ICT 4 ELT Portals

Smartboards in School Practice

All the material was gathered by
PhDr. Hana Pospíšilová,
teacher at the Secondary Technical School
and Secondary Vocational School of Informatics and Telecommunications,
Brno.

This webpage is planned to help the teachers who would like to use smartboards in their language lessons. It contains links intended for teachers.

• Reasons for using the smartboard in teaching

  http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Boards/default.htm

  This website contains the reasons why the teachers use smartboards and why they should use it, and the information about the first interactive white boards.

• New technologies for smartboards

  http://www.smarttech.com/

  The description of new technologies and downloadable software for smartboards.

• Ideas for using of smartboards

  http://www.d131.kane.k12.il.us/Bardwell/smartboard.html

  The ways how the smartboard can be used as a computer. Several alternatives how to use smartboard and training centre for teachers applying the smartboard. Real ideas of using it.

• Usage of smartboard in different subjects

  http://www.eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/

  The next ways of using smartboards in different subjects – maths, physics, geography etc. Usage of hyperlinks and other ways of transferring material to students.

• Do's and don'ts for usage the smartboard

  http://cot.emich.edu/smartboard_usage.htm

  Do's and don'ts for using smartboards. How do American teachers in Eastern Michigan University use smartboards.

• Planning of the lesson for smartboards

  http://199.104.212.140/lesson_detail.cfm?lid=35

  Description of plans language lessons while using the smartboard. Various lesson plan handouts.

• Smartboard training online

  http://www.smarttech.com/trainingcenter/online/index.asp

  Smartboard training centre online. You can get to know how to use your interactive white board in lessons at school.

• Information for Smartboard Users

  http://cardiffschools.net/%7Eroelmann/whiteboard/smart2.html

  Interactive whiteboard resources. Important notes for smartboard users.

• Smartboard activities

  http://www.bristolvaschools.org/mwarren/SBActivities.htm

  Various activities provided by using a smartboard. Ideas for downloading music, several webquests, computer labs etc. Interactive internet resources.

• Ideas for busy teachers

  http://client.canterbury.ac.uk/gii/re/resources/default.htm

  Resources which give you ideas and a great amount of materials to support your needs when having less time.

• Practising language

  http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/sahuaro/smartboard/

  Smartboard resources for language learning and maths. Various types of tests including the grammar tests.

• Cross curricular web resources

  http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm

  Interactive websites providing cross curricular web resources. You can find a great amount of texts and pictures for teaching subjects including English by using a smartboard.