Smart Notebook Advanced User Certificate - Session 5

Overview

Demonstrate an ability to produce quality Smart Notebook resources to support the effective teaching and learning for a Literacy lesson, Mathematics lesson and a Science lesson.

Demonstration and modelling.

Recap the sesions delivered and any skills / knowledge of the software required by staff. Discuss the importance of using the techniques to enhance teaching and learning. Consider the need for evaluating the impact any notebook file has had on the teaching and learning planned for the lesson and to use this to inform future notebook devleopment.

Teacher task

Produce a notebook resource in 2 of the following 3 subjects:
Literacy, Mathematics, Science.
Each resource has to contain details of the objectives / learning outcomes for the session. Clear instructions of how to use the various pages of the resource. A short summary of how the resource enhanced the teaching and learning taking place.
You need to show evidence of using the following skills / tools in either or both of the notebooks you produce.

Use images captured from the Internet and interact with them using either  spotlight tool, capture tool, rub and reveal or hiding aspects of the image using other shapes objects. Your notebook file should show evidence of locking objects or layering or grouping objects. You need to embed / link one or both of your files to a flash video or other video clip and then use still images from the video resource as part of your teaching sequence. You need to also use your notebook to demonstrate the ability to link to external resources by hyper linking; either to a relevant file, sound or website.

Finally I would like you to produce a short paragraph on the last page of one of your notebooks entitled Course Summary and give brief details / feedback on the course including information about the sessions as follows:

How do you think the course has impacted on your use of the IWB? Do you think your use of the IWB has impacted on the quality of teaching and learning? What do you think about the quality / delivery of the course and course resources - be as honest as you like I am very thick skinned. What would you change / improve about the course?