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Math is its’ very own language and an activboard helps make those connections that no other chalkboard/ whiteboard can make.

Math is a very challenging subject and involves students to take risks. Rather, students are engaged in the active process of building on that they already know and can do” (p. According to Kottler, Zehm, & Kottler (2005), “Students are not viewed as blank tapes to be filled with the knowledge from a lecturing teacher.

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The most effective educators are those who conquered to ability to enter into a student’s mind and bring their mind to life by teaching students how to think. I think it is important that students construct their own learning, because they will gain a deeper understanding of the material. I think my high school math classroom is a leaning environment that encourages students to think outside of the box and embrace diversity. I think the activboard encourages students to participate and decreases levels of stress/anxiety in the classroom. The Promethean board enabled me to differentiate my instruction, because I am a strong believer that each student can and will learn. I consider myself an assessment junky, because I am an on-going assessor of my students’ performances. I think assessment plays an important role in the learning process. I previously have inserted hyperlinks that enabled my students and me to explore more mathematical examples on the World Wide Web. It is also easy to access the internet, which is just a click away. For example, I may have developed a mix and match activity where students have to math the graph with the appropriate equation. For example, when I teach completing the square, I relate this topic with Sponge Bob and my high school students remember the process of completing the square as “sponge Bob.” I also think it is important that students come up to the activboard to interact with the mathematics. I am able to organize and present the complex mathematical content with pictures, because research suggests that students learn more efficiently with pictures, diagrams, and learning webs. The Promethean board enables me to use to use features that a traditional chalkboard doesn’t offer such as highlight, trash bin, graph paper, and saves flipcharts. I spend hours prior each class to make my high school math (Algebra 2/ Trigonometry) classes fun by making them interactive and most importantly meaningful. This is my first year teaching with a Promethean board, and I honestly don’t think I could go back using a traditional chalkboard/ whiteboard. Of course, I would like some of the glitches worked out.

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I worry that come March I will have flipcharts that will not work because the demo will run out and the new version will not be made available as a free upgrade. I do not like that anything I save in Inspire will not work in V3. I have been going back and forth between both V3 and Inspire. I would like to be able to see a picture of the pages just like we can see pictures of the object, groups, and text. When I want to use the action “another page” I have to guess what page I want. I have been frustrated with one particular action. I do like the alphabetical order of the actions. I was eventually able to find what I needed. Several of the actions’ names have changed a little. I have had a hard time finding many of my favorite actions. I am pretty sure that my district will not spend any more money for my classroom when so many other teachers are still using overhead projectors. To use the duel pen function you will need special pens and special filmware to get it to work. Both the students and I like to use the search mode to find just the right picture to go with concept we are trying to share.Īnother problem is the teaser Promethean has put in this version of software. There is also no search for items in the library. This makes finding a picture much more difficult for young students. The library in Inspire is just the files and word labels. My younger students relied on the icons to find the files that they wanted to use. The first change that I noticed that I did not like was that the library no longer has icons showing the different types of images. I have found a few things that I do not like very much. This saves a lot of time when you are creating a flipchart.

I also like how you can now move an object with an action. You click the object again and it reappears. You can click an object with a hide action and it disappears. I also like how the actions turn on and off.

My younger students feel very empowered when they do not need my help to change the look of an object. It is great to be able to put your most used icons on the screen.

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One more plus to the Inspire software is that you can control what tools are available on the objects. Hoping that I had the object in the correct layer.