SMARTboard

WCPSS Interactive Whiteboard Wiki
http://resources4iwb.wikispaces.com/

Sycamore Creek Grade Level SMARTboard Resources
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__The Research__
Marzano recently divided 85 educators into two groups: One taught a lesson to students using interactive whiteboards and the other taught the same lesson using standard, more traditional tools. His data was undeniable: read the full story @: @http://www.edutopia.org/interactive-whiteboards-technology-success
 * Of those classrooms employing the boards and using the voting technology, there was an immediate increase of 17 percent in scores.
 * He also found that if a teacher had been given 20-30 months to hone his or her skills, there was an average 20 percentile gain.
 * The sweet spot, he says -- the perfect storm of student achievement, according to his findings -- was when a teacher was trained to use the technology, had used it for two years, and did so 75 percent of the time. That profile shows a whopping 29 percentile gain in scores. But he warns that there is such a thing as too much technology. Marzano told the audience that beyond this sweet spot, dragons await in the form of diminishing returns in improved student scores, thus proving, he adds, that you clearly "can't take the human being out of teaching."


 * Great site with many free lessons, resources, and more** []

Computer Parts and Computer Lab Rules - SmartBoard Lesson and Game. The game can be played by tossing a koosh ball at the circles.