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Using the SmartBoard and
Promethean Board in the Classroom
Application of Current and Emerging
Technologies in the Classroom
Dr. Steve Broskoske
Misericordia University
Outline
• Using Productivity Software to Support
Constructivist Learning
• Interactive White Boards (IWB)
– SMART Board
– Using Advanced PowerPoint Tools with SMART
Board
– Promethean Board
• Virtual Schools and Course Management
Systems
Using Productivity Tools to Support
Constructivist Learning
Constructivism
• Learning entails construction (and reshaping)
of mental schemata.
• Knowledge is constructed by learners
individually vs. passed on by instructor to
student.
• Learners are active participants in
constructing and determining meaning from
their environment (Piaget, 1960).
Constructivism
• Sequence of instruction is less significant than the
learning environment (Jonassen, 1994).
• Focus on concept formation, problem solving,
decision making, lifelong learning.
• Constructivism shifts learning from a teachercentered environment to student-centered.
• More of the burden of learning rests on the
student.
• Prepares students for lifelong
learning.
Productivity Tools and Constructivism
• Learners can assemble information and
examples to “teach” the material back to the
teacher (reflective notebook/learning
portfolio).
– Word:
• Learners can assemble text, graphics, links.
– PowerPoint:
• Same as Word, plus audio and video.
– MS PhotoStory
Productivity Tools and Constructivism
• Project-based learning:
– Students can use Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and
Access (databases) to…
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Gather, sort, and organize data.
Analyze data.
Synthesize data.
Present information.
Productivity Tools and Constructivism
• Excel:
– Learners can simulate and explore concepts.
– Get hands-on experience with material that is
difficulty to fathom and/or dangerous or too time
consuming to explore in real life.
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How large is a billion?
How big is the national debt?
How far away is the closest star? Another planet or the Sun?
What is the impact of smoking or drug use on my life?
How devastating is war?
TRY IT
• Experiment with Constructivist applications in
Excel.
Download Excel
Applications
Appreciating Planetary Distance
• Shrink the solar system down in scale:
– 1,000,000 miles = 1 foot
– Solar system radius = approx. 1 mile
• How long would it take to walk from the Sun
to Pluto?
– 20 minutes
– Travel 4,000,000,000 miles
– Walking (at this scale), you would be traveling at
10 times the speed of light.
Appreciating Planetary Distance
At this scale, how far west would you have to
walk to find our nearest star (Proxima Centauri)?
Dallas
TRY IT
• In a small group, brainstorm/create an activity
that would allow students to construct their
own understanding using Excel.
• Later, blog about your experience/ideas to
your blog.
Interactive White Boards
Interactive White Boards
• SMART Boards and Promethean Boards are
known as Interactive White Boards (IWBs).
Interactive White Boards
• Expected that 1 out of 7 classrooms globally will
feature an interactive whiteboard by 2011.
• In 2004, 26% of British primary classrooms had
interactive whiteboards.
• By 2008, average numbers of interactive
whiteboards rose in both primary schools (18
compared with just over six in 2005, and eight in
the 2007 survey) and secondary schools (38,
compared with 18 in 2005 and 22 in 2007).
Interactive White Boards
• Student/classroom response systems: Handheld
“clickers” operating via Infrared or Radio signals.
– Basic multiple choice and polling options.
– Text and numeric responses.
– Student performance for subsequent review.
• With classroom response and interactive
whiteboard systems combined, teachers can
present material and receive feedback from
students in order to direct instruction more
effectively as well as carry out formal
assessments.
Interactive White Boards
• Results of a 2004 British study suggest that IWBs:
– Led to consistently increased academic performance
across all subject areas.
– Have positive impacts on the attention, attitude, and
motivation of learners.
– Produce a co-operative “community of learning”
atmosphere in the class.
– Help in teaching abstract and difficult concepts and
complex ideas.
– Help learners concentrate longer and understand
more fully.
