First day

After a nice and interesting evening we started at 9 with the program. The delegates from Denmark, Russia, Finland and Hungary arrived also. In total we have teachers from 11 countries all over Europe. The 'ice-breaker' was again used as a nice, interactive way of introducing the participants. Terry told us a little bit about the SMART Solutions and the ways SMART is helping teachers to use their boards in their classroom. After that Joe showed us some new features of Notebook 10 and demonstrated a quick workshop in basic lesson activity design in Notebook 10. We also talked about sharing content and took a look at some websites with SMART Lesson Activities for the participating countries. The rest of the morning program was filled with hands-on practices for Notebook 10. Teachers made lesson activities using the tables, animations and more new features. There are always new ideas to share and beautiful examples of lessons, made for their own students.

A forum like this is always a perfect place to find new 'stuff'. Especially interesting for Dutch math-teachers we got a nice interactive 'geodriehoek'. Thanks to Tobias from SMART Germany. We will place this Galery-item on the smart op school website.

After a great lunch we took a look at the Document Camera and Senteo 2.0. And of course we used the clickers to check if everyone was paying enough attention, especially after lunch.

The second part of the afternoon we had the teachers to present their lesson activities. Joe used a new Tool called 'Random Name Picker' to invite the teacher to come to the board.