Whiteboard

I was walking by a fellow teacher's classroom and I saw her using her SmartBoard as a whiteboard. She was teaching the students the different ways they can read or use the plus sign. She then went on to a new page and did the same thing for the minus sign. Then she continued to read to the students different math problems that included the words and the students had to tell her what the problem was asking them to do (add or subtract). She would switch back and forth to both pages.

The students love to come up to write on the Smartboard and also use it as a whiteboard. At the beginning it takes lots of practice until they become comfortable using it as a writing device. If they make a mistake while writing, they can easily pick up the eraser and erase.

An advantage of using the Smartboard as a whiteboard is that you can save the pages you create and open them up on a later date for review. Imagine how much time that saves!