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February 3, 2022

1. Sign in, stowe your other devices, and log into a Chromebook. Complete the While You Are Waiting (WYAW) activities (including attendance!)
   
   
2. Some cool tools:
• Works like the Flippity Quiz Show game aka digital Jeopardy! https://www.playfactile.com/
• Another virtual IWB: Whiteboard Fi https://whiteboard.fi/ (formative assessment alert!)
  
  
3. How you can use your IWB to support instruction?
   
• Presentations, digital slide shows
• Bring up a map and show a route and have the students describe using N.S.E.W. directions
• Focus or zoom in on a visual (e.g. Science, Social Studies) using the magic pen option
• Brainstorming ideas and/or creating concept maps (mindmeister on the IWB)
• Put up a writing sample on the board and use highlighter, etc. tools to edit/revise
• Use the "record" feature to make a short movie to demonstrate steps in solving a complex math problem
• Reviewing material and using the board to reinforce content knowledge (e.g. Jeopardy)

PROCEDURAL/PRODUCTIVITY

• As morning check in for kids to do attendance, lunch count, and weather.
  
• Save lessons to present to students who were absent
• Prepare "substitute lesson plans" on a day you have to be gone
  
  
4. EFFECTIVE Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Lessons are instructionally sound and interactive!
   
   
   • PEDAGOGIAL INTERACTION - kids actively involved in: Discussion, Collaboration, Question-posing, etc.
     
     
   • TECHNICAL INTERACTION - kids physically touching the board and manipulating objects
     
     
   • DEMO: Second Grade Geometry (Digital and "Vintage" Manipulatives)
     
     
5. Some interactives that take advantage of the options that the IWB offers - works on all "flavors" Interactives to try.....

   INTERACTIVES: These are websites that take advantage of the interactivity of an IWB but are not from within the IWB's particular software
   SMART = Notebook software and .notebook
   PROMETHEAN ActivBoard = ActivInspire and .flipchart

   • Mathematics Interactives http://www.teacherled.com/iresources/numeracybasics/?resource=isometric
   • Some work better than others: http://www.teacherled.com/legacy-interactive-whiteboard-resources/
   • Story Starters Interactive: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/index.html
   • Create a character: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/
     
     
   • http://archive.learner.org/interactives/
     
   • From: https://www.learner.org/classroom-resources/
     • https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-spelling-bee/ (elementary)
     • https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-elements-of-a-story/ (elementary)
     • https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-geometry-3d-shapes/ (upper elementary, middle grades)
     • https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-amusement-park-physics/ (upper elementary, middle grades)
     • https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-rock-cycle/ (upper elementary)
     • https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-dynamic-earth/ (upper elementary, middle grades) *
     • https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-us-history-map/ (upper elementary)
       
       
   • http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/
   • https://www.geogebra.org/
     
   • http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/
     
   • http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1373
     
   • https://stormedapps.co.uk/
   • https://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&type=ac
     (some free content, most required paid membership to NCTM)
   • https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/resources/apps
     
     
     
6. What do teachers do? They modify or just use existing .notebook (SMARTboard) and .flipchart (Promethean/Active Board) files to meet the needs of their students, curriculum, and their teaching style but rarely start from scratch because:
   
   
• Teachers are BUSY people
  
  
• There are a huge number of lessons already created you can use (for free!)
  • Promethean Activboard .flipchart lessons: https://prod.classflow.com/classflow/#!/login/teacher
  • SMART Board .notebook lessons: https://exchange.smarttech-prod.com/
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7. IWB in the time of covid: You can deliver instruction via the students' devices using existing notebook and flipchart lessons.
• Lumio is a free service/tool where you can store IWB lessons for remote teaching: https://legacy.smarttech.com/en/lumio
  Let's try this!
  Go to http://hellosmart.com and use class ID: 636 304
  
  
8. YOUR TURN! Break up into EVEN groups of FOUR (4) and explore using the IWB with interactives. Notice the list of Flippity games! Make sure each person gets a turn. Interactives to try.....
   
   
9. IWB Redeux: Choose a Factile game from the links below and play on the board in teams. Take turns being the teacher to interact with the board.
   • Multiplication Tables https://www.playfactile.com/multiply102
   • Vocabulary https://www.playfactile.com/bhseslreview
   • American History https://www.playfactile.com/projectwowhistory
   • Life and Earth Science https://www.playfactile.com/milahn