SMARTBoards and Ad-free Resources - Volume 3

The final installment in my battle against educational resources that contain inappropriate advertisement will focus on interactive resources provided by education publishers.

This is a key topic since the educational field is quickly moving away from static textbooks to interactive and customizable media formats.  If the education publishers don't react quickly, they won't be part of the transition.

Here are a few education publishers who seem aware of this transition and are already providing exceptional interactive educational content for the classroom:

TES iboard Interactive Resources 

The TES Connect site is a social online network for teachers created by one of the largest educational publishers in the United Kingdom (TSL Education Ltd). Just recently, they acquired the resources from iboard and made them available free of charge. While they are included on the TES Connect website, you need to create an account first. To by-pass this step, you can go directly to the iboard Interactive Resources iboard player and select resources on the right side of the page. These activities are absolutely fantastic and they allow you to copy the activity links and save them in your bookmarks, blogs, or web pages.

Scholastic

I just wrote a detailed blog post about the amazing resources found on the Scholastic website. They seem to realize that the interactive whitebook is an effective tool if used appropriately. As a result, they have created an entire section dedicated to resources for the interactive whiteboard organized by subject matter. You can read my blog post for more information or you can just go there and start looking around.

Harcourt

This site actually contains a lot of great interactive resources. Unfortunately, they make it a little challenging to find the free resources.

I still recommend that you browse their site; however, I'll include some links to help you go directly to my favorite Math and Science resources on their site:

Science Up Close

Think Math!

I hope that more educational publishers start providing resources developed specifically for the interactive whiteboard. Unfortunately, the U.S. publishers seem torn between providing free content and providing subscription-based content.

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Comments

[anne marie]

Thanks for sharing these great posts (as usual!). I had not heard of the TES iBoard Interactive Resources- how amazing!! Learning about this resource made my day- the only "bad" thing is I have to wait until Monday to share with the teachers in my district!

[Leslie]

Thanks for the TES site! I didn't know about it despite being a member in a UK school! Being the IT person in school is great - I get to impress by passing on everything! Staff love me - I spend a weekend filling up the inbox in their email!!!

[Lisa]

Hi, Lisa from TES Resources here, I look after our teaching resources area and I'm really pleased to hear our much you like our iboard activities! We're always looking for teacher's reviews and testimonials so to get resources sent to your inbox free each week, please feel free sign up to TES.

Any questions, please just shout.

best,
Lisa

[kelliemojo@hotmail.com]

Thanks for sharing this great teaching resource. This is my first year teaching and I am always looking for ways to reach my students.

Thanks,
Kellie

[Leah]

Thank you for sharing these resources, especially the direct link to the Harcourt Think Math! website. I am also a new 6th grade math teacher, and this will work great in my classroom as it provides free recording worksheets to go along with the online activities! That way I can hold students accountable for the work and check their progress.