For Teachers

This is a fun video that can be used as an introduction to the language, grammar, and a host of other general English topics.

This Smartboard Training tutorial will demonstrate how to use some of the finer tools.  In this case, you will see what are and how to use the Magic Pen on your Smartboard.

The object of this educational study game is to be the team with the number of points closest to 0. There are negative and positive numbers that hide behind balloons that students will come up to the board and pop. Numbers range from the negatives to the positives. They get choices of passing the balloon pop to another team or popping it themselves. This study game was quite competitive at the high school level. I have tested it out with my Spanish students and they really liked it.

This Smartboard Notebook MadLib Activity is great for those teaching languages. I have used this activity with my Spanish students and have seen it work in elementary grades when teaching sentence structure and working with sight words. You as the teacher will set up vocabulary dice that represent nouns, verbs, adverbs, locations, etc... and then the dice will randomly select words out of your list and then students will create sentences using those words. It is extremely effective and it can end up being funny and fun as well.

This idea works with multiple versions of the Smart Notebook. Learn how to use the Smart Notebook to randomly select students or randomly place them in groups. It is quick and simple.

This tutorial describes many of the common tools used in Smartboard Notebook. Learn what the different views are, how to use the different pens and how to customize them, learn how to customize the location of the formatting ribbons.

Tutorial on using jeopardylabs.com which is a great way for teachers to create a realistic jeopardy game that is fun for students.

This EdTech Tutorial will demonstrate how to create captions for your images in Google Slides and Google Docs. It will also demonstrate how to create your caption with a semitransparent background so that you text doesn't class with your images.

This Google Earth tutorial demonstrates how to use layers in Google Earth to teach Earth Science.

This Google Earth tutorial demonstrates some options you can set for your view. It includes adding latitude and longitude lines, adding a distance scale, adding the ability to see eye altitude, and finally how to disable and enable the "tour" bar at the bottom.