IWB reflection

This assignment was a great way to get us to really use the IWB technology and become more familiar with it.  My first time around, I put in a good amount of time collecting resources but ended up making my first IWB as more of a powerpoint presentation.  The second time around, I put much more time into it.  I really found better resources and used that information to build more interactive pages to my lesson.  I tried to be creative in the way to get them to think about the Civil War but still make it somewhat fun.  I put a lot of time into this as I made a lot more pages than show up in my final IWB.  I created multiple interactive pages and then tried them out to see how they would flow in the lesson.  I finally decided which ones helped the best for the students and plugged them in.  I'm really proud of my state matching page and I'm happy that Professor Boyer was able to show me a new way to present the answers to pages without taking up space.  This will be beneficial for the future.  I would say I put in a great amount of time into this.  Not only did I re-do the IWB to make it more interactive, but I really sat down and thought of ways to make it better for the students.

I believe that this assignment was a great expierence for us as future teachers.  Like I said above, it really had us use all of the tools with SMART notebook and we were able to explore other resources for items that we could use in our lesson.  This assignment had me exploring the SMART exchange site a lot and that is a great resource to help with IWB lessons.  I now know through doing this lesson how benefitcial it is to engage the students into this type of lesson and I learned that it is pretty easy to make a lesson on here once I put my mind to it.  With the ease of making a lesson such as this, I feel like I could make these for almost any topic and that this would be a good and easy technology to have in the classroom.