Interactive White Boards
• Key factors to academic success with IWBs:
• IWBs should be embedded in the classroom.
• Teacher experience with IWBs is important.
– Implies that teachers need training and experience.
• Negative:
– With lower-ability groups, IWBs could slow the
pace of whole class learning as individual students
take turns at the board.
SMART Board
SMART Boards
• SMART Board was introduced in 1991 by
SMART Technologies.
• First IWB to provide touch control of
computer applications and annotation over
standard Microsoft Windows applications.
• Created for business use, and later assimilated
into education.
SMART Boards
• Touch sensitive board.
• Anything can make a mark on the board
(provided pens, finger).
• Use 3 pen colors (black, green, red) plus an
eraser.
• Board needs to be oriented.
• SMART Notebook software.
• Also designed to work with PowerPoint.
SMART Board Software
• SMART Sync (formerly SynchronEyes): classroom
management software connects a teacher’s
computer with every computer in a networked
classroom.
– Ability to monitor individual student desktops or
thumbnails of all student desktops.
– Restrict applications and internet access.
– Remotely control student computers.
– Send and receive files.
– Lock any or all student computer stations.
– Restart or shut down student computers.
SMART Board Software
• Latest feature: classroom collaboration.
– Allows teachers to randomly assign groups of two
or three students who, after working
independently on an assignment, collaborate via
SMART Sync and electronically submit the finished
assignment.
Using Advanced PowerPoint
Tools with SMART Board
Callouts, Advanced Animation,
Triggered Animation, “Hot Spots”
with Invisible Action Buttons
Using Callouts
Using Drawing Tools as Callouts
From the insert tab, select shapes from the illustrations
group. Use rectangles and ovals to call attention to
words on the slide. After animating, right-click and
select send to back.
Highlight specific information in this sentence.
Advanced Timing with Animation
Select the drop-down arrow for a play listed item, and
select show advanced timeline. Now, drag the timing
bar(s) to properly adjust the timing of animation.
(Ensure subsequent play listed items are set to “after
previous” to enable the timing bar to be adjusted.)
Advanced Timing with Animation
Use the advanced timeline to make the football player
kick the ball. Use the cropping tool to hide football.
Triggered Animations
Which of the following is the
correct chemical formula for water?
HO
H2O
H2O2
Try again!
Correct!
Try again!
Touch Sensitive “Hot Spots”
Learning about Computers
Touch a part of
the computer to
learn more about
it:
Learn about the Monitor
The monitor
displays
information from
the computer.
Learn about the Keyboard
The keyboard is
how you enter
information into
the computer.
Invisible Action Buttons
Touch a part of the PC system:
Tower.
Monitor.
Speakers.
Promethean Board
Promethean
• Promethean Board was developed as the
Activboard Interactive Whiteboard in 1996 by
Promethean Ltd.
• Promethean uses a metal board that is
controlled by a magnetic pen.
• Created specifically for educational use.
• Uses the flipchart as the
basis of the board vs.
PowerPoint.
Promethean Software
• ActivInspire Personal Edition: Version allows
teachers, students, and parents to use
ActivInspire tools, free of charge!.
• You can use ActivInspire even if you have
another brand of interactive whiteboard, or
you don’t have a whiteboard at all.
• ActivPrimary
• ActivStudio
ActivInspire
ActivInspire Personal Edition
• Ability to view and play back pre-prepared
content, including Premium content from
publishers.
• Import files and content from a variety of
other applications such as PowerPoint,
Adobe, and Smart Notebook.
• Rich power tools including spotlight, clock,
time stamping and learner response system
functionality.
ActivInspire Professional Edition
• Supports ActivExpression Self-Paced Learning.
• True real-time collaboration with dual input
capability.
• Rich multimedia support including sound
recorder and screen recorder.
• Shape recognition and handwriting recognition
tools.
