Written by James Hollis
Mr. Vizza has created a collection of Smart Notebook files to support various chapters of the Algebra Two text book. In addition, he’s made available an amazing library of Mathematical Notebook Galleries containing images, pages, and even a few flash animations! My favorite one is definitely the Formula Gallery.
I was playing around with the ArtPad from art.com and I find it a totally engaging experience. I love watching the playback of how someone else draws or paints. This site does a really good job allowing you to control playback of your own design or a design already contained in the gallery. The site is so simple to use and it works great on the Smart Board.
My friend Danny Nicholson from the UK has been an a roll lately recommending some amazing sites for teachers using interactive whiteboards. I wanted to share one of his recommendations called Super Math Worlds right away since the free trial period is coming to an end this month.
Here’s my Top Five List for best SMART Board Mathematics resource for 2008:
I recently sent a message to Danny Nicholson over at The Whiteboard Blog about the Teacher LED website to see if he had seen the site or knew the author. The author is a teacher from the UK named Spencer Riley and he has created an outstanding collection of resources perfect for the SMARTBoard interactive resources.
I have three sites related to Mathematics that work great on your SMARTBoard Interactive Whiteboard. These sites get my official “WOW” and they need to be in every teacher’s arsenal of resources.
I love solving the riddles, especially when they have a Mathematics twist. Here’s a really fun application to play on your SMARTBoard interactive whiteboard called “The Decanting Puzzle.” It’s a wonderful flash game that let’s you solve 6 different riddles related to filling and emptying jugs to come up with the right amount of water. The problem is that the jugs don’t having any markings on them. All you know is their capacity.
Teachers Love SMART Boards is about sharing resources and ideas. One reason the SMARTBoard and the Smart Notebook application are such great tools is that it helps inspire ways of making learning come alive. When teachers share ideas, that idea gets added to the knowledge-base and other teachers can build upon that knowledge to create something even more engaging and powerful.
Here’s a wonderful idea of how to incorporate Art and Mathematics shared by Valerie Byrnes. In her video, she is creating an original piece of “Jackson Pollock” art work from the JacksonPollock.org website. She then takes the picture and builds on the concept of acute angles.
Screencasts are a great digital learning tool for use in the classroom, especially on a SMART Board. I would like to share with you an outstanding resource for Math screencasts. The website is called MathTV and it currently has 19 screencasts that solve basic Math word problems.
I have two wonderful tools for teachers to use with their Smartboard interactive whiteboard related to plotting points.