{"id":7,"date":"2013-11-23T18:08:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/?p=7"},"modified":"2013-11-26T21:25:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T21:25:47","slug":"elmo-1-smartboard-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/2013\/11\/23\/elmo-1-smartboard-0\/","title":{"rendered":"ELMO – 1 Smartboard – 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m lucky enough to have a Smartboard – or ‘tableau magique’ as it’s called in French – in my primary French classroom. Unfortunately, it frequently acts up during key moments in lessons. Maybe it was dropped on its head as a baby smartboard or \u00a0too many boys have been poking it and wiping boogers on it, but I sincerely wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve touched one spot of the board and it registers on another spot halfway across the board. The boys and I have taken to calling it ‘le tableau stupide’ and I’ve limited its use to displaying PDFs, playing movies, and showing Youtube clips.<\/p>\n

Enter the ELMO. It’s essentially a downward-facing video camera that records what you’re doing with a prop, model or worksheet in real-time. Here’s a link to an explanatory webpage:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.elmoglobal.com\/en\/html\/tour\/01.aspx<\/p>\n

I used it to take up a worksheet that involved matching French words to their translations and the boys had no trouble following along. However, I can see it having many more practical applications. Instead of creating all sorts of slides on Notebook and worrying about the board malfunctioning, I can cut out cards for matching activities and get boys to manipulate them with the added excitement of their hands being ‘on TV’. Similarly, they can have their work displayed and I can zoom in on certain details I’d like the whole class to see. I hear it can even be linked to a computer so that images can be saved. It seems the sky is the limit with this little gem, though unlike the Sesame Street character, it isn’t ticklish.<\/p>\n

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Meet ELMO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I’m lucky enough to have a Smartboard – or ‘tableau magique’ as it’s called in French – in my primary French classroom. Unfortunately, it frequently acts up during key moments in lessons. Maybe it was dropped on its head as a baby smartboard or \u00a0too many boys have been poking it and wiping boogers on … Continue reading “ELMO – 1 Smartboard – 0”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4,7,6],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-french-class","tag-boys-learning","tag-edtech","tag-elmo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}