• Extensive customization features – create your
own profile to suit your teaching style.
• Available for use on any interactive whiteboard.
Promethean Tools
Personal Edition
• Clock
• Snap Object to Grid
• Spotlight
• Time Stamping
Extras in Professional Edition
• Color Picker
• Tickertape
• Compass Tool
• Revealer Tool
• Calculator
• On-screen Keyboard
• Dice Tool
• Spellcheck
• Screen Recorder
• Sound Recorder
Social Media
• Promethean Board taps into the social media
tools.
– Lesson plans: Repository of thousands of teacher
developed lessons created by Promethean Planet
users all over the world.
– Resource packs: Promethean developed resource
packs, including images, backgrounds, and action
objects.
– Weblinks: Browse user-submitted Web links for lesson
ideas, supplementary curriculum, and interactive
activities.
Social Media
• Promethean Board taps into the social media
tools.
– Themes: Extensive compilations of all available
resource types, categorized by theme and
surrounded by additional editorial content.
– Partnering company resources: Resources
developed by Promethean partners, free for
download.
Explore Promethean Planet
Video Demonstration
Geometry on Promethean
Geometry on Promethean
Benefits
• Saves time: Teachers no longer have to write
lesson material on the board. Instead, they
can prepare their lessons in advance.
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(Gatlin, 2004)
Benefits
• Promethean is an electromagnetic IWB. Has a
rigid, more durable surface than touch-sensitive
boards.
• Pen is the exclusive pointing and writing device.
– Promethean pen is a lightweight, passive device that
require no batteries.
– Pen has hover and right-click functionality.
• Students (and teachers) who lack the fine motor
skills necessary to write on a board without
resting their hand on it can do so on ActivBoards
without creating virtual smudges.
(Hastings, 2010)
Active Learners
• Promethean Board was created for education
(unlike the SmartBoard that was created for
business).
• It was designed to help teachers change
students from passive to active learners.
Active Learners
• Students can:
– Interact verbally.
– Come up to the board individually.
– Work from their seats with the Activslate.
– Participate as a group using Activotes or
ActivExpression.
An easy way to keep students on task is to keep the
Activotes out all the time and ask students to agree
or disagree with what an individual has contributed
to the discussion or lesson.
Creating Active Learners
• “The excitement created by this new technology
has changed the climate of our schools. Now,
when teachers walk down the halls they see a
noticeable difference in the energy and activity
levels of their classrooms.”
• Teachers are facilitating information, while
students are moving back and forth from the
interactive whiteboard to their desks or
interacting from their desks using the wireless
peripherals.
(Gatlin, 2004)
Creating Active Learners
• We hear more of a dialogue between students
and teachers, and see that students are more
involved and motivated to learn.
We now call our rooms "active
classrooms" because that is what
they have become.
Creating Active Learners
ActiVote
ActivExpression
Creating Active Learners
• Interactive review games: Create & project a
list of questions with multiple-choice answers.
Student contestants use ACTIVslate to control
the whiteboard from their seats and select the
answers.
• If a student needs help, he/she could poll
fellow classmates who used the ACTIVote to
select the answer they thought was correct.
(Gatlin, 2004)
Creating Active Learners
• Assessment: Teachers can administer quizzes
and tests.
• Obtain instant results that indicate which
areas students understand and which areas
need to be readdressed.
• Promethean's ActivExpression student
response system allows for two-way texting of
questions and answers in addition to multiple
choice quizzes and polls.
(Gatlin, 2004)
Creating Active Learners
• ActivExpression (introduced in 2007): Allows
students to provide open ended responses and
content in response to questions and tasks set by
the teacher.
• A combination of hot keys and a cell phone type
keypad allow students to text their ideas to the
Activboard.
• ActivExpression Interactive Whiteboard software
allows words and ideas to be linked, reorganized,
or ranked in order to create new content.
TRY IT
• Let’s explore the resources available at
Promethean Planet.
