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The 1 Day SMART Board Conference is now open to anyone with any experience! The location has also been moved to the HYATT PLACE in CHESAPEAKE/GREENBRIER 709 Eden Way North, Chesapeake, Virginia 23320 Join us for a 1 day SMART Notebook Conference of collaboration in leveled groups where you will design SMART Notebook lessons correlated to Virginia SOLs. Sign up ASAP at [ http://sites.google.com/site/c4cohort/ ]http://sites.google.com/site/c4cohort/ The cost for the day is $20 which incl… Continue

NECC 2009 had over 18,000 people attending, hundreds of sessions, ideas, resources and information shared. Please share any insights, ideas, resources, websites or reflections on what you learned from NECC. I think what I loved best was networking and meeting new people from all over the USA and Canada. I also spent a lot of time around the SMART Booth and ITRT Pavilion. SMART Technologies now has SMART Notebook Math and the latest SMARTBoard allows 2 people to write on the board at the same ti… Continue

This is going to be an incredible SMARTBoard conference you don't want to miss! We have over 30 outstanding presenters. Two presenters are even traveling all the way from Illinois: James Hollis, author of Teachers Love SMARTBoards blog (http://smartboards.typepad.com/) and Matt Granger, creator of this SMARTBoard Revolution Ning (http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/). In addition, everyone who atte… Continue

Want to know when any website is updated? Would you like to be informed of new technology, websites, tutorials or software you can use? Are you part of VSTE's Ning, Facebook or another social network? Here is an easy way to know when your favorite website or blog is updated. Through using RSS, one can get a short summary of when any web page is updated. A reader is needed in order to access RSS. I am going to go through the steps of setting up and using Igoogle reader. Check out the excellent vi… Continue

Thanks to everyone for sharing their Kidspiration files on the ITRT Listserv. By sharing, we have now over 900 Kidspiration (Inspiration will open Kidspiration) templates and over 150 Library pictures geared for K-5 teachers to meet just about every SOL. Each of the files is labeled with k,1,2,3,4 or 5 before the name so it is easy to find the files for each grade level especially if you copy them to the Kidspiration folder. Some topics cover multiple grades so typically I put the file in the gr… Continue

Check out http://elementarytechteachers.ning.com/ This is a great resource of elementary teachers that share questions, resources, files, websites, ask questions from around the world. Join in this invaluable network. Continue

We all have great resources, tutorials, and innovative ideas to share with each other. We have several ways we can communicate and help each other. 1. I hope all the Instructional Technology Resource Teachers are on the ITRT Listserv. If not email me. Last year many ideas and resources were shared including job description of an ITRT, internet safety websites, Kidspiration Templates, Smartboard Notebook, and Promethean Flipcharts were shared over this Listserv. 2. We have this wonderful ning t… Continue

Mid-Atlantic SMART Board™ Users Conference Creating a community of SMART educators SMART Board interactive whiteboard users – you are invited to participate in our first Mid-Atlantic SMART Board Users Conference. At this free, full-day conference, you’ll attend a variety of concurrent, hands-on breakout sessions led by experienced SMART Board interactive whiteboard users. You’ll also have the opportunity to network and share lesson ideas with other educators. See for more information at http:/… Continue