Happy Friday! As I sit here writing this post, I've just returned home from one of the best professional development sessions I've ever attended -- the Digital Citizenship Symposium in Calgary (#DCSCal), which was hosted by the fantabulous duo of Alec Couros and Dean Shareski. My head is spinning with the amazing people I met, the great ideas that were shared and the thought-provoking discussions that were had by all.
There's so much to tell, so much to share and so much to write about for future blog posts. But I'm going to have to digest for awhile before I spew my ideas onto the virtual pages of this website.
Yup! You're going to have wait for the future blog posts of brilliance to fall upon you. ;) And now, onto today's blog post...
Today's Fresh Look Fridays post features one of my all-time favourite websites for use on a SMART Board -- Mister Teacher. Long story short, this site is full of fantastic mini-movies for exploration and visual reinforcement of key concepts in Math and Science. These mini movies (created by a member of my Twitter PLN - @jtubbs), are written as .swf files meaning...wait for it...that they can be downloaded and EMBEDDED within SMART Notebook! Woot woot!
Explore some of my favourites such as:
And:
SMART Notebook tip: After downloading the files that you want to keep, go into Notebook and select "Insert" then "Flash File" to put these interactive mini-movies directly onto your Notebook page. Presto! No loading, no buffering, no waiting for the internet to load and no worrying about broken links. What a great website full of supplementary activities for students to explore as well as enhancing the teacher led portion of your lessons.
Have a great weekend!
Vanessa :)
