{"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\u2019m lucky enough to have a Smartboard \u2013 or \u2018tableau magique\u2019 as it\u2019s called in French \u2013 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\u2019ve 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 \u2018le tableau stupide\u2019 and I\u2019ve limited its use to displaying PDFs, playing movies, and showing Youtube clips.<\/p>\n

Enter the ELMO. It\u2019s essentially a downward-facing video camera that records what you\u2019re doing with a prop, model or worksheet in real-time. Here\u2019s 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 \u2018on TV\u2019. Similarly, they can have their work displayed and I can zoom in on certain details I\u2019d 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\u2019t ticklish.<\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m lucky enough to have a Smartboard \u2013 or \u2018tableau magique\u2019 as it\u2019s called in French \u2013 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}]}}