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Pearson has recently released resources for use with Math Investigations in SMART Notebook format. You do not need a SMART Board to take advantage of these materials. Here is a brief overview from Pearson:

Investigations Curriculum Units. These session files support content presented in the Curriculum Units so that the teacher and students can demonstrate, display, and record content from Classroom Routines, Activities, Discussions, Assessments, and Games. Each session has a separate file which includes the following slides: interactive whiteboard screens. Curriculum Unit along with related tools or images for the activity. more slides with related content when appropriate.
 * Using SMART Notebook™ for Grades K–2 **
 * Overview ** The interactive whiteboard session files are designed to be used in conjunction with the
 * Each ** Session Opener ** indicates the parts of that session with active links to the session’s
 * Each ** Classroom Routine ** displays a tab with text from the session’s opener page in the
 * Each ** Activity **, ** Discussion ** , ** Math Workshop ** , and/or ** Assessment Activity ** may have one or

Investigations Curriculum Units. These session files support content presented in the Curriculum Units so that the teacher and students can demonstrate, display, and record content from Ten-Minute Maths, Activities, Discussions, Assessments, and Games. Each session has a separate file which includes the following slides: interactive whiteboard screens. Curriculum Unit along with related tools or images for the activity. more slides with related content when appropriate.
 * Using SMART Notebook™ for Grades 3–5 **
 * Overview ** The interactive whiteboard session files are designed to be used in conjunction with the
 * Each ** Session Opener ** indicates the parts of that session with active links to the session’s
 * Each ** Ten-Minute Math ** displays a tab with text from the session’s opener page in the
 * Each ** Activity **, ** Discussion ** , ** Math Workshop ** , and/or ** Assessment Activity ** may have one or

If you are interested in gaining access to these materials, let me know and we will set up a time for an Instructional Technology Support visit.

Liane Dattilo Education Technology Teacher Computer Education Support 485-3010


 * 012 Bucket List **

What is on your technology bucket list for 2011-2012? What would you like to learn before year's end? Is it time to tackle Twitter? Want a class wiki? Ready to explore tools for making comics or other types of digital storytelling? Wish you used your SMART Board more effectively? Want to learn more about your document camera?

I’m available to help with any Instructional Technology strategies. Send me an email if I can be of any assistance. Make 2012 the year you kick the tech bucket!

f you happen to have a free afternoon tomorrow (Oct.26) and also have a hunger for some tech PD, join me at Norton Elementary 4:30p-6:30p.

4:30-5:30 Liane Dattilo teaching about SMART Document Camera and Adding interactivity to your SMART Notebook lessons

5:30-6:30 Debbie Smith (Norton Lab teacher and STC extraordinaire) covering Scholastic Keys, and Read Write Gold

No need to sign up on PD Central, just show up!

**ubject:** Check out these new titles in the Professional Library

Check for availability of these NEW instructional technology titles in the Professional Library catalog at http://tinyurl.com/proflib :

