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2004-2005 School Year!

 

The SMART BUGS!

This page is dedicated to SMART Board enthusiasts and the SMART Board User Group of Stark County, the SMART BUGS!

This page was last modified on: 09/23/2007

Please return to this page to find the updates notes and examples shown at the monthly SMART BUGS meetings.

Bret J. Gensburg: Instructor gensburg@acs.sparcc.org
JoMarie Kutscher: Facilitator kutscher@esc.sparcc.org

A Big Thanks!

I would like to extend a big thanks to JoMarie and Denise.  Their efforts in registering everyone for the meetings, getting the food, copying the agendas, etc. really made each month run extremely smoothly.  From me and all the BUGS, we thank you both so much. 

Making the switch to 9.0?   I recommend that you first back-up any custom "Galleries" First.  If by some reason your custom "Galleries" do not carryover to the upgrade, simply double click the back-up file and it will be placed automatically into the new "My Content" section of SMART Notebook. 

Meetings...

November 9, 2004: 

R. G. Drage Center:  Host Teacher, Jeff Joseph
SMART BUGS/01-SMART BUGS November 9, 2004.pdf

December 7, 2004:

Alliance High School: Host Teacher, Cindi Vickers

New Bees...

Tool Bar Icons Worksheet.pdf

Advance Users...

SMART BUGS - Advance - December 2004 - Floating Tools.pdf

Combined Lesson...

Microsoft FrontPage and Website Design. 

January 18, 2005:  Jackson Middle School: Host Teacher,  Debbie Miller

New Bees...

At this meeting the New Bees took a map of the USA, inserted the individual State, changed its color, and added its name.  See below of the Gallery used in our gallery section. 

Advance Users...

At this meeting, we discussed in detail uses of the SMART Board and the SMART aware software, PowerPoint.  Toolbar, options, Print Capture and more were discussed. 

Combined Lesson...

Here, we talked about how to an image editor and create a transparent background on the images we currently have. 

February 10, 2005:  Northwest: Host Teacher,  Brian Ries / Laurie Traganza

9.0,      9.0,      9.0

Come and check it out!

04-SMART BUGS Feb 10 2005.pdf

Smart Notebook Icons 9.0.pdf

Remember always make a back-up of your Galleries before upgrading. 

March 15, 2005:  Location is Changed: R. G. Drage Center:  Host Teacher, Jeff Joseph.

New Bees...

At this meeting the New Bees explored the new features of SMART Notebook.  They took turns working at the SMART Board.  They used the different shape features hat SMART Notebook offers.   

Advance Users...

At this meeting we discussed in detail how to create and save a Gallery.  it was shown how to use the different shape features of SMART Notebook to create different games and activities tat we can play in math.  Advanced questions were answered.

Combined Lesson...

Here, we talked about different games in math.  Yahtzee was discussed and I showed my new game Geometry Yahtzee.  The game board for this is coming soon.  24 Game was discussed as a continue of the Advanced session.  Ideas were expressed on working from home and school at the same time with different operating systems and different versions of SMART Notebook. 

April 21, 2005:  See Above Announcement for Details! Alliance: Host Teacher,  Dick Morris

Combined Lesson...

Here, we talked about different features of Attaching files in the "Attachment Folder", Printing Other programs to SMART Notebook, and adding pages to Galleries. 

The SMART BUGS had their last meeting April 21, 2005.  Do not worry, more galleries, floor plans, websites, etc will continue to be updated. 

We will be coming back in September of 2005.  Stay tuned for details. 

Meanwhile, you may be wanting to continue to hone your skills on the SMART Board.  This Summer, there will be two workshops sponsored by the Math Science Partnership Grant (MSP) in conjunction with the Stark County Educational Survive Center. 
Workshop 1: SMART Boards - New Users: August 1, 2005 - August 2, 2005: 8:30-3:30: at Alliance High School.
Workshop 2: SMART Boards - Advanced Users: August 3, 2005 - August 4, 2005: 8:30-3:30: at Alliance High School.

Learners should feel free to attend both sessions. 
Advanced User session, learners should come with as many lesson that they have done on the SMART Board as possible.  We will be sharing these lessons Flash Drive to Flash Drive. 
If you have questions as to what will be happening these two days, which session (s) should you attend, or anything else please feel free to email Bret Gensburg at: gensburg@acs.sparcc.org

Galleries...    

Click here to access the available galleries on the SMART BUGS 2005-2006 School Year Page.

Floor Plans...

Click here to access the available floor plans on the SMART BUGS 2005-2006 School Year Page.

Teacher Websites...

Click here to access the available teacher websites on the SMART BUGS 2005-2006 School Year Page.

Other Resources...

Click here to access the other resources available on the SMART BUGS 2005-2006 School Year Page.

Our last SMART BUGS meeting was Thursday April 6, 2006 for the 2005-2006 School Year.  But fear not, they will be back next year!  Until then, three summer sessions have been planned for your SMART Boarding Experience. 

SMART Board Training: New Users (max. 24-28) 

July 24-25, 2006: 8:00-3:00
July 26-27, 2006: 8:00-3:00
(Repeat Session of July 24-25)

SMART Board Lesson Sharing and Development (max. 24-30)

July 28;31, 2006: 8:00-3:00
(This is a two day workshop divided over the weekend)