How To Use A Smart Board In The Classroom

Using the smart board in the classroom has shown to be more effective in teaching as compared to the convectional black board with white chalk. Working with the smart board in the classroom is more than just connecting students to the internet. The smart board allows both teacher and students to have access to multiple resources online. These boards opens up so many opportunities as well as getting students to connect globally with themselves and with others.

Learning to use the smart board technology can greatly enhance students learning experience since it brings all the learning styles together into one large experience. Aside from been very flexible, it can help in meeting the needs of student and foster interaction in the area of knowledge transfer.

The possibilities of the smart board technology is limitless, however, knowing how to use this piece of technology requires practice and consistent usage. The smart board works just like our laptop. To use it, first you will need to turn it on by using the power button. Once it comes up, you can either assign a password or leave it free o access. Some boards have a power button that's just beneath the screen while others have it at the back. Setting up an account for the smart board is pretty much like setting up the account for your tablet or PC. You can set up your personal account or a guest account. For a guest account, anyone will have access to the class resources and information. Like our computer, the smart board takes time to boot before it can be put to use. The video below provides detailed explanation on   how to use a smart board in the classroom. 

Five Easy Ways to Use a Smart Board

1. Take Virtual Trip Anywhere: Smart board can be used to take students on Virtual trips to just about anywhere. Like many schools that operates on limited budget, hampering student’s learning experience can be a major issue. However, with the smart board the teacher can easily introduce new learning materials and immerse the students in wholesome experience without ever having to leave the classroom. The smart board makes provision for a really cool like the 360 degree virtual tours which are in video or image format. Using the smart board can allow teachers to manipulate images, hence allowing a greater depth of understanding for the visual learners and allow the more kinesthetic Learners to come up to the board themselves to draw or to write on it.

2. Help Student find Success: Smart board technology can be used in helping student to find a greater level of success when doing any particular activity in class. It is vital for teacher’s s to help student’s succeed by showing them how to use the smart board. Using the smart board is about empowerment. Putting the power in the hands of the student and letting them use the tools appropriately empowers them to be successful. 

3. Show Student’s Work on Smart Board: The smart board is made to enforce collaboration and this is done by helping the teacher to know what the students are working on and whether it's good or needs a little bit of help. The board helps teachers to know if kids are getting really into the details of the class activity or they need a bit of fine-tuning on what they are working on.

4. Annotation: The smart board technology can be used to teach kids how to annotate. Annotating is a great way to get students to understand for example why an author did a particular thing or why they are using certain words. Being able to put something up on the smart board helps the teacher to take kids through instead of just passively consuming a whole bunch of pages, words or text.

5. Fun at Lunch: Been a teacher is not just about creating a safe space for kids to hang out or be with one another to talk about whatever new show is on or movie that's coming out.  One of the thing that a teacher can do with the smart board is to play educational and challenging video games with his or her students.