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__**Sharp and Savvy Day One - Morning Part 1**__
//**This workshop explores dozens of ideas on how to use a smartboard in the classroom, adapting existing notebook projects, and integrating resources for your subject area.**// First: Watch the 2 Minute Tutorials: > __**Orient the Whiteboard**__
 * [|Notebook Software Basics]
 * [|Touch Write and Save]
 * Press the right mouse button and on-screen keyboard buttons on the pen try simultaneously for five seconds. Follow the directions on the orientation screen.

__**Ideas**__ > > > ==== __**Assignment: Explore the following websites. What are the characteristics of an engaging website for use with the SMARTboard?**__ ==== >> [|Create a Graph]
 * Velcro the eraser, pens, and remote control to the board.
 * Use a soft mallet instead of fingers on the board
 * Use a wireless keyboard for typing
 * If you can't install the SMARTboard software on all your computers, use a USB storage device that can be moved from computer to computer.
 * [|Flash-based Websites]
 * [|Teacher Tap: Interactive Websites]
 * [|BBC Schools]
 * [|Scholastic Activities]
 * [|Teacher Tap: Electronic Books]
 * **Language Arts**
 * [|ReadWriteThink Tools for Students]
 * BBC Schools: [|English], [|Language], [|Literature], [|Literature & Language]
 * [|Star Fall]
 * **Science**
 * [|Discovery Animal Guide]
 * [|E-nature]
 * [|EdHeads] - [|Virtual Knee Surgery], [|Weather], [|Simple Machines]
 * [|Jefferson Lab] - Science Resources
 * [|National Geographic Habitats]
 * Sciencelinks: [|Tools Index]
 * [|Virtual Rainforest]
 * **Social Studies**
 * [|Ancient Greece] from BBC
 * [|Anicent Romans] from BBC
 * [|Archiving Early America]
 * [|Bens' Guide to Government]
 * [|First Gov for Kids]
 * National Geographic - [|Xpeditions]
 * [|Timeline Maker]
 * [|US History] from PBS
 * [|US Mint: State Quarters]
 * **Math**
 * [|BBC]
 * [|BBC Math]
 * [|BBC Algebra]
 * [|BBC Algebra: Foundation] & [|Intermediate]
 * [|BBC Shape, Space, Measure]
 * BBC Study Skills - [|Algebra]
 * [|Illuminations Tools] - Dozens of Interactive Tools!
 * [|Illuminations: Algebra Tools 9-12]
 * [|Illuminations: Geometry Tools 9-12]
 * [|Virtual Manipulatives]