"Smartboards are a fabulous combination of two useful methodologies" (pioneer Stan Sterenberg) at Chapin 1/14/05

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Useful Web page used by Ellen Nickles (Dalton School) and Steve Bergen (Summercore) on 10/12/09 for University School of Milwaukee
LESSONS TO WATCH ON SPECIFIC SKILLS POPULAR GALLERY ITEMS LINKS, WEB SITES & A FEW SAMPLES TO DOWNLOAD
  • Alphabet Audio Items
  • Category Sort Activity
  • Clip Art
  • Crossword
  • Dice
  • Flags
  • Flash (to show all animated activities/clip art)
  • Graph
  • Graph Paper Background
  • Hundred Square (Interactive and Multimedia)
  • Image Match Activity
  • Instant Lessons
  • Lined paper (Backgrounds and Themes)
  • Maps
  • Number lines
  • Protractor
  • Random Image Generator
  • Random Number Generator
  • Ruler
  • Sentence Arrange Activity
  • Spinner
  • Venn Diagram

SAMPLE FILES

  • JV: using the smartboard as a giant touch screen with markers to highlight and erase
    • each pen writes electronically in color, letting you circle words or highlight info for students
    • tapping on the screen when all pens are back in the tray automatically erases
    • navigate the Web by clicking on the screen
    • make sure you know how to orient the board
  • Varsity: using the smartboard to prepare lessons in advance, perhaps with sequential steps and perhaps to then send to students or post on the Web.
  • Vocabulary
    • Pictures and Backgrounds include clip art and photographs. A background fills the entire page.
    • Interactive and Multimedia contains three types of content: Flash files, video files and objects with attached sounds. Items from this section of the Gallery are used to add rich media content to a lesson or presentation and engage reluctant learners with multimedia elements.
    • Notebook Files and Pages. Notebook file thumbnails are recognized by the coil binding on the left of the thumbnail image. Drag the thumbnail image to the work area to add a page or series of pages, such as a complete lesson activity, to your existing content. Notebook files will be inserted directly after the active Notebook page. Notebook page thumbnails are identified by the folded edge in the top- right corner. Drag the thumbnail image to the work area to create a new page with a background for students to write over, such as an exercise in identifying shapes.

What else? A shoutout to Rob Sugarman, Bill Luther and Tequipment.com for making a difference!

I am looking for a vendor on Long Island, or that works on Long Island who can repair AV "stuff" onsite, in particular cabling that is run through the ceiling that has a broken pin (SVGA, SVideo, RCA, etc)? I typically do most of the installing but need a vendor who can fix items when they get broken. Running new cable is a possibility but a real pain. I also would like to inquire with them about terminating the cables so it is not simply a wire down and out of the wall as that is where I am having my problems? thanks in advance for your help! JS, Director of Technology Long Island Lutheran Middle

At Chapin, we used TEQ for a variety of what we call bronze, silver and gold rooms (bronze is projector only, silver for projector plus smartboard, gold adds DVD setup with DVD player, VCR and cable TV feed). I now know a ton more than I did a year ago and it is amazing how many intracacies there are in terms of projector placement, wall plates, placement preferences re laptop location, smartboard heights in a K-12 school with some teachers being 5' tall and middle school students being shorter. TEQ has been remarkably creative and clever in finding and creating unique solutions and have implemented about 20+ rooms for us in a major league professional manner. Steve

TEQ ... Tequipment Inc, 175 Ivy St, Oyster Bay, NY 11771
sales AT tequipment.com ... contact person: Rob Sugarman 516.922.3508 phone

March 7, 2008: gigathanks to Rob Sugarman and Bill Luther from Tequipment from Farmingdale NY for one of the most shocking acts of generosity we have ever seen on 129th street. Coming out on Friday 3/7 to do a routine walk-through and to choose 2 or 3 rooms for a mounted projector and smartboard, the two of them forced me (Steve Bergen) to sit down after 33 minutes so they could share the "facts of life" with me. Unwilling and reluctant I sat down and was shocked to hear that they wanted to put mounted smartboards and mounted projectors into each of our 15 classrooms at no charge, along with training our entire faculty. Speechless, stunned and shocked, it has taken me days to recover and understand the magnitude of this generous gift and the enormity of how it is going to impact our school. Arriving with truck on Wednesday March 26th, the view from a porch in Harlem began to take on a distinctive look with Smartboard cartons! Click on the picture at the top to see a picture or Rob and Bill with several Storefront students in the computer lab. Click here for "before" and "after" pictures of the 14 rooms that were transformed on March 26-28, 2008.