Enhance learning and encourage high-order thinking by incorporating a technology project for every week of the school year. Designed to help 3rd-grade students develop key technology skills in word processing, spreadsheets, multimedia presentations, and using the Internet while you teach regular classroom content. **371.33 Kop **
 * //32 Quick & Easy Content Area Computer Activities : A Technology Project for Every Week of the School //** **//Year//** by Kathy Kopp (Shell Education, 2008).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Quick daily math exercises for the interactive whiteboard help students strengthen the skills they need to succeed in class and on standardized tests in grades 4-8. Using the ready-to-go ActivInspire files, students practice key math skills, including simplifying fractions, working with improper and mixed fractions, ordering decimals, calculating fraction and decimal equivalents, and more. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">372.7 Saf **
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5-Minute Fractions & Decimals Practice : 180 Quick & Motivating Activities Students Can Use to Practice Essential Math Skills - Every Day of the School Year //**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Jill Safro <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains 180 activities designed to help students in grades four to eight develop grammar skills, covering nouns and pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, contractions, sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, and other topics. Includes a whiteboard compatible CD. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">372.6 Sta **
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5-Minute Grammar Practice : 180 Quick & Motivating Activities Students Can Use to Practice Essential Grammar Skills--Every Day of the School Year //**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Judith Bauer Stamper <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains 180 five-minute activities aimed at developing proofreading skills in fourth through eighth grade students, and includes a CD with Notebook files which are compatible with SMART boards. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">372.41 Saf **
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5-Minute Proofreading Practice : 180 Quick & Motivating Activities Students Can Use to Practice Essential Proofreading Skills--Every Day of the School Year //**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">by Jill Safro <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Scholastic, c2009).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Demonstrates how educators can use the Internet to enhance student communication through hands-on projects. Contains project ideas throughout and tips on teamwork, Internet research, information evaluation, and thinking skills. **371.33 Bel**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Classrooms Without Borders : Using Internet Projects to Teach Communication and Collaboration //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by James A. Bellanca (Teachers College Press, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains screen shots and step-by-step instructions for using SMART Notebook software to create interactive lessons for use in kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms, and includes a companion DVD. **371.33 Jea**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Creating Smart Board Lessons : Yes, You Can! //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Marcia Jeans (Scholastic, c2010).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Chiropractor Dr. Alan Sokoloff explains what carpal tunnel syndrome is, the causes, and ways to prevent it. He discusses proper exercises for hand and wrist health, proper use of wrist splints, hobbies and home activities, healthy ways to use a computer and keyboard, and whether surgery is a useful option. **DVD 613.6 Sok**
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hands On //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">( <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Library Video Network, c2004).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Offers step-by-step instructions on how teachers can use social networking sites, Google, podcasts, blogs, and other online resources in their classroom curriculum. **371.33 Hig**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">High-Tech Teaching Success! : A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Innovative Technology in Your Classroom //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Prufrock, c2010).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Provides an introduction to interactive whiteboards, discusses their benefits in the classroom, and features thirty interactive whiteboard activities designed to engage first grade students in learning math, reading, writing, science, and social studies. Includes a teacher resource CD. **371.33 Par**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Interactive Whiteboards Made Easy : 30 Activities to Engage All Learners //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(Level 1)** by Stephanie Paris (Shell Education, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Provides an introduction to interactive whiteboards, discusses their benefits in the classroom, and features thirty interactive whiteboard activities designed to engage second grade students in learning math, reading, writing, science, and social studies. Includes a teacher resource CD. **371.33 Par**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Interactive Whiteboards Made Easy : 30 Activities to Engage All Learners //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(Level 2)** by Stephanie Paris (Shell Education, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Provides an introduction to interactive whiteboards, discusses their benefits in the classroom, and features thirty interactive whiteboard activities designed to engage third grade students in learning math, reading, writing, science, and social studies. Includes a teacher resource CD. **371.33 Mur**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Interactive Whiteboards Made Easy : 30 Activities to Engage All Learners //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(Level 3)** by Mark Murphy (Shell Education, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Provides an introduction to interactive whiteboards, discusses their benefits in the classroom, and features thirty interactive whiteboard activities designed to engage fourth-grade students in learning math, reading, writing, science, and social studies. Includes a teacher resource CD. **371.33 Bak**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Interactive Whiteboards Made Easy : 30 Activities to Engage All Learners //****<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> (Level 4) **<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Michelle Baker (Shell Education, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Provides an introduction to interactive whiteboards, discusses their benefits in the classroom, and features thirty interactive whiteboard activities designed to engage fifth grade students in learning math, reading, writing, science, and social studies. Includes a teacher resource CD. **371.33 Kro**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Interactive Whiteboards Made Easy : 30 Activities to Engage All Learners //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(Level 5)** by Karen Kroeter (Shell Education, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Provides an introduction to interactive whiteboards, discusses their benefits in the classroom, and features thirty interactive whiteboard activities designed to engage sixth grade students in learning math, reading, writing, science, and social studies. Includes a teacher resource CD. **371.33 Par**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Interactive Whiteboards Made Easy : 30 Activities to Engage All Learners //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(Level 6)** by Stephanie Paris (Shell Education, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">A guide for principals who want to implement technology in their schools in order to improve student achievement and engagement, covering developing a technology leadership team, addressing cyber safety, implementing professional development, and assessing technical needs, students learning, and teacher performance; and including field-tested tools. **371.33 Gra**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Leading the Technology-Powered School //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Marilyn L. Grady (Corwin Press, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains resources and interactive whiteboard activities to teach mathematical skills and concepts in second- and third-grade classrooms; including lesson plans, reproducible pages, and a CD; and covering addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, measurement, data analysis, 2-D and 3-D shapes, and more. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">372.7 Mon **
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Math Lessons for the Smart Board : Motivating, Interactive Lessons that Teach Key Math Skills (Grades 2-3) //**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Ann Montague-Smith <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Provides resources for interactive whiteboard activities for kindergarten and first-grade math classes, including lesson plans, reproducible pages, and a CD and covering numbers, counting, patterning, time, measurement, shapes, and more. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">372.7 Mon **
