Week 6 Post (Required)

Today I got some great SMART board ideas to use in my future classroom. I enjoyed the various presentations, especially the one about the Titanic. Also, I learned that the teacher can record the presentation in order to play it back at a later date (for students who may need to see it again or who may have been absent on the original day of the presentation). Another interesting feature that I observed was converting written words on the board into text in order to copy them into a word document. This could be very helpful for certain lessons. All of these features are just a partial glimpse of the power of the SMART board within the realm of teaching. I feel much more confident with using it than I previously did; however, I would hope to have more practice during my student teaching semesters so that I can feel fully confident to use it in my classroom someday. I am still not exactly sure about how to hook up the students' response touch pads for interactive responses to the lesson and immediate feedback of their answers.