SMART Notebook: Reflection #1
SMART Notebook has taught me a lot recently from what I’ve learned. It has many great tools to use to make presentations for your class fun and interactive. SMART notebook has a bunch of other tools you can use with it to make your presentation something that your students will be engaged in the whole time. Being taught how to use this tool gives me more opportunities when it comes to my classroom in the future to another level. I will be able to bring a lot of new ideas into my future classroom. There are things that I was taught that I never knew you could do or I never understood how my teachers did it when I was younger in school.
SMART exchange is an online resource that is related to SMART Notebook because with exchange you can see other teachers’ presentations and use them to adjust it to your lesson plan. It’s very helpful when you’re in a crunch and you didn’t have time to think of a brand-new lesson presentation for your class you can use exchange and look up the topic you’re covering and adjust it to make sure you cover everything you need. When I first learned how to use exchange and did an activity with it figuring out how to navigate around the resource. I found a lot of fun lessons posted on the resource that would get your class involved in the lesson and they would have fun doing it. If you have a fun/interesting lesson for your students the more they will remember because they will think about how fun that lesson really was about the topic is their curriculum.
In my future classroom I will take the SMART Notebook tool to create. Very unique presentations that I know I haven’t seen in the past because I think if you can keep thinking of new ways to teach on topic just makes it more fun/interesting for your students. I want to include activities within the presentation that get the students involved with the lesson. For example, if we are learning all the parts of plant or animal cells then I will include diagrams where the students have to drag the name to the corresponding part of the cell. I believe that including activities within the lesson to get your kids up and moving too make the want to be more engaged because I remember as a student in my classes, I always wanted to be the one called on so i. could go up to the board.