Written by James Hollis
Taking attendance on the SMART Board has never been so much fun…and educational. To take attendance, students go to the Smartboard and touch on the pumpkin located below their name. A smiling pumpkin will appear and it will greet the student with a cheerful “hello” using a different language. The activity contains “hello” in 17 different languages. […]
This is indeed an exciting time as lots of teachers around the world are returning to the classroom for the start of a new year. It is indeed a wonderful world!
Keeping in theme, I thought I would share a two resources. The first is one of the most beautiful videos I’ve seen called “What A Wonderful World With David Attenborough.” It’s a video produced by the BBC One channel and it’s absolutely mesmerizing.
Halloween Clip Art (updated) I have compiled an extensive collection of Halloween-related clip art so you don’t have to spend time looking all over the Internet. Games Hangman - Fun graphics, more advanced word list. (3 stars) Halloween Hangman - Good, simple hangman game for Halloween (3 stars) Halloween Pairs Game - Zoomable and very […]
I’ve spent years reviewing and sharing interactive online resources that work great on a SMART Board. To be honest, I’m very picky on what resources I share and I require all the sites I share to have certain minimum standards. One site that meets and exceeds all my standards is Textivate.com. What I like most […]
You’ll love this Halloween-related vocabulary activity containing three different word search puzzles. To make the word search puzzles more exciting, each one has a riddle to solve. To solve the riddle, students need to highlight all the words in the puzzle using the Highlighter Pen. The answer to the riddle can be found by putting […]
It’s finally here! I’ve been extremely excited for some time now about introducing a new resource for teachers called The Notebook Gallery. I believe it is and will continue to be the most valuable resource available for Teachers Who Love SMART Boards! A while back, I was asked to participate in a new project to […]
As the school year comes to an end, I want to say thank you to all the teachers who work so hard every single day (and night) to help develop and nurture the children in their care. Trust me, I know from experience that being a good teacher is by far the most challenging job […]
Finding interactive sites for the Social Studies classroom can be a challenge, so I popped over to Free Technology for Teachers to see if I could find something fun. What I found was an amazing site called 10×10 that displays a 10×10 grid containing 100 thumbnail images that relate to the most discussed current events. […]
Some online resources help make the decision to have an interactive whiteboard in the classroom an easy one. When you use an IWB to see and interact with a resource like National Geographic’s MapMaker 1-Page Maps, it’s difficult to justify “not” having an Interactive Whiteboard. This interactive map resource allows you to explore in detail different areas of the world. All you do is select a region of the world and then select a country. It even includes more detailed views of the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
In all my workshops, I find that I never miss an opportunity to recommend the WatchKnow website for finding educational videos for the classroom. This is also a great place to locate videos that you may want to download and incorporate into a Notebook lesson file.