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Math Lessons for the Smart Board : Motivating, Interactive Lessons that Teach Key Math Skills (Grades K-1) //**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Ann Montague-Smith <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">An interactive CD-ROM with whiteboard activities for teachers of grades PreK-2 covering counting, shapes, patterns, and number recognition in preschool through second-grade classrooms. Includes a user's guide with step-by-step instructions and screen-shots. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">507.1 Mat **
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mathematics //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Shell Education, 2010).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">A guide to the learning content management system Moodle that explains how to create a front page, add content and resources, incorporate chats and blogs, build and score quizzes, and more. **371.33 Dvo**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Moodle for Dummies //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Radka Radana Dvorak (Wiley, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains over sixty primary source documents for use with the interactive whiteboard that provide information about Colonial America, the Westward Movement, and the Civil War, with background information, guiding questions, and activities for students in grades four to eight. **371.33 Bai**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Primary Sources for the Interactive Whiteboard : Colonial America, Westward Movement, Civil War //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Karen Baicker (Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains lessons for the SMART Board designed to help students in kindergarten to first grade master skills in grammar, spelling, word choice, summarizing, and other reading and writing tasks, and includes activities on CD. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;"> 372.62 Rea **
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reading & Writing Lessons for the Smart Board : Motivating, Interactive Lessons that Teach Key Reading & Writing Skills //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains lessons for the SMART Board designed to help students in grades two to three master skills in grammar, spelling, word choice, summarizing, and other reading and writing tasks, and includes activities on CD. **372.62 Rea**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reading & Writing Lessons for the Smart Board : Motivating, Interactive Lessons that Teach Key Reading & Writing Skills //****<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Grades 2-3) **<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> (Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains lessons for the SMART Board designed to help students in grades four to six master skills in grammar, spelling, word choice, summarizing, and other reading and writing tasks, and includes activities on CD. **372.62 Rea**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reading & Writing Lessons for the Smart Board : Motivating, Interactive Lessons that Teach Key Reading & Writing Skills //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(Grades 4-6)** (Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">An interactive CD-ROM with whiteboard activities for teachers covering the weather, animals, food groups, and living and non-living things in preschool through second-grade classrooms. Includes a user's guide with step-by-step instructions and screen-shots. **372.3 Sci**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Science //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[electronic resource] (Shell Education, 2010).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Provides resources for interactive whiteboard activities for first- through third-grade science classes, including lesson plans, reproducible pages, and a CD and covering plants, animals, rocks, soil, magnetism, electricity, and more. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">372.3 Car **
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Science lessons for the smart board : motivating, interactive lessons that teach key science skills //**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(Grades 1-3)** by Sarah Carpenter <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Provides resources for interactive whiteboard activities for fourth- through sixth-grade science classes, including lesson plans, reproducible pages, and a CD and covering the human body, food chains, matter, forces, energy, and more. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">372.3 Aud **
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Science Lessons for the Smart Board : Motivating, Interactive Lessons that Teach Key Science Skills //**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(Grades 4-6)** by Jon Audain <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains forty ready-to-use lessons and activities for interactive whiteboards designed to help students in grades three through six improve their expository writing skills. **372.62 Kel**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Smart Board Lessons : Expository Writing //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Karen Kellaher (Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains forty ready-to-use lessons and activities for interactive whiteboards designed to help students in grades three through six improve their persuasive writing skills. **372.62 Kel**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Smart Board Lessons : Persuasive Writing //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Karen Kellaher (Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">An interactive CD-ROM with whiteboard activities for teachers covering how to dress for the weather, knowing one's phone number, places in a community, and knowing where food comes from in preschool through second-grade classrooms. Includes a user's guide with step-by-step instructions and screen-shots. **372.83 Soc**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Social Studies //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Shell Education, 2010).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Describes how instructional strategies can be integrated with technology to engage students and promote information fluency, persuasion skills, communication, collaboration, and problem solving; and includes over seventy handouts and activities. **371.33 Fer**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Teaching the iGeneration : 5 Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills with Web 2.0 Tools //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by William M. Ferriter (Solution Tree Press, c2010).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Offers teachers of grades three and up practical ideas and simple techniques for incorporating wikis, blogs, podcasts, and other digital resources in the classroom, and includes reproducible worksheets for classroom activities. **006.7 Fit**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Teaching with Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts & More //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> By Kathleen Fitzgibbon (Scholastic, c2010).

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Tells what blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds, social networking sites, and video sharing sites are, and how these new technologies are being used by libraries to enhance services and reach out to new customers. **DVD 004 Wik**
 * //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Wikis, Podcasts, & Blogs, Oh My! //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">( <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Library Video Network, c2008)

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contains twenty writing samples and mini-lessons teachers may use on the whiteboard to teach the elements of writing to students in second through fourth grade, and includes a CD. **371.33 Sch**
 * //<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Writing Lessons for the Interactive White Board : Grades 2-4 //**<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Lola M. Schaefer (Scholastic, c2011).

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Professional Library

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">SMART recently released a new version of Notebook software. This is a full install not an update. The process is VERY easy to complete, simply follow the prompts. I strongly recommend you upgrade (remember you don’t need a SMART Board to use this powerful software). <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">When prompted to choose which components to install:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Click the box next to Response if you use SMART Response clickers (plug in the receiver once the install completes to register this component)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Click the Mixed Reality box if you have a SMART 330 Document Camera

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Upgrade to SMART NB 10.8 here: **http://tinyurl.com/SMART108** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">You will not need to enter a new activation code. The first time you launch the software it will show you the code from your last install, just click to continue. I hope you enjoy the upgrade. Let me know if you have any instructional technology needs.