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Showing posts with label MOBI creative uses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOBI creative uses. Show all posts
“Your students are tired of watching their teacher use the smartboard.” - TIES Trainer
If you expect most or every student to use the smartboard, keep the activity quick and easy. Instead of having students write with the MOBI or Smartboard, have them just move an object or make a mark.
The first few times a student uses a MOBI or Smartboard, they will be very slow. Therefore, allow time for students to play and explore the smartboard during a time when you can help them, like indoor recess or morning work.
Morning Sign in: Using the shapes toolin Smartboard Notebook, you can quickly create a shape with the students name on it. Then when they arrive in the morning, they can do their lunch count, make a graph, or even put their name in a Venn Diagram.
Have your students use the smartboard or MOBI as a Center. After you have taught a lesson or activity with the whole class, you can begin assigning it as a center. At first, the rest of the class will be a bit distracted by this, but after a few days, it will become just one of the centers they will rotate to.
During independent work time, have a few students write their answers on the smartboard or MOBI. This way, when everyone is done, you can go over together the answers together, and you don’t have to make your class wait while the student writes their answer on the board.
A third grade teacher uses the MOBI frequently. One way that she uses the MOBI is to highlight passages as she reads it to students. She can show her students her thinking as she reads the piece. The multiple colors and ease of marking help her engage and connect with students.
Preparation:
Scan in the passage.
Lesson:
Open up the file
Open IW and click on the Pen
Change pen colors to engage and instruct
Extensions:
Find passages online, and use those, rather than scan the pages in.
Print out copies of IW file to give to students who were absent
Allow students to read a piece that have already read before to the class and show their thinking as they read it.
A teacher an Aquila uses the MOBIs once a week to do a quick review of spelling.
Goal: Keep students engaged while reviewing spelling words.
Prep time: none
Lesson:
1. She connects the MOBI and opens up a new page in Interwrite Workspace 2. She hands the MOBI to a student. The rest of the students have their whiteboards from the HM Math Expressions program. 3. She says a spelling word. All students are expected to write it. The student with the mobi writes it on the MOBI. 4. The class compares their word to the word on the board. 5. The student makes corrections as necessary and passes the MOBI to the student sitting next to him or her. 6. The next student writes the word on another part of the screen.
Extensions:
1. Have students highlight (using the highlighter pen) parts of the word that are tricky 2. Have another student write another word related to the previous word (an antonym, synonym, homonym, capitonym, word family, root word, etc...)
Video:
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in Smartboard Notebook, you can quickly create a shape with the students name on it. Then when they arrive in the morning, they can do their lunch count, make a graph, or even put their name in a Venn Diagram.
