Some Essential Smartboard Links:

Download the Smart Board software here

The Smart Educator's Resource Center:  A great place for all the materials including the online tutorials plus reference materials, plus links to the Lesson Plans, etc.

Direct Link to all the Lesson Plans from the Smart company. The SmartExchange. Be sure to browse the section called File Types for more than just Notebook lessons.

Large Collection of SmartBoard lesson from Scholastic

Center School District Smartboard Templates - lots of templates on this school district site. Thanks for the link, Nichole!

New England Smartboard Users Group Board 

***Teaching with SmartBoard Podcasts  (video plus downloadable lesson plans and actual smart lessons)

SmartBoard Lessons Podcasts

Link to You Tube videos on using the SmartBoard

Sound Resources:

The Free Sound Project - register and have access to thousand of mp3 sounds, fully legal

AudioMicro - free sound clips. Right click and save files for use with Notebook objects.

Simply the Best Sounds - choose native mp3 files to play the sounds directly from Notebook.

Audacity - free sound recorder you can use to create your own sounds for Notebook.