Getting I.T. Right!

Ms. Barrett’s fourth grade class is one of the classes that is piloting a Promethean Slate…a clipboard sized interactive board. As the student works with the virtual tablet, her actions appear on the projected screen for the class to see. On this interactive “flipchart” page, the students write their guess for solving the math problem on the white circle, and then use the virtual eraser to erase their guess and the white circle to find out if they are right.

After using the Smartboard to navigate through Envision Math (online math textbook) to learn about greater than/less than, Ms. Carneiro’s second graders logged onto their own computers to explore the array of virtual manipulatives (e.g. place-value blocks, counters, money, etc.) that are available in the “Tools 4 Math” area.

Ms. Thibodaux’s kindergarten class is using the Smartboard to navigate through an interactive guide to learning the parts of a computer, and then testing their knowledge.

Our 3rd grade students spent this afternoon reviewing for tomorrow’s math TAKS test, but not by taking practice tests on paper. Instead, they were utilizing a program that came with their textbooks called “QuizShow” in conjunction with Smartboards to test their knowledge. This great idea by their teachers proved to be a fun and effective way to prepare for their exam…you could hear students cheering for their teammates down the hallway!

In addition to helping our students find books in the library, our librarian Ms. Dalton instructs classes on how to access an array of online resources for reseach. In the picture, you can see Ms. Dalton utilizling an interactive whiteboard (a.k.a. Smartboard) to test some kindergartners knowledge of animals that they recently researched.