Written by James Hollis
Finding primary-level spelling activities that look good and work great on the SMART Board is not always easy. I think you’ll find these two Internet activities are an exception. The first activity called Spin and Spell is an incredibly engaging activity that would be especially effective in the ESL classroom since it uses images and verbal pronunciations of all the […]
I’ve been utilizing a new activity they have call Spell a Picture. It’s such an incredible learning tool for the classroom and it’s highly engaging. Your students will be begging to come to the SMART Board to spell out words.
I am in awe of one of the latest entries into Word Cloud Generators called Tagxedo. The options for creating word clouds are simply incredible and best of all, the site makes it very easy to save your work as an image file without the need to "capture" your work. The flash-based results are a […]
These two amazing Notebook lessons for the SMART Board were created by two amazing teachers, Becky Arnett and Sherri Fricker. These two lessons are very special to me because each one utilized techniques found in the courses from Teacher Online Training. As a matter of fact, Becky’s “Writing Prompts” lesson was the grand prize winner of the SMART Exchange Contest Challenge.
SpellingCity recently won the honor of being “SMART Board Ready” as they’ve revamped all of their activities to work by touching or dragging objects. They’re also in the process of revising all their games so they can be displayed in full-screen!
I recently responded to a question on the SMART Exchange Forum in reference to good Spelling resources for your SMARTBoard. Since I found myself playing around with SpellingCity for half an hour, I thought it earned it’s own blog post. The SpellingCity site lets teachers easily create their own spelling lists and then students can practice improving their spelling skills online.