I thought the amount of resources online for teaching math and science were very impressive. The playing with time website would be great to show a class and could work in to many different science lessons. It also provides the students an opportunity to observe changes like that of a forest over a year that they perhaps would never see. The smart board also seems like it would be helpful to use in a classroom, but it seems that interacting with the smart board may be kind of difficult for kids in lower grades. The board does not always write exactly where you are depending on your positioning in relation to the projector. This could be frustrating for small children. Also the capability to make your own time lapse videos with a web cam and a movie editor. This also presents some exciting possibilities for the classroom. The videos would be personal to the students and it would also serve a good review/refresher tool.
The smart board has numerous applications for the classroom. When I was doing my 488 lessons last semester we used the smart board to go over worksheets as a class and had the students come up and write their answers on the worksheet that was projected on the smart board.
Another application from last Tuesday was the video capture program that takes photos at specific time intervals this could be useful to document the growth of a plant in the classroom for a science lesson. The students would be able to watch the plant grow as the year progressed. However, after the plant was fully grown the students could watch the video and see the various stages the plant went through in close succession.
One question I have is for the science sites that require a subscription fee; do any schools buy a school wide subscription that they make available to all teachers?
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I know a lot of schools buy subscriptions to services like United Streaming and exploreLearning, and in many cases it's the district that buys the license for every school. Many times, if a school doesn't have a license it's because they don't know about it yet. From what I've heard, schools are very into the idea of streaming educational movies on demand.
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