Designing an IWB

Creating a SMARTboard lesson plan was very instructional and a valuable learning experience because SMARTboards are used in nearly every classroom. It is also a useful technology to use with and teach to students of all ages. When designing this lesson plan, a lot of effort was put into searching through the several websites that offer help with this! I bookmarked 20 websites that I loved the ideas. When finally deciding on a lesson, I ended up using ideas from 3 websites. I then went straight into the SMARTnotebook, and started playing around with what the notebook offers. I didn't end up using the first lesson I designed simply because after playing around with it another day, I found so many more cool things, like the gallery for pictures and animations. After I met with my partner, I was given advice to make things more interesting looking, such as adding color in the background. I'm a believer in keeping the font normal and black, so things aren't too overstimulating; however, I did add some color. I was tempted to use the gradients offerred, but again, it might be too overstimulation, especially in special education. My biggest struggle came when designing the game at the end. I needed to create a finish line, but I couldn't find one. Instead, I used a hurdle, used the green mover to tilt the hurdle and then tilted the number line. In the end, it really did look like a finish line. I also needed to figure out how to flip the runner, which was actually easy. All I needed to use was the right click button.
Creating an IWB impacts my future career as a teacher because research is coming out with support for the use of SMARTboards in Special Education classrooms. Since I am going into Special Education, I need to understand at minimum beyond the basics. This lesson gave me insight to the abilities that not only the SMARTboard but also other technologies possess. I look forward to sharing my lesson plan, especially because I will get constructive criticism back that will make my lesson plan even better!
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