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7.1 Apply technology to the delivery of standards-based instruction. 7.2 Use technology to increase student achievement. 7.3 Utilize technology to manage and communicate information. 7.5 Instruct students in basic technology skills. 3. I would like to start out by saying that this assignment was not easy. I read and re-read all of instructions multiple times. The first major issue that I ran into was that after I had made the slides and wanted to link everything together, I couldn’t. The program would continue to close down after trying to use the tools. After 2 days of failure I deleted the program and downloaded it again. This time using the same tools and procedures worked. At this point I had spent a bunch of hours using text boxes, colors, and other options and now that I had figured out how to link the proper pictures, video, and more together my second attempt was much more successful. 4. I think that it would be great to use smart notebook in the classroom for group work. I think that in groups students could work together with these interactive program to learn a new subject. I think maybe a more useful technique could also be to create a more of assessment using smart notebook instead of teaching a lesson with it. Students could click on links as if they were taking a quiz or test on a touch screen. 5. I feel reasonably comfortable with smart notebook. I can make new pages, add color/pictures/images/video, text, objects, and link anything on the page to anything on the web or back to another section of the project. There are lots of options in the program but when you have full access to the web at the same time your options become great in all that you can do. Students really can be hands on teaching themselves lessons or taking assessments. If I had a smart board in my room I think that it would be something that I would use a lot.
 * 1)  The lesson on Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement is designed for high school students. It is one class period long and explores different people or groups that had significant effects in making change. This is more of a discussion and lesson than any type of assessment. It is interactive Smart Notebook lesson where every picture and object or button is a link to somewhere. This is to promote higher level thinking as well as discussion. Enjoy.
 * 2)  Colorado Performance Based Standards (CPBS)