Mr P's SMART Board

Because I came across an interesting video today, I checked in here again for the first time in a long time and realised that it has been almost a year since I have posted on the SMART Board blog...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-have-i-been-doing.html

I went along to the ICT in Education Victoria Conference the other weekend and was fascinated by the fact that in a program of 60+ sessions, six of these sessions dealt with interactive whiteboa...

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We have just taken delivery of three brand spanking new SMART Boards and wow isn't it making me feel a bit jealous. The boards themselves are a bit larger and their are some nice changes to the p...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2006/03/everything-old-is-well-no-quite-as.html

Isn't interesting how some holidays make you forget what you used to be able to deal without more than a passing thought. Today we were using the board for a small reading group activity. I had f...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2006/03/venn-did-i-miss-point.html

The Times Online report that "Tests carried out by the UK National Radiological Protection Board have shown that the peripheral vision of users may be harmed even when they are not looking direc...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2006/03/timely-warning.html

At our place we have a nice computer lab that has 27 desktops and a data projector which is used to "teach" applications. Of course it is also heavily timetabled with very few chances for the "of...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2006/02/lab-substitute.html

With the new year comes a whole new school camp to go to along with a whole lot of questions about what it is like. As none of we teachers had yet to visit it also, answering these queries and st...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2006/02/camping-we-will-go.html

Our school has a policy of rotating the computers through the rooms at the end of each year and on-selling the older ones to families. This is a nice idea except that it means that the desktop co...

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I should have done this earlier however as always I get distracted and then it is only when you can't get to sleep at 5AM that you finally get around to posting again. The new school year has sta...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2006/02/new-year-begins.html

Tony Poulter from the UK's "Board With Teaching " website is set up to help trainees and teachers to get to grips with interactive whiteboards. It has heaps of great background information plus l...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2006/01/tony-poulter-from-uks-board-with.html

As alluded to in earlier postings I have been messing around with blogs and other associated technologies. I now have another blog, (3 in total related to teaching, Simply Science , (All about sc...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2006/01/spreading-word-widergetting-organised.html

Though I haven't posted here for a long time I haven't been ignoring the Board. Back in October I and a couple of colleagues from school were very ably supported by Jeremy from Electroboard in co...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2006/01/spreading-message.html

Having been told by a number of people both personally and by email that they have been reading this blog, I have been very slack in committing anything to it for some time now. That's not becaus...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/09/ive-been-bit-slack.html

Interesting to walk past one of my colleagues rooms early today, (one of the rooms where a new board has recently been installed in), to see that the day's schedule written in Word was on full di...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/08/what-are-we-doing.html

A quiet week this week, what with the AIM test and all that we didn't get to use the board a lot. I did manage "quelle horreurs" to draw on the SMARTBoard with a normal whiteboard marker, (honest...

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Had a couple of interesting happenstances today. Firstly I had related our experiences with the AIM test and the board to other teachers in the unit, suggesting that they might like to try "doing...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/07/who-owns-this-board.html

Over the weekend, in response to a query about another matter, I got an email back from Jeremy at Electroboard, (our SMARTBoard supplier), in which he passed on the information that an update for...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/07/smart-idea-up-to-date.html

After our aborted mis-adventures with using the SMARTBoard to demonstrate how to take an AIM test of last week, I finally found the 2004 version to match the student books we already had. A numbe...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/07/taking-aim-at-2004.html

Each year in our system, the children in grade's 3 & 5 are subjected to a set of state-wide tests quaintly titled the AIM, (or Achievement Improvement Monitor..... Sounds like some form of strang...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/07/curses-foiled-again-batman.html

One of the joys of teaching is to sometimes have a pre-service teacher in your room getting classroom experience before launching into the career full time. So it is that I had the pleasure of Mr...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/07/not-such-smart-idea-again.html

Here we are back at work and the children are as eager as ever to learn??? (well some of them at least :). The first week back has proceeded pretty much as normal though now I have reclaimed my t...

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Another holiday, another conference. This time it was CONASTA, the Australian Science Teachers' Annual Conference. I had offered to run my session on ICT and Science and once again sought the as...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/07/conferencing-again.html

With June comes the time to do the mid-year student reports. Alas the need to gather data, write the reports etc has meant that not a lot has happened with the board over the past couple of days....

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/06/oh-damn-not-such-smart-idea.html

Part way through the teaching this morning and the Principal came in with one of those, "I'm about to ask you a favour looks". It seems that a fellow Prin who also taught at our school was visiti...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/06/seeing-eye-to-eye-with-boss.html

Oh wow was this another biggey or not? Today in our little discussions that we have often, up came the subject of breathing and how the lungs work. Well last week we had discussed the circulatory...

http://mr-p-iwb.blogspot.com/2005/06/time-to-draw-breath.html