Using your SMART board in your classroom can have multiple benefits to you and your students. SMART boards are fun and engaging for students and make your job as a teacher a little bit easier. And who doesn't want that?

WAYS YOU CAN USE THE SMART BOARD IN YOUR CLASSROOM:

• As a projector for movies and powerpoint presenations
• Interactive games for almost ANY subject
• In some ways, your SMART board takes place of the overhead projector and your whiteboard. (You can build your own templates for various subjects- and trust me, there are templates for ANYTHING you can think of)
• If you would like, your SMART board can be used like a computer monitor. Showing the whole class any research or photographs, video clips and illustrations that you find on the internet or have brought from home on a flash drive.  

SMART board resources are abundant on the web. There are tutorials, applications you can download, premade interactive powerpoints; the list just goes on!

The links below are for great tutorials to get you acquainted with the SMART board and its' capabilities.

http://stusupport.curry.edu/SMARTBoardTutorials.html

http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Teachers+Hub/Getting+started/SBiW.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwla8E6jz4g

These next group of links will take you to sites that are great for lesson ideas using the SMART board and some different activities that you can use:

http://exchange.smarttech.com/search.html?m=01

http://www.scholastic.com/interactivewhiteboards/

http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/

http://www.mrshurleysesl.com/smartboards/index.html