Welcome teachers to the SMART Cloud resources session!

Brain Rules website by John Medina

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Getting to Know the Teachers Grade: Higher Ed Subject: SMART Date: August 18, 2011

What kind of resources on the web do you use? 1 What kind of resources on the web do you use? A interactive websites for the students B informational websites on what's current in my field C Websites that have information and activity 
​ideas for instruction you can choose multiple answers

Do you use web resources during instruction? 2 Do you use web resources during instruction? Yes No

Students type their answers here 3 How many years have you been teaching? type in the number Students type their answers here

Students type their answers here 4 What is your favorite website that you use for 
​school or in school? Students type their answers here

Skype The SMART Exchange SMART Notebook Express Interactive websites How to stay ahead of the curve

Skype The SMART Exchange SMART Notebook Express Interactive websites How to stay ahead of the curve

The SMART Exchange Hands-on Search for lessons Preview the lesson Download it

The SMART Exchange Hands-on Edit the lesson you downloaded by changing a word 
​or a piece of the content You may need to unlock or ungroup some of the 
​content before editing Be sure to also search for attendance, there are 
​some very cute files!

The SMART Exchange Hands-on Go back to your search results and select Images and/or another file type under Narrow Results Look at the new results and their file types. Download an image (There are a lot of curriculum based and holiday imagesfree for teachers to use!)

Join the SMART Exchange Hands-on

Connect with Other Teachers

Connect with Other Teachers Hands-on

Share your SMART Notebook files

Training

Training Hands-on Take the Needs Assessment Sign in to SMART Learning Space with your 
​Username and Password you used for the SMART 
​Exchange Take the Needs Assessment Now when you go back and sign in you can start watching the videos!

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SMART Notebook Express hands-on Download SMART Notebook Express Open the file you downloaded earlier from the 
​SMART Exchange using Notebook Express

Skype The SMART Exchange SMART Notebook Express Interactive websites How to stay ahead of the curve

Integrate .swf files Hands-on (Use Mozilla if possible!) Go to the page you like and select full-screen Click file>Save As and save to the desktop Open a Notebook file Select Insert>Flash File Then, use the resize handle to enlarge it!

Link resources Hands-on Choose Link Select Save Put an object on the page, or a screen capture Left click the object and select the drop-down 
​menu Choose Link Copy and paste the web address of the page into 
​the space Click the button for Object Select Save

Download Hands-on Download a file or two and play with them!

Integrate Multimedia

Find a video that you could use in the classroom Hands-on Go to YouTube Find a video that you could use in the classroom Copy the URL Go to www.zamzar.com Paste the URL Choose to convert it to .wmv Link it to a SMART Notebook file

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Collaborate on projects Web 2.0 Collaborate on projects Connect with other teachers Discover new teaching inspiration

Skype Hands-on Create a Skype account first (there is a link there) Go to Skype in the classroom Create a Skype account first (there is a link there) Create an education account If you prefer not to create an account, 
​please browse the projects and see what is 
​available!

What cloud resources do you like to use?

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EdCompass Newsletter Hands-on Sign up for the newsletter if you would like!

SMART YouTube Hands-on

Google Reader Hands-on Add a few RSS feeds (real simple syndicate) Sign-up using your current email Add a few RSS feeds (real simple syndicate)

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Kasey Benesch, Education Consultant kasey@chariotgroup.com cell 206.265.9212