Here are many links that will be helpful for your SmartBoard experience. These links come from many devoted people that have either made or searched the internet to find the tools for your teaching.

Care for Projectors and SmartBoards

1. SMART Board 600 Series Installation and User's Guide - a 56 page file
2. Quick Help for 600 Series Interactive Whiteboards - a one-page troubleshooting guide
3. How to Remove Permanent Ink from a Front Projection SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard - this one-page document also includes tips for long-term care
4. Smart Technologies Support page
5. Use and Care for Smart Boards - Rockingham County Public Schools

Training

1. Educator Resources - from Smart Technologies
2. Instructions and Training Documents - Kenton County School District
3. Anecdotal accounts of how electronic whiteboards have improved teaching and learning
4. Set up directions for SmartBoard - Rockingham County Public Schools
5. SmartBoard Follow up - training to show ways to customize the SmartBoard to best fit your teaching needs (from Rachel Yurk & Toni Heinowski - New Berlin Public Schools)
6. SmartBoard Training 2.3 - information on beginning use of Board
7. SmartBoard Help Files - PDF files to help in using SmartBoards; Forrest City School District

Interactive Sites

1. Building Smarter Ways to Use the Smart Board and Support Math Core Content
2. Interactive Literacy Sites - teacher created resources from the Teacher's Guide
3. Interactive Math Sites - teacher created resources from the Teacher's Guide
4. K-3 activities to use on a SmartBoard - from Julie Thompson
5. Number Line - a whiteboard tool posted by MathsOnline
6. Smart Board Resources - from Center School District
7. Smart Board Resources - from Royal Oaks Elementary,Woodbury, MN
8. Smart Board Resources - from Lee's Summit, MO
9. Crickweb - from the United Kingdom- all subject areas interactive learning games and activities
10. Rainforest Maths by Jenny Eather- math activities for K-6th grade  students
11. Matching Math Activities - interactive math matching games from Oswego City School District
12. Topmarks - Primary math, literacy and science activities from the United Kingdom
13. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives- math manipulatives and math activities from Utah State University
14. Sheppard Software - educational games and activities, especially for geography

 

SmartBoard Lessons

1. Building Smarter Ways to Use the Smart Board and Support Math Core Content - Downloadable templates
2. Fusion Workshop - online resources, documents, tutorials and lessons
3. Interactive Whiteboard Resources - Downloadable templates
4. Instructing with Smart Boards - this 24-page document includes lesson ideas with embedded links to Internet sites to be used as lesson resources
5. Interactive Literacy Sites for the SmartBoard - Primary grades
6. Interactive Math Sites for the SmartBoard - variety of sites to choose from
7. Lesson Plans - 44 pages of lesson plans and ideas to use in your classroom!
8. Lesson Activities - can only be used with SMART Ideas software
9. Primary Resources for Interactive Whiteboards - a UK site with excellent resources for a primary classroom
10. SmartBoard Lessons - Downloadable templates Wichita Public Schools (zip files)
11. SmartBoard Lessons - posted by Rockingham County Public Schools in Virginia
12. SmartBoard Resources and Lessons - Albany School District
13. Smartboard Templates - These templates require the Smart Notebook software, Kidspiration. Inspiration,Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer and KidPix to use
14. Using Electronic Whiteboards in Your Classroom - Profiles, ideas, lesson plans and web sites
15. K-12 Lessons - Posted files to download from the Lakeland School District

 

Smartboard Resources

1. Demonstration of Objects available in the Gallery - some of the objects embedded in this 33 slide show are interactive
2. Freebies - free applications to run on the whiteboard in your classroom; Ball, Fridge Letters, Tic Tac Toe, & Number Spinner
3. Graph Paper to use with your Smartboard! - You can print out a variety of graph paper or just open up the PDF file and use it on your Smartboard!
4. Number Line - a whiteboard tool posted by MathsOnline
5. Internet4Teachers- A vast resource of helpful links
6. Teachers Love SMART Boards- Forum and resources to share with others
7. SMART Board Lessons Podcasts-  Subscribe for free and access archived lessons, download to iTunes or receive emails with newest episodes

   OR just visit this website and listen to the latest episode.

8. YouTube SMART Board Videos- See the power of using SMART products in a variety of learning environments with this collection of videos created by teachers and SMART staff.

 

Interactive Video Classrooms

1. Heritage South Distance Learning
2. Preparing to Teach Online
3. Descriptions of equipment in an IVC
4. Policy Options for Interactive Video in K–12 Education