Social Studies and SMART
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SMART Notebook and SMART Response have many great tools for Math instruction, tools that will make your teaching more effective, more engaging, and more interactive. Beyond that, teaching becomes exponentially more powerful year to year as your digital resources become increasingly more accessible and more robust, through the building of the My Gallery folder, posted PDF and interactive .Notebook versions of your lessons, and videos that showcase the ideal examples, strategies, and explanations for the TEKS you address in class. Dig in!
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Ideas for Instruction
1. Use Page Recorder for recording the annotation process over maps or visuals (records only what you’re doing on screen w/in Notebook...but good for troop movements, trade routes, etc and can be combined with on screen text). Nice because these recorded pages can be placed wherever you’d like them within a Notebook file, and can be played and replayed by students. Export format: .Notebook file which can be opened in SMART Notebook (full version) or SMART Notebook Express (test this option as the express version is not as robust as an installed version). Bonus: Any page within notebook can be pulled in the My Gallery folder for anytime access from any .notebook file you have open
2. Use Recorder to record what you’re saying and doing on screen, both in SMART and outside of SMART...this is useful for anything that requires lots of explanation, or when explanation is most beneficial when closely coupled with on screen movement/annotations etc. You will need your own mic, a laptop with a built in mic, or to check out one of the 5 mics available for checkout from library
3. Use clickers (quick test key or printed Notebook file) to immediately grade homework as students come into class...then review/reteach as necessary. Sets tone/expectations and provides valuable data to take as a *grade or for formative assessment. * Use spinner to determine if daily clicker quizzes will be for a grade (perceived accountability) to get higher levels of engagement w minimal amount of data (gradebook) entry.
4. Use built in maps and annotate/crop to more closely align to your needs/goals/teaching...or pull in images from Google maps or other online map resources. For each one you crop or annotate to get just right, pull it into your My Gallery folder for anytime access from any .notebook file you have open
5. Use snipping tool (or smart capture) to grab questions from other sources with quick test key so you don’t have to retype/recreate anything but have benefit of having question right there to review alongside the data breakdown
6. While working out answers to questions, give students clickers and have them “ask a question” when they feel a mistake in the process is made
7. Use the clickers for guided practice, where you post a question, have the kids figure out the answers, then use that data to determine who begins working on the homework (they get it) and who you need to work with some more (they don’t get it yet)
8. Use clickers for determining how to prioritize unit reviews...have actual questions and analyze data or list topics and have students vote to determine which they have the most problems with...
9. Have students create lessons within SMART Notebook that illustrate a particular strategy or skill...they can even embed response questions to poll the class as they deliver their lesson (just create a new .teacher file for this purpose)
10. As part of your blog or digital newsletter (ask me about email center in School World), showcase a student recording that illustrates and explains best approaches to a particular type of problem
11. Have students use laptops and built in microphones or Asus and external mics (from library) to record math strategy showcase submissions: they record themselves completing a problem and explaining it as they go, then take the video file and send to you via their Dropbox account, Google Drive account, or a Dropittome you’ve set up. Then take the best of the best and share them on your website for unit review/six week review/STAAR test review that they can access on demand. You could include their name to give them kudos...and after uploading to YouTube, use Symbaloo, Lino, or Mural.ly to showcase the videos.
12. Use Activity Builder to create customized activities that test students’ ability to associate various images with particular events, historical figures, or geographic areas.
13. Use SMART Eduphoria Connector for common assessments and district benchmarks and never scan another bubble sheet!
14. Explore SMART Exchange and use their templates to save time! Geography, History, Social Studies
2. Use Recorder to record what you’re saying and doing on screen, both in SMART and outside of SMART...this is useful for anything that requires lots of explanation, or when explanation is most beneficial when closely coupled with on screen movement/annotations etc. You will need your own mic, a laptop with a built in mic, or to check out one of the 5 mics available for checkout from library
3. Use clickers (quick test key or printed Notebook file) to immediately grade homework as students come into class...then review/reteach as necessary. Sets tone/expectations and provides valuable data to take as a *grade or for formative assessment. * Use spinner to determine if daily clicker quizzes will be for a grade (perceived accountability) to get higher levels of engagement w minimal amount of data (gradebook) entry.
4. Use built in maps and annotate/crop to more closely align to your needs/goals/teaching...or pull in images from Google maps or other online map resources. For each one you crop or annotate to get just right, pull it into your My Gallery folder for anytime access from any .notebook file you have open
5. Use snipping tool (or smart capture) to grab questions from other sources with quick test key so you don’t have to retype/recreate anything but have benefit of having question right there to review alongside the data breakdown
6. While working out answers to questions, give students clickers and have them “ask a question” when they feel a mistake in the process is made
7. Use the clickers for guided practice, where you post a question, have the kids figure out the answers, then use that data to determine who begins working on the homework (they get it) and who you need to work with some more (they don’t get it yet)
8. Use clickers for determining how to prioritize unit reviews...have actual questions and analyze data or list topics and have students vote to determine which they have the most problems with...
9. Have students create lessons within SMART Notebook that illustrate a particular strategy or skill...they can even embed response questions to poll the class as they deliver their lesson (just create a new .teacher file for this purpose)
10. As part of your blog or digital newsletter (ask me about email center in School World), showcase a student recording that illustrates and explains best approaches to a particular type of problem
11. Have students use laptops and built in microphones or Asus and external mics (from library) to record math strategy showcase submissions: they record themselves completing a problem and explaining it as they go, then take the video file and send to you via their Dropbox account, Google Drive account, or a Dropittome you’ve set up. Then take the best of the best and share them on your website for unit review/six week review/STAAR test review that they can access on demand. You could include their name to give them kudos...and after uploading to YouTube, use Symbaloo, Lino, or Mural.ly to showcase the videos.
12. Use Activity Builder to create customized activities that test students’ ability to associate various images with particular events, historical figures, or geographic areas.
13. Use SMART Eduphoria Connector for common assessments and district benchmarks and never scan another bubble sheet!
14. Explore SMART Exchange and use their templates to save time! Geography, History, Social Studies
Resources
SMART Response - General Resources on Tech4Folks
SMART Playlist on Tech4Folks YouTube Channel (20+ videos!)
Getting to Know Your SMART Notebook Icons - Part 1
Getting to Know Your SMART Notebook Icons - Part II
SMART Notebook Express (view .notebook files online!)
SMART Product Code (for at home install)
SMART Training Resources (from SMART)
Heather Lamb's SMART Resources (Folks' SMART Guru)
SMART Virtual User Group Archived Recordings
SMART Classroom YouTube Channel
SMART Response Using Anonymous Mode
Setting Up Your Mic for SMART
Using SMART Recorder
Using SMART Response Eduphoria Aware Connector
Social Studies Resources on Pinterest (access off the LISD network!)
SMART Playlist on Tech4Folks YouTube Channel (20+ videos!)
Getting to Know Your SMART Notebook Icons - Part 1
Getting to Know Your SMART Notebook Icons - Part II
SMART Notebook Express (view .notebook files online!)
SMART Product Code (for at home install)
SMART Training Resources (from SMART)
Heather Lamb's SMART Resources (Folks' SMART Guru)
SMART Virtual User Group Archived Recordings
SMART Classroom YouTube Channel
SMART Response Using Anonymous Mode
Setting Up Your Mic for SMART
Using SMART Recorder
Using SMART Response Eduphoria Aware Connector
Social Studies Resources on Pinterest (access off the LISD network!)