Day 5 SMARTBoards

Today we were introduced to SMART Boards and how to use them. We worked in groups of four. My group was Marc, Greg, Danielle and I. I really enjoy this class, in the beginning I don’t know if I felt a little intimidated or just in awe by it. Ideas of how could I use it to teach Spanish were swarming like busy bees trough my mind, but again, time was an issue. It seemed like every time that I was feeling like I was getting a hold of it, it was time to wrap it up and be done. I downloaded the software and had fun playing with it. When it came the time for me to create an activity, took me forever, it seemed that when I was in the classroom everything was quite easy, but at home was a whole other story. I got really interested in this specific technology and read as much as I could find about it. It was interesting to notice how for some teachers this is a tool like the key to the heaven’s doors, and for some others was the opposite. Some teachers think that the fact that the board can easily need to be re-oriented, could be a waste of class time. Teaching in a Walforf school my chances of experiment with this tool are remote, even though, its use to teach a foreign language, in my case Spanish, could be an incredible enhancement to the lesson, plus a great tool for language acquisition.