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I've made it a goal to get more involved with lesson development using SMART Notebook with ETHS teachers that have the interactive whiteboards in their classroom. Several faculty members have taken me up on my offer to help plan, design, and implement Notebook lessons for their curriculum, and I'll be sharing our products here, though you can find all of the links with descriptions on  my website  or on  SMART Exchange . In Similar Polygons , we wanted to reinforce ratios and setting up proportions from word problems. I used the drag/drop capability to encourage students to see where the numbers were coming from when creating a proportion. We then used some of the measuring tools to discuss what makes two figures similar. Finally, we used drag/drop to label geometric figures and coupled with setting up proportions in traditional problems. For the lesson on Substitution , we had students drag values into variables, thus putting a hands-on approach to substitution. W...

Ok, I know I'm late to the game with this Microsoft Exchange stuff, and maybe this is why everyone loves their Crackberrys, but I was amazed when I saw an calendar invitation pop up on my iPhone this morning. I had just reinstated my work Exchange account last week, reclaiming it from GoogleSync and this time I allowed for my work calendar to sync along with my email. When the invitation came through, I was given an option to view my calendar, which I did to make sure I was free, and then I accepted without a worry. My amazement stemmed from the fact that normally, I had to do all of these steps from a desktop computer and with Outlook open no less. With my Exchange account activated, my Google calendars synced with caldav, and my work schedule also integrated, I am that much closer to no longer being tied to a computer, a program such as Outlook, or even an office. Huzzah! Related articles by Zemanta Google Apps Sync for Outlook Gets Mixed Reviews (pcworld.com) Can Y...