It’s summer vacation, my son is enjoying an hour on his PlayStation, and I’m enjoying the time to just browse the internet, catch up on the starred posts in my google reader, read some books (some fiction, some teacher-ish!) and generally relax.  It’s been a while since I last posted …… I thought I might be having writer’s block again, but the more I think about, the more I’m convinced that I really haven’t had anything worthwhile to say for a while.

I do have a few posts brewing, one on Writer’s Workshop (my own personal area for development and improvement for the 2009/10), a reflection post on the whirlwind year moving from New Zealand to Bangkok, Thailand, and a few other little projects gently simmering in the background!

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March is SMARCH at school – Using your SMARTBoard smarter! Here’s my top share for this week.

My twitter friend Tom Barrett has this fabulous site called Ideas to Inspire.  It’s jam-packed with googledoc presentations he’s become quite famous for organising.  Using a tweet he calls for ideas from educators all around the world to suggest ideas, tips and tricks for any number of topics.  Together, everyone collaborates on a googledoc presentation with title changing with each additional idea.  See if you can guess my contribution for the Pocket Video Cameras.

For SMARCH check out #38 Interesting Ways to Use Your Interactive Whiteboard *and tips. I say #38 because when you look at it, that number quite possibly will have increased!  These documents grow ……. literally!

But of course, don’t stop there!

Check out all the other amazing topics!

Are you a smartboard user or any other IWB user for that matter? Looking for a challenge?  Do you feel like you’re getting the most out of your Interactive Whiteboard?   Want to breathe some pizzaz into using an IWB with students in the classroom?  Or do you just want to use your IWB better? Smarter?

Then look no further!

The amazing Jess McCulloch has created the Whiteboard Challenge. She’s also got a stunning line up of Task Masters, (Check out who),  just waiting to bring us our next challenges.

It’s only just started with Challenge #1 – making mp3 recordings and adding them to the gallery.

Not only has Jess created a wikispace, there’s a diigo group, and she’s even provided participants with astep-by-step video on how to complete Challenge #1

I’ve been an Interwrite IWB user for several years now (I miss my Interwrite Board back in NZ). Now I am finding my way around the smartboard and notebook application. This challenge is perfect way to get me up to speed!

Way to go Jess! Fabulous challenge, fabulous resource that will definitely help a lot of IWB users out there!

So what are you waiting for? Let’s begin!