Professional Development
Today I went to an all day training session for Smartboards in Milwaukee. It was very informative and we all had a chance to play on the Smartboards. The training room had four different boards set up so there wasn’t ever very long to wait. I even had some time during lunch to just mess around on my own. I spent that time looking up this very blog on a big screen and seeing how the pictures from last Saturday look on a big screen. Adverb and I also spent some time with map programs messing around and looking for our houses. Sparta was the other Cohort member who came up with us for the class.
Stroke of luck with the class was that we were actually given certificates for attending. That means the three of us can use these in our favor when looking for work next fall. It also helps us look all pro-active when it comes to professional development. I got some links and stuff for using Smartboards, but I need to get an email back from the teacher to clarify the handout.
Here’s a couple that seem to have been written correctly:
i-Maths are online, interactive, multimedia and math investigations.
Available at: http://illuminations.nctm.org/students.html
Electronic Abacus Applet explores the use of abacus model for representing numbers and performing addition.