Promethean Planet
TRY IT
• Let’s install and experiment with the
ActivInspire software tools for the
Promethean Board.
• In-class activities:
– Basic:
• Experiment with the tools.
• Create a basic flipchart to support a lesson.
– Advanced:
• Join Promethean Planet.
• Download existing flipcharts OR a resource pack.
Virtual Schools and
Course Management Systems
Virtual Schools and
Course Management Systems
• Virtual schools rely solely on course
management systems.
• Classroom of the future may rely more on
course management systems:
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My Courses (in e-MU)
Blackboard
Moodle
Elluminate (Used in many virtual schools.)
Wimba (Latest: Now merging with Elluminate.)
About the Virtual School
• About 2 Pennsylvania virtual schools:
– Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School
http://www.pavcsk12.org
– Agora Cyber Charter School
http://www.k12.com
• Students who typically attend:
– Religious reasons.
– Don’t like district.
– Special ed. students.
About the Virtual School
• Have 47 students.
• Students sign into Blackboard every day. Need
900 hours (180 days).
• No snow days. Have a school calendar.
• Company provides computer hardware and
software, and provides support to parents.
Faculty also have computer support (3
technicians).
Communicating
• Communication:
– Twice a month talk to students for an hour, oneon-one.
– Group meetings.
– Also talk to parents every month.
Faculty
• Faculty work conditions:
– Non-union.
– Act 48 provided free-of-charge.
– 8:00 – 4:00 have to be online.
– High level of collaboration among faculty.
– Formal and informal observations of faculty.
• Faculty meetings:
– 3 regional professional developments annually.
– Weekly faculty meetings.
What Teaching Is Like
• Teaching:
– Make sure that parent is teaching the student:
Informally assess, practice skill.
– See work: faxed, mailed.
– Grading: No grade. Mastery, met standard,
working to standard.
– PSSA and Dibels face-to-face.
What Teaching Is Like
• Parents actually teach.
• Teacher must ensure parents are not helping
during assessment.
Need for Social Interaction
• Social activities:
– Hold proms, parties, and graduation ceremonies
regionally.
– Face-to-face social or educational functions
offered often.
Elluminate
• Elluminate is an online tool that allows an
entire class to be conducted remotely.
• Teaching is conducted using audio or video
with audio.
• An entire class can be connected at the same
time.
• Provides a host of tools for presenting, and a
host of tools for functioning as a student.
Features of Elluminate
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Two-way VoIP.
Interactive whiteboard.
Application sharing.
Desktop sharing.
File transfer.
Synchronized web tour.
Live webcam.
Requirements to Use Elluminate
• 20 MB free disk space.
• Sound card with speakers & microphone (or
headset).
• Minimum 28.8 kbps Internet connection.
Elluminate for 1 Teacher
• Elluminate vRoom:
– A FREE, 3-person meeting room with full functionality,
except recording and integrated teleconferencing.
• Elluminate vOffice:
– Personal meeting room for 50 participants with full
recording capability.
• Elluminate vClass:
– A single virtual classroom for 50 to 400 students,
customizable moderator names, and full recording
capability.
Elluminate for an Entire Institution
(Learning Suite)
• Elluminate Plan!
– Organize and script session content ahead of time.
• Elluminate Live!
– Real-time online class interaction.
• Elluminate Publish!
– Create standalone files or industry-standard video
files from Elluminate Live! recordings.
Let’s Explore
• Let’s log into Wimba through My Courses in
eMU. From there, let’s explore Wimba, a
course management system used at MU.
Assignments
• Let's add a section to our Wiki to explore how
these technologies can be used in the
classroom.
• Remote activity: Exploring online safety
[Wimba].
Next Week
• Hardware and Software Tools to Support
Student Learning
– e-Book readers
– Smart pens
– Smart phone applications
– Student response systems
– Software tools to support student learning
– Virtual tools for learning