example, “Count the Money” is a K–2 activity in which students count up coins and bills on the screen, moving them around, grouping them as needed. Done on an interactive whiteboard the activity becomes a more meaningful group exercise. Smart Technologies also has a host of lessons, including a seventh-gradelevel example of the Pythagorean Theorem, where students solve puzzles in order to illustrate and verify the theorem. authentic writing and elements of higher-order thinking. Jeffrey Branzburg is a contributing editor and columnist for T&L. Get Your Tips Published Do you have some great integration tips on any school subject? Submit them to techlearning_editors@nbmedia.com for possible publication in T&L. Google Earth Combine an interactive whiteboard with cutting-edge software such as Google Earth to provide an unparalleled experience in geography. With Google Earth you can “fly” to any destination in the world; combine this with an interactive whiteboard to create tours worldwide. • The TICT Initiative (Technology Integration Collaborative Teachers) in Minnesota has used Google Earth with its interactive whiteboard to create birds-eye views of its school district, in addition to being able to mark-up the dis- Lessons Learned Manufacturers of interactive whiteboards frequently offer lessons and activities on their Web sites. A sampling of companies includes: Dukane (www.dukcorp.com) Interwrite Learning (www.interwritelearning.com) Luidia (www.luidia.com) Mimio (www.mimio.com) Numonics (www.numonics.com) PolyVision (www.polyvision.com) Promethean (www.prometheanworld.com/us) Smart Technologies (smarttech.com) Quizzes and Games Some interactive whiteboard software can hide portions of the screen, to be revealed at your discretion (in the Technology & Learning September 2007 | 39 http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com http://technology.usd259.org/resources/cip/ http://technology.usd259.org/resources/cip/ http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/index.jsp http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/index.jsp http://teach.fcps.net/trt27/SocialStudies.htm http://teach.fcps.net/trt27/SocialStudies.htm http://www.dukcorp.com http://www.interwritelearning.com http://www.luidia.com http://www.mimio.com http://www.numonics.com http://www.polyvision.com http://www.prometheanworld.com/us http://smarttech.com

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