Upstate Technology Conference

Our school district is hosting the Upstate Technology Conference June 28 and 29th at Greer High School. The conference will start at 9:00 AM each morning and end at 3:00 PM. Our website is www.greenville.k12.sc.us/utc If you have not registered yet...please do! It's free to any educator in the state. There will be vendors and door prizes! Do you think we need this kind of technology conference? Is this a good time of year for the conference? Let us know what you think!

The Smart Board...Improved Software makes it even better!

You've heard of them I'm sure...but have you actually tried a smart board with their latest software 9.5. It is incredible. "Smart" has added a search engine so that you can find gallery items easier and faster. "Smart" has done an incredible job with providing a site (http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+activities/ ) where teachers can get ideas about how to use their smart board in class and correlate these with state standards. The one drawback to the new software however is that if you are planning on downloading it from the Internet...set aside lots of time...and I mean lots! It took me almost two hours to download it and then install it.

I've heard from some teachers that the Smart Board has motivated their students where other methods had failed. How about you guys? Do you think you could use the Smart Board in your classroom? Please click on "Comments" below to add your own comment to this blog!