Case Study: Molino Park Elementary

Implementation

Molino Park Elementary began using the Activboard at the beginning of the 2003-04 school year. The district purchased 26 Activboards along with six sets of the Activotes, hand-held, wireless response keypads designed to solicit student interactivity and measure learning comprehension.

Today, there is one mobile Activboard in every classroom. Additionally, you will find an Activboard in art and music and in the library, plus Woodward adds, “one to grow on.”

According to Woodward, the staff says the Activboard system wholly integrates with the existing technology of laptop computers, DVDs, VCRs, projectors, digital cameras and document scanners currently found in each classroom.

“The students are totally captivated,” said Sharon Smith, a fourth grade teacher at Molino Park . “I’ve been a teacher for 31 years and I have never felt this connected to my students. They are more interested in learning and eager to participate. The Activboard system has opened the floodgates for teachers and students to actively engage their creative minds.”

Teachers like Smith find that the many backgrounds and image libraries in the Activstudio software help to extend their current lessons. In math, Smith regularly incorporates the graph paper for plotting x and y-axes; the 100s chart for addition and subtraction; and she often creates her own flipcharts with pictures for word problems.