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**SMART Board**
The SMART Board is essentially an interactive PowerPoint program with a touch-sensitive board to boot. With the advent of this amazing technology, the level of student and teacher interaction has been able to increase drastically. No longer must students sit passively and listen; now, they can play games, answer questions, and write on a board that can be wiped clean with a click of a button.Our SMART Board presentation covered three important and essential literary terms and includes a short quiz as well as an interactive crossword.

I love the idea of SMART Board, but I feel that the technology itself has a ways to go. It's fantastic to be able to have an interactive white board, but it's frustrating to need to put down a marker before I can erase; I feel that it will soon change and, while it's good practice now since I will use it in my near-future classroom, will become obsolete a bit faster than we'd expect.

I will integrate SMART Board into my classroom whenever I need additional lecture notes; especially when it comes to things like two-column notes and other test-taking strategies, I can have my "think-alouds" pre-thought out and pre-planned out--this will make my lessons run very smoothly. Additionally, I will use SMART board in order to do vocabulary review and other test review, since it contains a variety of fun, interactive games for my future students.

Without further adieu, here is my group's Smart Board presentation on Literary Terms: