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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Smartboards as art boards
I don't have experience using a Smartboard. But I have used a computer & projector for the art classes I taught for years. Besides showing examples of artworks, what other benefits have you found by using a Smartboard in your art class?
I use it to add movement to art in the form of active participation. Students are able to come up to the "touch sensitive" board and interact with this in just the same way they would do from the keyboard. What ever is clickable with the mouse, is clickable with the hand on the smartboard. It has software built in with 100 of lessons based on standards from all grade levels, and cross-curriculur concepts. I use it to visit virtual museums and tour sites based on cultural units of study. Students can use the pen stylus and write on the board in response to q&a during daily discussions. I have also had students to volunteer to come up and show the class how they drew something. The only drawback is that while drawing the others may have difficulty seeing, but once the person is done, it is seen clearly, can be magnified and saved on my laptop for further use. I have a microphone, and I have students create narrations on slide shows and e-books. They produce the art, I photograph and upload it, they type their sentences, I place them in their stories, then we record the narration and play it back. This past semester we used the smartboard for e-books and African Folk tales. Each class that did this got a cd for their classroom with students images and voices reading their stories and folktales. There is still so much to be learned about this technology. Thanks for asking. Sheila
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I use it to add movement to art in the form of active participation. Students are able to come up to the "touch sensitive" board and interact with this in just the same way they would do from the keyboard. What ever is clickable with the mouse, is clickable with the hand on the smartboard. It has software built in with 100 of lessons based on standards from all grade levels, and cross-curriculur concepts. I use it to visit virtual museums and tour sites based on cultural units of study.
Students can use the pen stylus and write on the board in response to q&a during daily discussions.
I have also had students to volunteer to come up and show the class how they drew something.
The only drawback is that while drawing the others may have difficulty seeing, but once the person is done, it is seen clearly, can be magnified and saved on my laptop for further use.
I have a microphone, and I have students create narrations on slide shows and e-books. They produce the art, I photograph and upload it, they type their sentences, I place them in their stories, then we record the narration and play it back. This past semester we used the smartboard for e-books and African Folk tales. Each class that did this got a cd for their classroom with students images and voices reading their stories and folktales.
There is still so much to be learned about this technology.
Thanks for asking.
Sheila
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