Smart Board for Spanish

The piece of technology I would like to integrate into my classroom is a Smart Board interactive whiteboard. The technology allows the teacher to interact with their computer from touching the screen projected on to the board at the head of the classroom. They can type, draw, move, click, and write onto the screen and it is transferred to their computer. For a language classroom, I think this would facilitate student involvement in writing and reading. For daily work, students could have a sentence to copy off of the board that would need to be fixed. Volunteers could come to the board and fix what needed to be corrected, and then the sentence could be saved into an archive for future testing purposes. I think a Smart Board would be beneficial for culture lessons, too. Having pictures and videos on the board to interact with would most likely help retention of information. Having 20% more working space than a standard board, the Smart Board would also be beneficial with larger class sizes, and would attract attention of the majority of the class. The Smart Board can also be used with new, and more evolved technology. It’s possible to transition smoothly from using a word document to playing a segment from a VHS tape player. It is also convenient to use sound with the Smart Board. Interactively using Second Life with a class, or using Google Earth and exploring Machu Picchu with some música andina playing could be a great cultural experience.