SMART Board presentation

For my SMART board presentation I chose a secondary social studies lesson about the Hitler's rise to power.

The Social Studies/History EALR for 10th grade, in regards to technology, has two points. The first point wants students to be able to "investigate and research" using both technological and human resources. If I would have made the lesson I presented I would have added links to each page and for each statistic or piece of information. I loved the way the slides were presented and the interaction they required, but there was no citations anywhere, which bothered me a little bit. The second point of this EALR wants students to understand the "origin and impact of ideas" and to analyze the effect technology has on society and history. I'm sure how much this EALR was met with through the presentation, but I sure it could be tweaked to do so. However, the idea of this assignment was to show how information could be presented using new technological tools. If I were to meet this EALR, I would have used the tools in my presentation to talk about technological inventions and the history and impact of them.

I'm going to incorporate the SMART board and the clickers in my presentation. I'm going to run through my presentation and select students to participate via a random selection using the clicker system. In order to prepare for the activity, I will acquire a list of students and faculty that will be present for the presentation and add them into the clicker system. Then I will pass the correct clicker to the correct person, so the random selection will make sense. I have run through my presentation a few times just to become familiar with what the purpose of each slide is and how best to incorporate the class. Also I deleted two slides in the presentation because of their redundantness. Like I said, the students will be selected at random to participate in the lesson (I think this is best, because it takes the pressure off of students to volunteer and the teacher to select them), by either writing with the pens, using the eraser, dragging and dropping, and the whole class will answer a question collectively. There really wasn't an assessment portion of this lesson as it was. If I had created it I might have added a review slide of all the information, or maybe a review handout, or maybe this presentation was the review for an upcoming test on this information.

I think that students could benefit from technology in the classroom. The clickers I like because you can incorporate each student into the disscussion. I also think that the SMART board brings the teacher out from behind the desk or the podium and into the direct view of the students. The teacher can also bring the students up out their desks and use them to interact with the class and the lesson through the use of the SMART board. I know that all students learn differently and with the SMART board use can incorporate video, sound, touch, sight, and repitition. I think it is awesome!