Welcome to Pima County Regional Support's Training

Priorities:  Not SMART & Board
Our points of emphasis today are on the effective use of interactive whiteboards as a tool for instruction; promoting practices that make use of the tool not only for visual reinforcement like a PowerPoint, but as a tool for helping students grasp concepts in a variety of ways and think, for organizing your resources, collaborating with others, and improving instruction  Why use an interactive WhiteBoard?  Just ask Robert Marzano.

Best Practices

• Moving away from being the Sage on the Stage
• Methods of Active Participation
• Classroom Configuration
  
• Using the board to enhance media

Avoiding Building a Better Mousetrap - use the work of others!

• SMARTTech Educator Lessons, Ideas and Collaboration Download Notebook files here and adapt them for your needs
• ITunes - tutorials on software and effective application. Play them on your computer or move them to your mp3 player
• AudioPodcasts
• VideoPodcasts

Resources to Use with Your Board

• Thinkfinity (Verizon Foundation Site for Educators, Students & Parents)
• Our favorite interactives
  
• IDEAL (AZ Dept of Ed's Site for Educators)
• Discovery Streaming
• Videos & Other Resources
• Teacher Center
• Atlas
• Educator Network
• Math Active (from ASSET)
  
• Recipes4Success

• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (Math)
• Our Wiki of Resources and Research
  

Games that Make You Think (links to our wiki on logic games)

• Launchball
• Magic Pen
• Line Rider
• Scratch

AGENDA:
K-2 Teachers & Some Specialists will be creating a wiki page to house resources for students to access at home and organize teacher's favorite sites.  Example page click here.

3-8 Teachers will participate in the Interactive Whiteboard Training (Agenda in Left Column)


Spreadsheet for Form

Graphic Summary of Results