I recently presented a workshop on web-based insruction at a private school in Ohio. Some of the teachers use Smart Boards, and they wanted to know how the class web site might augment their use of the Smart Board.
I leaped at this question like a hungry lion pouncing on its prey. The web-based classroom is a perfect mate for the Smart Board, which links to your computer and allows you to put anything on a large computerized white board, through a projector.
You can place anything on your classroom web site. Hence, you can put anything that is on your site directly onto your Smart Board to show to your class. You might begin with clicking to your activities page and beaming the days agenda onto your Smart Board. Next, you may have a PowerPoint presentation that you’ve uploaded to your site. Rather than inserting a disk or a thumb drive or searching around your hard drive for your presentation, you simply click a link to it which is on your class site, which is already shining proudly onto your Smart Board.
The Smart Board and the Paperless Classroom are a match made in cyberheaven!
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