Developed especially for new users, the SMART Notebook Basics session employs a set of inquiry based activities to teach functionality while offering inspiration for classroom application.

Teachers will gain the foundation skills to begin to access a library of 60,000 lessons, create content in a teacher developed, intuitive platform, and engage students while synchronously gathering assessment data.

In this session participants will:

● Identify basic functions and features including the menus, toolbar and side tabs
● Explore hidden responses
● Create and customize tables
● Catalog and insert images, backgrounds & interactive multimedia
● Use Link It/Sort It to capture internet objects, insert hyperlinks and order pages
● Compose and edit with Ink Aware, a handwriting recognition tool
● Explore how students can interact live with any smart device (phone tablet, laptop, etc.) device, answering polls and more

Explore how SMART can increase student engagement and more efficient lesson development. Collaborate with peers to design activities during the session. Learn about the community that shares thousands of pre-developed lessons.

Discovery, creation, and design are all part of this session.

In this session participants will:

● Identify lesson best practices by reviewing examples
● Explore the foundation functions and tools
● Practice activity design and development
● Identify strategies that integrate immediate feedback, adaptability and immediate assessment into activities
● Become part of the SMART Community, sharing lessons with teachers worldwide
● Review pre-developed lessons that can be used in class immediately

The foundation of SMART technology includes accessing SMART Exchange and discovering the interactive pre-made, downloadable lessons.
Explore possibilities beyond the foundation by engaging with students in their Web 2.0 world. Connect with students and teach how they learn: with social media, videos, and creation and content publishing.

Web 2.0 takes the internet beyond a source of information to a place to interact and be part of the information flow. Explore how the SMART board can boost class interaction with these Web 2.0 tools.

In this session participants will:

● Search the SMART Exchange for activities for instant implementation
● Identify the features of Web 2.0 tools
● Review device settings that optimize for Web 2.0 use
● Explore Web 2.0 staff pick tools
● Collaborate with peers to investigate Web 2.0 tools

SMART Boards have unique opportunity for primary level classrooms: students who are mastering reading can view media and images, and the recorded lessons can be replayed for reinforcement towards mastery.

While textbooks have graphics, SMART boards can display multimedia that you can replay, edit, and even edit and caption with digital ink, using engagement techniques which has become natural for your students’ generation. Investigate inquiry-based methods for using a SMART Board with Primary students.
Work with your peers to create interactive activities that promote inquiry and elicit higher-level thinking in your students.

In this session participants will:
● Interactive activities for the SMART Board
● Share Folders of ideas/pre-made activities

Forget the bus and headcounts, save money and stress by going on fields trips without ever leaving the school. Share destinations like National Parks, Museums, and exotic international locations, while integrating across the curriculum, including science, history, art, geography, social studies.

You will venture on virtual excursions with your peers to create trips your students can take right on the screen of your SMART board.

In the second component of the session, help students also share their world using the SMART Document Camera, converting 3D objects into digital figures to manipulate, label and save on screen.

It this session participants will:

● Sample pre-developed virtual field trip lessons
● Integrate learning objectives and standards into a field trip
● Explore Google Maps, getting a street level view of locations worldwide
● Convert 3D objects to the SMART screen
● Practice sharing student work through iPad apps (as applicable)

Bring the knowledge of experts from around the world into your classroom. Interview professionals, authors, and external authorities through a variety of software and online tools combined with the SMART Board. Learn about multiple strategies for increasing interaction by gathering and displaying student ideas and data through tools such as message boards and polling.

In this session participants will:

● Discuss fundamentals to integrate strong pre-interview preparation
● Formulate quality questioning and prompts to maximize interview opportunities
● Foster 21st Century Skills by discussing how to develop appropriate student interaction
● Test out the free online chat and interaction tools
● Practice polling to gather and display student feedback, check for understanding and assess
● Discover how to help conversation continue and grow using message boards

Discover what is changing classrooms all over: flipping a class turns classrooms upside down-in a great way. SMART technology makes flipping a breeze.

Use the SMART Recorder to capture step-by-step processes for students to engage with content as their homework; providing class time for high quality questioning, discussion and interaction.

In this session participants will:

● Identify how to help students configure technology for at home use
● Create and export files from SMART Notebook for out of school student access
● Record the screen and audio, like your voice, to create a virtual lesson that can be saved and reviewed
● Use the video player to connect a device, play a video and even write captions in digital ink
● Import existing files from other software, such as PowerPoint or Word, using Print Capture
● Practice using Math Tools, including measuring, manipulating shapes, geometry and secondary math topics as appropriate