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Connecting with
Instructional Promethans in Portville P.1
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First Lego League P.2
Tim Cox Common Standards P.2
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716.376.8227 iPods in Scio P.3
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Barb VanWicklin
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Laurie MacVittie Where’s the Chalkboard?
LEARNING RESOURCES
716.376.8239 By Kristen Keenan
lmacvittie@caboces.org

These days when you walk ery and interaction stead of just sitting back
Dr. Michael Doyle into classrooms you may amongst the students. In and observing. According
MST-HEALTH KITS not be able to find a chalk- addition, you can choose to Gene, “teaching is easier
716.376.8285 board. Instead, they have various backgrounds, add because it’s more fun,
mdoyle@caboces.org been replaced by white animations, and choose imaginative, and interac-
boards, or something that from a variety of fonts and tive. Because students are

Cindy Crandall looks like a white board. colors. There are tools for engaged, they’re more in-
STUDENT PROGRAMS Gene Rogers, a fifth-grade voting, sorting, and a zoom volved. You find yourself
ITINERANT SERVICES teacher from Portville, uses feature with the projector not needing to direct stu-
716.376.8242 an interactive board called so students are able to see dents back to task.”
ccrandall@caboces.org a Promethean board when 3-D objects up close.
teaching. What do the students think
www.caboces.org Mr. Rogers was able to about this new type of
www.go2iss.org The Promethean board can show his entire class a chalk board? According to
be used for a wide variety mealworm shedding its one fifth grader at Portville,
of activities including as a skin! He also used it to “the Promethean board is
projection screen, a video create interactive presen- awesome! It is like using a
screen, or as a large com- tations when teaching units pencil to control the com-
puter screen. With the on matter and density. It is puter. You can also show
ActivInspire software, you very versatile and enter- videos, type, draw pictures,
can imbed sounds, images, taining, but more impor- and even teach on it. I
videos, web pages, and tantly, the students are think the Promethean
texts that allow for discov- able to interact with it in- board is number 1!”
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