Meeting A Teacher.

All throughout your life someone is asking you what do you want to do once you grow up. Well.. Once you grow up and you decide what you want to be and start to go to school for it. Its a totally different story. College is supposed to be the best part of a person's life but after your first years are over and you start to get to the end and you realize that soon your going to be doing your dream job. Hopefully, You will get a chance to walk in someone shoes of your dream for a day or more. Like becoming a teacher, you get to do student teaching. BUT whats even better then that. Getting to sit down and talk to a teacher. Even better a new teacher that has not been working that long. There you will get the Push you need to finish. 

So if you get the chance to talk to a teacher.. or the person that does your "dream job" for a living. Do not pass that up. It just may be that push that you need.

Discovery Education VIdeo Streaming

Discovery Education has a website just for Video Streaming. It has over thousands and thousands of videos on it that Teachers can use for their lessons. One of the good things about its Video Streaming is that you do not have to watch the whole video to make your point, You can show however much of the video you wish to show. You can also save the videos to your account so that you can use them for later lesson plans or whatever you need it for. Plus the way you search for the videos is also really neat because you can pick from a subject and/or grade. Another great way to search is by going to your state, subject and grade level, That way your videos meet your SOL standards.
The One thing that the website has that is really cool was the Interactive Atlas. Which gives you unique video guide to our world. It shows the wonders of countries from all around the world. You can Zoom in to each country and learn about its culture, government, history and the natural world.
This is a great website for just about any teacher out there.

check it out for you self
Video Streaming

Smart Board part Two

Just a reminder about what Smart Board is an interaction white board, Your trigger is your mouse. Whatever you see on the computer is on the board. There are many different products that are a lot like Smart Board but Smart Board is the product that we are talking about.

On the last post, we learned that Smart Board has projects that you can just fill in the blanks and go but once you play around with Smart Board for awhile you realize that there is many different things that you can do by yourself. You just have to learn some things about Smart Board. Like Everything that is on the screen is known as an "Object". You can Move, Clone, Copy or Paste, Flip Objects.. plus many more. There is something called the "Magic Pen" with does a lot of stuff like making a square around font makes the font bigger, Circle force on lights, notes, underline and slowly disappears over time. You can lock objects on the screen so they can not be moved. Re size objects or let objects move as one or in groups. You can also move objects from front to behind. You can Clone pages to make things easier for you. There is a gallery with tons of pictures, sounds, and more that you can play around with for days. One tool that many people seem to like is the "Screen Shot" on the screen shot tool you can use the Internet or just about any other screen you would like to use.

Anyone that uses Smart Board would tell their other teachers that Smart Board is the product to use.