SMART Ideas Half day course on using graphic organizers in the classroom

Application Overview

SMART Ideas™ graphic organizer software brings supports helps students to understand ideas and concepts through visual representations. Users can build single or multilevel graphic organizers using images and shapes. SMART Ideas concept mapping software is available in all publicly funded schools in Ontario.

Prerequisite:

Familiarity with Windows computer

Length:

Half Day

Intended Audience

SMART Ideas is intended for all educators who wants to make effective use of dynamic graphic organizers as a teaching and learning tool.

Course Description

SMART Ideas in the classroom is a half day course that provides attendees with a complete overview graphic organizer software and how it can be used to enhance learning at any grade level, and with any group of students. We start with basics and progress through the more advanced features of SMART Ideas.

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

Launch SMART Ideas
Save and open an existing file
Create simple and dynamic graphic organizers
Develop graphic organizer templates for students
Add images, sound and links to objects
Export a file