We have our new Middle School Lab – my classroom – fully operational. We installed the SMARTboard last week. We have only to add an in-room printer and it will be complete.

When we assembled the table we set the height at 28 inches, which is working very well. We have a carpeted floor so we all have swivel chairs. We also have room for work tables in the center of the room, and plenty of closet space for all sorts of supplies and equipment.

We have four host computers and sixteen clients. We are running N-Computing for our environment. The only drawback is we don’t have a USB in the clients.

All in all, it’s a great space. I hope great things will happen here!

http://www.community.teqsmart.org/download.php – Tequipment’s Educator Resource Center

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/ – Smart Technologies’ Educators’ Resources and Classroom Solutions

http://exchange.smarttech.com/ – “We’re turning this passion into the SMART Exchange, a community of teachers, administrators and SMART experts sharing ideas, expertise and enthusiasm to create extraordinary moments in the classroom.”

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Teachers+Hub/default.htm?WT.mc_id=EdHomeHUB

- “Puzzled about what to do next with your SMART education technology products? There’s no need to be. Our Teachers’ Hub will help you put everything together – one piece at a time.”

http://www.interactivewhiteboard.net.au – “Interactivewhiteboard.net.au aims to be the leading authority on interactive whiteboards and their use in education in Australia. This website is not about sales of products. Rather its aim is to encourage and support teachers and other educators who are committed to interactive learning environments in today’s 21st century classrooms.” Here is the lessons page – http://www.interactivewhiteboard.net.au/lesson.asp.

InteractiveWhiteboards in the Classroom. This page was created with support from a U.S. Department of Education PT3 grant (”Join Together”, P342A030098).

Silvia Tolisano is teacher in Florida. She was born in Germany, and raised in Argentina. Her blog, Langwitches, is liberally salted with a great many links for SMARTboard activities. If you follow the right column in her blog down to ‘Categories’, find SmartBoard, and click it, it will aggregate all of the post she has written about SMARTboards or cited links to them.

http://Talking SMARTboards & Much More – Sharing ideas to use the SMARTboard in a Special Ed classroom. Find her ‘Categories’ on the right and click ’smartboard’.

http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/ – ” All smart board educators, unite! Let’s share ideas, tips, and lesson files to maximize learning for the children. They are our future. Let’s teach them well and let them…something or other. I can’t think of anything right now.”

Teachers Love SMART Boards – James Hollis is SMARTboard sales and support
person from Illinois, who I came across on Twitter. Jim corrects me below – “I appreciate that you listed my Teachers Love SMART Board blog and I just thought I would mention that I’m not associated with Smart Technologies in any way. I’m just a teacher and technology trainer trying to help teachers use SMART Boards more effectively.”