Smartboards

I love the interactive white boards I believe it helps the teacher to enhance the learning for the students as well as helping bring new activities and games for the students to do in the classroom.  I was in a third grade classroom for my students observations and the smart board was not attached to the wall and the projector was on a cart in the classroom.  This made it very difficult to use because the smartboard would move and the projector also moved do to the students moving in the classroom, so the orientation of the smartboard was always off.  The technology was not very hard to learn how to use.  I thought the procedure was very easy to use.  The pros to the smartboard are that you are using technology in the classroom and I believe the students love to use technology.  Another pro is that the students would be able to interact with it which helps them learn the material much better.  I know many students learn better when there is hands-on activities.  I mentioned one con to the smartboard earlier another con is that it takes up room on the classroom wall and sometimes it is too high for students to use, it would also be hard for a teacher my size (I am only 4’10”) to use the smartboard because it would be to high.  The smartboard can be incorporated into a lesson in so many ways.  I have developed.  You can show pictures in color, show clips of a movie, or use the games that are in the software for the smartboard, as well as making up games of your own.