Designing Effective Interactive Lessons

Different Uses of the SmartBoard:

• Teacher Centered
  • Demonstrate
    • (whole class instruction)
• Student Centered
  • (individual, small group instruction)
• Activity Center
  • (reinforce/practise concepts already introduced)

What are the different ways the SmartBoard can be used as an Instructional Tool?

• as an "interactive" whiteboard

  • writing on it

  • clicking responses

  • revealing hidden text

• like a manipulative

  • moving objects

  • sorting & categorizing

• as a viewing surface

• Demonstration and Interactive tool

• • Example: shared reading

  • Interactive
    • students respond
    • students try application

    • allows use of interactive web sites geared to a variety of learning styles

What makes a digital lesson work or successful?
* the lesson isn’t too glitzy too flashy
* students do not get lost in the glitz and bells ans whistles that they can not
understand what they are to be learning
* consistent fonts
What is the best size and style of fonts to use?
* interactive
* powerful content rich
* can be archived and used or modified again
What was successful and not so successful is documented
* shareable
* reaching every learning styles of the students in the classroom if possible
* connectivity
Links to the WEB and other resources, Video streaming.....
* Focus more on content
- If the lesson is created ahead of time / already prepared
- Then the teacher can focus more on delivering the content and interacting with
the students
- Checking for understanding
* More student focused
* Adaptable to the different learning styles in the classroom

* Immediate feedback is provided using multiple forms of media
* Lessons are designed where the student is the one who needs to interact with the material, not the teacher
* Multiple types of media are used to present the information