--- Forwarded Message from [log in to unmask] --- >From: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Smartboard Use? >Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:05:53 -0500 Susan Breeyear Assistant Director, IT Instructional Technology Center St. Michael's College Box C, One Winooski Park Colchester, VT 05439 802 654-2821 We've been successfully using SmartBoards and Sympodia (the large-scale version of Smartboard) for a couple of years now. The language classes use them in several different ways. One of the more creative ways was to use the Smartboard as a backdrop to a "news bureau" in French--students used RealPlayer sites to project the news video behind them (with the mute on) as they "read" the news in French to their classmates and annotate the pertinent items as they are speaking. That particular instructor also used the Smartboard to show French DVD's from his computer, and circled important characters as they appeared. Another way the equipment was used in a Spanish class was to project sentences in scrambled order and to have students come up to the board and physically move the words around. In ESL, a landscape scene was projected with a list of vocabulary words pertaining to items in the landscape. Students moved the words around on the picture to match word with image. We haven't used it in Russian yet, but another use I saw somewhere was in Chinese, using the SmartBoard to illustrate the stroke order of Chinese characters. It's a great piece of technology, and has practically unlimited uses! Regards, Sue Sue Breeyear, Asst. Director Information Technology St. Michael's College Colchester, VT 05439