I have found a couple resources on the net that you might want to have a look at. The first one is a blog written by a trainer. He posts freqently and issues a challenge every Sunday afternoon. He responds persoanlly when you send him your completed project. The url is http://www.smartboards.typepad.com/
The second resource is found in iTunes, it is a podcast. The website also allows you to download the podcast. It is PD to Go at http://pdtogo.com/smart/?p=97
Enjoy.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Masters Certification
Late last school year Marian , my wife, and I took a course that enabled us to do Level 1 and Level 2 courses for SmartNotebook. The course required that we do some of the webinars, reading case studies, precourse activities, three days training and finally a video of us teaching part of the course.
So we went to work in the first week of July in a school with no air conditioning during one of the hottest weeks of the year to do some video work. In the end we were successful and both are now certified to do Smartboard sanctioned sessions.
We did a session on Oct. 4th for the ETC (Educational Technology Council of the ATA) in St. Albert. We had 30 plus people sandwiched into a classroom with laptops. We were very nervous and initially were told there would be 16 teachers. So when we heard that there would be nearly 40 we got very nervous.
The good news is we lived, but barley. The lesson we learned is to make sure people taking a course like this have used the software before. In the future we would like them to complete some challenges and before hand. That way everyone has a base to build on. We found that in the class we had people who could be teaching the session and some that were having problems running their computers.
We are hoping to do another one in Grande Prairie on the 29th of November.
So we went to work in the first week of July in a school with no air conditioning during one of the hottest weeks of the year to do some video work. In the end we were successful and both are now certified to do Smartboard sanctioned sessions.
We did a session on Oct. 4th for the ETC (Educational Technology Council of the ATA) in St. Albert. We had 30 plus people sandwiched into a classroom with laptops. We were very nervous and initially were told there would be 16 teachers. So when we heard that there would be nearly 40 we got very nervous.
The good news is we lived, but barley. The lesson we learned is to make sure people taking a course like this have used the software before. In the future we would like them to complete some challenges and before hand. That way everyone has a base to build on. We found that in the class we had people who could be teaching the session and some that were having problems running their computers.
We are hoping to do another one in Grande Prairie on the 29th of November.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Recent Workshops
I have been doing a few workshops at my school and for the Education Technology Council (ETC) of the ATA. I have posted my presentation in the ETC Moodle site.
Smartboards use in the GPPSD seems to be picking up, the IT department have 90 to install over the summer. With this number about 1/3 of our classrooms should have them by Sept. 2008. We should hit the 'tipping point' with this and the rest of the classrooms should be shortly after.
My presentation via slideshare.com
Smartboards use in the GPPSD seems to be picking up, the IT department have 90 to install over the summer. With this number about 1/3 of our classrooms should have them by Sept. 2008. We should hit the 'tipping point' with this and the rest of the classrooms should be shortly after.
My presentation via slideshare.com
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