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  Have you ever used a Wiki?  I have been using a Wiki with our students for several years now.  We use the wiki for bell work and to display some videos and projects our students created.   Click here to start your own wiki.     Click here to see our classroom wiki. Recently I discovered a wiki that describes a whole bunch of tricks for doing some cool things on a wiki.  There are a lot of things explained on this wiki that I never knew were possible.  Click here to check it out. Here are the reasons I like using a wiki: It is easy to embed and add video, audio, and animation to a wiki Wikis are easy to change on a daily basis There are a lot of educational wikis that have great resources for education One of my favorite educational wikis is ITC Magic .   I highly recommend giving wikis a try!

  Last week I was given the opportunity to attend an Advanced Smart Board Training.  Here are a few things I wanted to share with you from that training. #1 Update your Smart Notebook 10 Software.  The newest version of SMART Notebook 10 is 10.8.   This update offers some new tools.  Here is how you update your software.  There are two main ways. From your start bar: Or if you already have SMART Notebook opened: WARNING:   Updating SMART Notebook 10 can take quite a while.  Mine took 30 minutes and I did this at the workshop.  It could take longer at school.   #2 Here are two new added tools that come with the update 10.8.  SMART Exchange Tool   The SMART Exchange Tool is a quick way to connect to SMART Exchange , which is the website that offers SMART Notebook lessons to download for free.  These are lessons (and activities) created by teachers and other professionals for you to download and us...