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Smartboard Notebook Lessons

If you're a reader of my blog, you know my motto is Sharing is Caring. Marcia Jeans, Instructional Technology Specialist for Wichita Public Schools, takes this wonderful concept to a new level by sharing her Smart Notebook resource page with other teachers. She posted the link to these resources on the SMART Exchange Forum.

Don't forget that Smart Technologies has a treasure trove of Notebook lessons for you to download and use in the classroom.

Happy New Year!

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Smartboard Video Resources

It's time to start up the presses again here at Teachers Love SMART Boards. I hope everyone had a great holiday!

The wonderful people from Smart Technologies have started building a video library on YouTube. It is a great idea and I'm sure this will become a great resource. In addition to their videos, you can also find various training videos on my YouTube site. If you're looking for a quick video demonstration on how to use your SMART Board, let me know; I can usually put something together in a few minutes. I think video training is a great tool for learning.

Here's a fun training video that demonstrates how to add a YouTube video into your SMART Notebook software. This video uses a Firefox add-on called DownloadHelper to capture the YouTube video. If you're not using Firefox then I recommend using Zamzar to capture YouTube videos to your harddrive. I'm sure other people can recommend various ways to do this.

                                       

Launch in external player

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SMARTBoard Christmas Holiday Resources Page

I have created a separate page of all the Christmas Holiday Resources found on my blog so you don't have to search around my blog. After you go to the page, you can also bookmark the page for future reference or add the page to your favorite social bookmarking site.

My family and I wish all my readers a very Merry Christmas!

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SMART Boards and Holiday Fun #5

I have three holiday files to share with you.

The first is Christmas Carol notebook file created by my Twitter friend Rachel that contains picture clues for students to use to guess the names of popular Christmas Carols.

The second is a Christmas Letters notebook file that has all the letters in the alphabet created in a holiday motif. I got the pictures from the Christmas Alphabet website and copied the pictures to a Notebook file so you could use them easily.

The last file is a storyboard of Twas the Night Before Christmas. This could be a great activity to print or have the kids come up and draw on your SMART Board.

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SMART Boards and Holiday Fun #4

If you were looking for another great Christmas game to play on your Smartboard, look no further. Here's a holiday flash-based game called Snow Line.

In this multi-level game, you have to use your logic to draw a snow line for Santa to pick up all the presents. Maybe I'm just a kid at heart but I really had fun playing this game!

Remember to use this game for educational purposes only.

This game is Smart Board tested and Hollis approved!

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Twelve Days of Christmas

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The original members of Straight No Chaser perform their comedic version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" at the Musical Arts Center, Bloomington, Indiana. December 7th, 1998.

This could be a lot of fun to show on your SMART Board. It's absolutely brilliant!

I couldn't resist putting this up on my blog.

Enjoy!

SMART Boards and Holiday Fun #3

Thank you to everyone who has sent in website recommendations for Christmas. I've taken the time to go through the sites and find activities that would be work well on the SMARTBoard. Here are additional websites for the younger kids that work great with your Smartboard:

Snowflake Designer: I know of a few really good sites that allow you to create an online snowflake. This site lets you do that but it also has step-by-step instruction for doing this with an actual sheet of paper. (This site is perfect for the Smartboard. My 6 year old loves it!!!!

Here are two interactive counting games for Kindergarten and 1st grade students (4 through 6 year olds). The first one is called Christmas Tree Count and the second is Santa Count. Both work great on the Smartboard and have some neat features to help organize numbers.

For the private schools, here's a great story-telling website for beginner readers that tells the story of Jesus.

Here are two more fun games for the primary grade students that you'll have to work hard to find any educational value. The first activity let's kids put Rudolf back together; the second one let's you build a snowman. What the heck, it's Christmas!

Thank you to everyone who has contributed suggestions. Please visit the priestsic delicious site that has all of these resources and much more.  While not all the Christmas resources are suited for the SMART Board, there is a lot of great stuff to use for the holiday season. Thanks to my friend Tom from across the pond for sharing this wonderful resource!

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SMART Boards and Holiday Fun #2

Just in case you haven't had the opportunity to read the comments left here, I want to share with you a web site that has four fun Christmas activities for your SMARTBoard. The activities are once again more suitable for the younger students; however, the hilarity of the Reindeer Orchestra with make you laugh at any age. Once again, you'll have to be creative to find educational value here but I know it can be done! :0)

I'll be putting more fun holiday links here during the day and the remainder of the week so check back often.

Thanks Karen for putting these links together and sharing them with others!

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SMART Boards and Holiday Fun #1

The holiday season is here so I thought I would help teachers locate some fun holiday Christmas activities for their Smartboard. The first activities are for primary grade students.

Here's a fun little game where the students can build their own snowman. You'll have to be creative to find any educational value in this one. That's okay, it's still fun!

Here's a wonderful activity from Starfall called Ten Little Snowmen. This activity not only helps the young kids to read, it also let's them build a snowman along the way.

Here's one more activity that's a lot of fun. It's a sliding Santa puzzle perfect for the Smartboard.

I'll be posting more SMART Board holiday activities as we count down to Christmas!

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