Ideas for Using the SMART Board from Grade 6

I asked my Grade 6 class to write down some ideas they had about how to use the SMART Board more effectively. Here is what they wrote:

SMART Board Ideas:

• Use different texts and pictures to make it more interesting
• Use grids and different backgrounds
• Use the SMART Board Camera Capture for blogs or anything
• Use Skype more and talk to penpals in China
• Watch movies about China
• Play different games on it
• Use recording more
• Let us use it more
• Find more games to play
• Take pictures of other screens with the camera tool
• Capture the screen on websites and have them in Notebook
• Recording videos / voice
• Highlighting parts of websites

What We Like About the SMART Board

• You can see things bigger, everyone can watch something without using different computers
• That it’s interactive
• That it’s big and we can see it good
• It’s good to present stuff
• Lots of people can watch it
• Makes it easier to write Chinese characters