My project did not turn out anything like I had hoped. I spent our class time in June watching tutorials and finding useful "notebooks" that I could adapt to use in my classroom. At this point, I have only used SMART Board in my classroom at the beginning of the year to "get kids up and give them something to "play" with."
Kids really enjoyed using it, but then it was in the way of my white boards so I took it down. Later, when thinking about the time I had to make up for the September class I was going to miss, I created an interactive Maine Map review. It works, it is completely interactive, but it would be more user-friendly if kids had the software on their own computer, instead of just one or two kids using the SMART Board. I'm thinking that maybe it would be great to use as a station...
Looking forward, the next time I want to make an interactive review, I hope it won't take as long as it did the first time. I also hope to use the Jeopardy and game show reviews as well as the Balancing Chemical Equations notebook. Ideally, I would like to use Portfolio time or Flex time to find notebooks and/or adapt ones to my curriculum, but with our new curriculum, all that time is spoken for. For now, it will just have to stay at the forefront of my mind, while actually on the back burner.
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