The Smart Board lesson I have selected from Smart Exchange is a 3rd grade French course (besides ED Tech, I am also working on getting my French certification – French is my 1st language). Although this is supposed to be a French lesson, I found it interesting that the teacher had made this course interdisciplinary by incorporating Science, Social Studies and Language Arts components. This lesson contains a lot of colorful images which can be very helpful for the students to learn a new language.
Overall, this type of lesson show how the Smart Board technology can touch on all multiple intelligences along with various learning strategies. I truly believe that he interactive whiteboard supports the teaching process of foreign languages in three main ways: it supports interaction and conversation in the classroom; it helps with the presentation of new cultural and linguistic elements; and it promotes the organizational skills of the teacher.
Another think I would like to underline is how easy it is to use; foreign language teachers can prepare a lesson as usual in a Word Document, and import it into the SMART Board in order to be able to benefit from all the interactive features of the whiteboard. The main advantage is that teachers can use the whiteboard to overwrite, underline, highlight or circle the elements that need to be emphasized. Teachers can also bring the Internet into the class without involving the cost of having one online computer for every student in the classroom.
To sum up, the Smart Board interactive whiteboard is a very innovative and powerful support for language acquisition, it provides a bridge that allows using the features of computers without breaking communication.
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