Smartboard Online Course

I subscribe to a blog called Teachers Love SMART Boards in my Google Reader. (This is a central place where all of my blogs are gathered to allow for easy reading). You can find out more about Google Reader here.

Well, there was a post on the Teachers Love SMART Boards blog about an online course available for free. I decided to participate in the course through a website called Teacher Online Training. This is a place where teachers can participate in online "courses" or tutorials for various Smartboard functions and applications. All you have to do is create an account for free and you're set to go! The course I completed is called: Introduction to Tables in SMART Notebook 10. It was free with an "Enrollment Key" that the facilitator provided. Otherwise, the course would've cost $4.95. I highly recommend completing this online course. It only took me 30-45 minutes.

This course is focused on "introducing the teacher to the table object in Smart Notebook Version 10. Participants will create an animal identification application that can be used inside the classroom. The techniques learned in this course will allow participants to utilize the table object efficiently and effectively in other Notebook applications. Participants will learn how to add and move tables, how to add text objects to table cells, how to add images to table cells, how to insert rows and columns, how to merge and delete cells, how to lock tables, and how to add cell shades to table cells."


I am working on getting an Enrollment Key for another course entitled: Notebook Application: Interactive Review Game. The site says that "This course will guide the participant through the process of creating an interactive vocabulary review game using any list of words." and "Participants will learn how to apply special page backgrounds, use flash-based resources from the Gallery, use a table to simplify tasks, and set default shape properties. In addition, participants will learn how to use and apply the infinite clone feature and apply a basic animation to objects to create stimulating user interaction."

I hope you get a chance to participate in the Introduction to Tables course. For those who aren't comfortable with that yet, there's also a course called Introduction to SMART Boards. If you do participate, please write a comment on this post to share your experiences. :)