In high school, I was presented with the use of smart boards in my classes. My high school was blessed to have the funds to have a smart board in most of the class rooms. Often, along with the smart boards came teachers who did not really know how to use them. Or they would know how to use them, but not to the ability that they could. This made me doubt why we really needed to be paying all that money for technology that is not being used.
My senior year of high school, I had an internship in a kindergarten classroom. Every day after lunch, I would go and I would spend the afternoon in Mrs. Hill's classroom. Mrs. Hill had a smart board in her room that she used every day. No matter what the lesson was that she was teaching she always had some interactive game or story on the smart board to go with it. Also during choice time, the students would get to choose the smart board as an activity to play with. During this experience I learned that smart boards, if known how to be used properly can really enhance learning.
During my Education 240 class I had a chance to experience smart boards on the flip side of the equation. I was no longer the one being taught but now actually doing the teaching. I greatly enjoyed being able to look at all of the different things that smart notebook and exchange had to offer. After looking through different websites, I found Gynzy.com. Gynzy is a great website that has tons of interactive games and tools to use while teaching with a smart board. On this website I found a math game involving money that would be perfect for learning how to properly pay for things.
I am glad that I learned the further knowledge of smart boards on the teaching side of things and learned all of the different ways that I can incorporate smart boards into my lessons daily when I am a teacher. This project also will be very helpful when I go on to do my lessons in my other education classes.
