Educators can find 100 SMART-created lesson activities via global open-source learning community
CALGARY, Alberta --- January 24, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the addition of 100 SMART-created lesson activities to Curriki: The Global Education & Learning Community, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing free education materials. These interactive lesson activities for Notebook™ collaborative learning software are designed for K–12 teachers. The activities include embedded Adobe®, Flash®, multimedia files as well as colorful and descriptive graphics. Each one is designed to encourage interactivity in the classroom. Curriki’s use of open-source content allows users to comment, edit and group together curricular materials to create a lesson. Teachers can adapt or revise lesson plans to suit their students’ needs.
The lesson activities from SMART are cross-curricular and cover subjects such as biology, chemistry, English, geography, history, language arts, math, science and social studies. All lesson activities are developed with, or correlated to, state curriculum standards in the United States and provincial curriculum standards in Canada. Curriki has also joined the SMART Software Accreditation Program at the Ready level, the basic accreditation level for a software or content offering. The lesson activities on the Curriki website include interactive title bars about each lesson, title pages and lesson notes for teachers. The activities are versatile – they can be used within the original lesson plan or moved to Notebook software’s Gallery or to another lesson activity.
“We are excited to have SMART join our growing group of publishers who are sharing their high-quality content with our global open-source community,” says Dr. Barbara Kurshan, Curriki’s executive director. “By adding this collection of 100 lesson activities for Notebook software, we are continuing to build the first and only Internet site with a complete course of open-source instruction and assessment for K–12.”
“SMART-created lesson activities provide educators with easy-to-use, highly interactive instructional resources,” says Nancy Knowlton, SMART’s CEO. “SMART and Curriki have together made these world-class digital resources more accessible, so any educator anywhere can benefit from them.”
About Notebook software lesson activities
Created by educators for educators, SMART’s lesson activities are 5 to 15 minutes in length and are correlated to local curriculum standards. The latest collection uses the creative power of Notebook collaborative learning software to enhance lessons with Adobe Flash activities, multimedia files and graphics. Teachers can find lesson activities to help them teach a wide variety of subjects, including language arts, math, science and social studies. The lesson activities run in Notebook software and can also be viewed in Notebook interactive viewer for free.
About Curriki: The Global Education & Learning Community – www.curriki.org/
Curriki: The Global Education & Learning Community is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving education by empowering teachers, students and parents with universal access to free and open-source curricula. Curriki is building the first and only Internet site that offers a complete course of open-source instruction and assessment for K–12. The organization is creating a world-class educational environment that is community developed and supported. Founded by Sun Microsystems in 2004, Curriki now operates as an independent nonprofit.
