Wow! Tom, Nick, and I really enjoyed our adventure to St. Paul where Chris was kind enough to demonstrate some of the exciting things that you can do with a "Smartboard." Chris teaches high school math and so he was demonstrating some of the functions that are especially useful to him. However, I am already thinking up different ways that a Smartboard could be especially helpful in teaching ELL students, as well as doing collaborative writing projects with middle school English students, and mulling applications that would assist students with reading difficulties.
Currently, I am working on my SIOP lesson plans and I was thinking about how much fun it would be to have a Smartboard for my volcanoes lessons.... This piece of equipment would be useful and fun to have in the classroom.
Watch our videos introducing & showing off some of the features of Chris'
Promethean Board:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GCY2JCOukE
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Michelle,
ReplyDeleteWhat do you make of the name for smartboards: Promethean? There is an allegory there, waiting for analysis.
Neil
Well, now, not all of them are called Promethean. Apparently, the two competing brands are "Smartboards" and "Promethean Boards."
ReplyDeleteI assume they are just very pleased with themselves. They fancy themselves to be like "gods" offering "fire" to the "humans," flying in the face of the other gods who would have this information hoarded and not offered.
I don't know really. This idea of a Promethean allegory in modern day is kind of intriguing, though. I might see what others have to say.