SMART+Notebook

SMART Notebook

1. This is my SMART Notebook presentation. It is an interactive presentation on the lifecycle of a frog for a first grade class.

2. Overall, I wish that our SMART board presentation had been stronger. We had some problems in our group as a whole because of some personal issues that one of our group members had to take care of. As a result, only two of us contriubuted to the project and, because we expected her part of the presentation much earlier, the presentation was not able to come together the way we had expected. In the future, I would really like to include more features to a SMART notebook presentation such as the use or more graphics. My parner and I were also sad that the sound on our presentation did not work. While I am really excited that I now know how to use SMART notebook and will definately incoorporate it into my lesson plans when I am a teacher, I felt that this particular artifact could have been better.

3. When I am a teacher, I plan to include SMART notebook presentations in my classes often. They are a great way to give students a visual of what they are learning about, as well as get to participate in lessons they would otherwise only be passive learners. For example, in a government class I would love to get my students involved in the voting process. By using SMART notebook, I could show them pictures and options of people they could vote for for president, and take them through the entire voting process with the presentation. I also plan to use this to brighten up my lectures, or add pizzazz to my presentations by including videos, adding visuals to interesting web pages, or just adding fun visuals so that the students can be more engaged.