What I Learned About the SMARTboard ( required)

Well, I definitely learned that I have a lot more to learn about the SMARTboard and about technology in general. It is also hard to plan with technology because there are always little things that can go wrong or happen in ways you do not expect. I think it is important to always have a back up plan and never be too prideful to ask for help from students. I think that if I have learned one thing in this class it is that students know an awful lot about technology, and really they can be your best resources. It also shows students that you are real if you are willing to learn from your mistakes. However,it is also important to give any technological tools a test run and to try to be ask prepared as you can be. If you are calm, the class will be too. I also noticed that it can be hard to get a good amount of class participation when using a SMARTboard. Even in our class it was easy to see that the same students would volunteer to help and others would sit back and tune out. I think one way to solve this is to deal with the SMARTboard in small groups such as stations, this allows more students to have a hands on experience with the SMARTboard. I still have many questions. I think that ultimately because I learn by doing, I need to personally play around with it more. It doesn't help me much to be told how to do things, instead, I need to figure them out for myself. This I realize requires more time of me. I would really like to learn how to record and post lessons, also I would like to become more savvy with the creation of games and also using template as a spring board for my own lessons.

I conclude: I have a lot more to learn, but I have come much farther then I thought :).