Teachers Love SMART Boardstag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-13870302011-09-09T08:37:48-05:00SMART Board Interactive Resources, Notebook Lessons, Web Resources, and Tutorials for teachers who love SMART Boards.TypePadTeachersLoveSmartBoardshttp://feedburner.google.comSMARTBoards and Fun Word Activitiestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e3933b5f198834015435479b63970c2011-09-09T08:37:48-05:002011-09-09T08:37:48-05:00These three interactive word games from the Merriam-Webster website are great supplemental resources for the SMART Board classroom.James Hollis<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;">These three interactive word games from the Merriam-Webster website are great supplemental resources for the SMART Board classroom.<br><br> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://smartboards.typepad.com/.a/6a00e3933b5f198834015435479761970c-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="Alphabot" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e3933b5f198834015435479761970c" height="150" src="http://smartboards.typepad.com/.a/6a00e3933b5f198834015435479761970c-320wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;" title="Alphabot" width="180"></img></a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;">The first game called <strong><span style="background-color: #ffffbf;"><a href="http://www.wordcentral.com/games/alpha-bot.html" target="_blank" title="alphabot">Alpha-bot</a></span></strong> has a unique and very engaging method for spelling words. To play, students touch on the "Audio" button to hear the word. They then have to move rows and columns to spell out the word. The game has three levels</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://smartboards.typepad.com/.a/6a00e3933b5f198834015391745ca5970b-pi" style="float: right;"><img alt="Bigbot" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e3933b5f198834015391745ca5970b" height="152" src="http://smartboards.typepad.com/.a/6a00e3933b5f198834015391745ca5970b-320wi" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" title="Bigbot" width="205"></img></a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;"> and can be zoomed to fill the screen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;">The next game is called <strong><span style="background-color: #ffffbf;"><a href="http://www.wordcentral.com/games/bigbot.html" target="_blank" title="Bigbot">BIGbot</a></span></strong> and it challenges students to find the </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;">antonym or synonym for different words. If they get the correct answer, they can launch the word in<a href="http://smartboards.typepad.com/.a/6a00e3933b5f198834015435479540970c-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="Jumblekids" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e3933b5f198834015435479540970c" height="127" src="http://smartboards.typepad.com/.a/6a00e3933b5f198834015435479540970c-320wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;" title="Jumblekids" width="168"></img></a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;">the BIGbot mouth. It doesn't really do anything more than that but it's fun for the kids.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;">The last game is <span style="background-color: #ffffbf;"><strong><a href="http://www.uclick.com/client/mwb/tmjkf/" target="_blank" title="Jumble For Kids">Jumble for Kids</a></strong></span>. The game works great on the SMART Board and can be used as a fun lesson starter. The game has 10-12 Jumbles to choose from and it appears they have a new Jumble each week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;">Please share these fun games with your fellow teachers and let parents know about them as well.</span></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 14pt;">Sharing Is Caring!</span></strong></em></p>
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