Smartboard

I feel as though through the interactive smartboard activities students are more engaged than just sitting and looking at a chalk board or listening to the teacher lecture. Its a way to get the students out of their seats and actually work with the lesson at hand. At first the technology was difficult to get used to. There is so much that you have to remember while putting the lesson together that can get somewhat frustrating. But as I began to work with the software more and more, I began to get a  better grasp on the small things that needed to be done to be sure the way in which I wanted to execute my lesson worked effectively. At times I could see through the use of the smartboard to cause children to get somewhat out of control and overly excited with the use of the smartboard. Also techological difficulties occur all the time, even when you are well educated and used to using the specific type of technology that your entire lesson could be thrown off. When incorporating any type of technology in a lesson, a back up plan is always necessary which can cause teachers to want to advert from the use of technology because it can in the end cause much more work than necessary. I think smartboard can be incorporated into so many different types of lessons its hard to be specific as to which lesson I would use it for. I wish that I learned to work with the smartboard software before many of my education classes because I think I could have used it effectively in all of them in some way.