Smart+Notebook

The smart notebook is a great technical quality to add to a classroom. I created a smart notebook for a lesson plan on shapes of volcanoes for students in 1st grade. With the smart notebook I was able to attach many pictures, create different activities that could be done right on the smart board as well as create great designs. With this lesson plan I was trying to guide the children to understand the different shapes and types of volcanoes using new vocabulary and many interactive tools to keep their minds thinking. For example I created a game where the students would pick a volcano, from the multiple flashing pictures and have to guess, out of the three answers given, which answer was right. It would then tell them if they were right or wrong and give the right answer. I believe that tools like this are great activities for students, so that they can continuously be engaged and using their new and previous knowledge. Although I believe smart board is a great teaching and interactive lesson source, I did run into some problems. First, whenever I were to go back to the beginning of the lesson I found that many of the different tools or designs such as blinking or twirling of the letters or images, would be frozen half off the page or in the wrong direction. As well as the designs being wrong half of my text or all of it would be missing. I believe that if I were to use this program in the future I would be a little hesitant to use it because of the stress and un-user friendly of a system it was to go back to what I had previously had created even in the saved folder, it seemed to be corrupted. I believe that I am used to power points in which you can do a lot of the same things besides the interactive quiz's and such, but I would still prefer that over this when it comes to sending it to email or other resources online, which are easy to do and just copy or download onto a different computer. I believe that using SMART notebook in a classroom would be very fun for the students. I would use it for quiz's on subjects like math. Its a fun way to have the students work together and feed off of each others knowledge. I believe I learned a lot using the SMART notebook. I would like to get more practice, but overall I feel like I am able to create another lesson using SMART notebook in the future with little or no problems.