SmartBoard and Notebook Part 2 The SmartBoard is an Interactive Whiteboard that allows you to touch the board and interact with the computer using your finger as the mouse. 4/2009
Floating Tools Control any program on the computer Select Pen Highlighter Eraser Line Shapes Right Click Onscreen Keyboard Notebook Software Undo Customize Tools *Click on the pointer (select tool) to use your finger as an interactive mouse or *Use the Floating Tools & the SMARTboard tools and eraser to annotate over the top of the desktop or open applications Write on anything you have open--creates an overlay When you activate a pen tool, your computer goes into an Ink Layer which will allow you to draw over the top of what is showing on the desktop. Red X closes the layer When you are finished with your drawing you can either Close the Ink Layer by clicking on the Red X in the Top Right Corner or you can Capture the Ink Layer (Desktop and Drawing Overlay) by clicking on the Camera Icon in the Top Right Corner and a snapshot will appear in the Notebook Software as a new Page.
Notebook Software ToolBar White Space for Working Pop-up Tool Settings SideBar Page Sorter Gallery Files Tool Properties All the tools are above in the toolbar and the resources and tool properties are in the sidebar. Toolbar Whenever you need to see what type a tool is, hold your mouse over it and a window will appear. Open and Save Paste Screen Displays Screen Shade, Full Screen, Dual Display, Screen Capture, Doc. Cam Insert Table Pen and Eraser Tools Pen, Magic Pen, Creative Pen, Eraser Text Tool Page Navigation and Add Page Undo, Redo and Delete Select Tool Shapes and Lines Lines, Shape, Shape Recognition, Fill Tool Properties/ Settings
Sidebars Window Slider for Window Size Move Sidebar to Left Side Navigate and Add Pages Delete Selected Object Page Sorter Organize Pages in a Notebook Presentation View Goto Reorder Delete They can also be categorized into Groups Gallery Collections of Resources to add to your pages. Drag and Drop from the Gallery into your page Personal Content Collection Themes Essentials for Educators - Images, Backgrounds, Flash Interactive Tools and Precreated pages categorized by subject Files Files can be saved here for easy access. They can also be dragged from folders on your Hard Drive Double Click to Open them in a new Notebook Window Use the Buttons at the bottom to insert Hyperlinks for easy Clicking or insert files instead of dragging Properties Tool Properties and Settings for the currently selected tool Settings can be saved for that tool. Some tools have several buttons at the top for different settings for the tools
Using the white space *Take notes *Work out problems *Create Presentations *Use images to show/ demonstrate/model Full Screen WhiteSpace When you want your white space to be bigger so students can see better, you can use the Full Screen Option. Click the Full Screen Button and the White Space will Expand leaving you a Small ToolBar with Navigation and other Tool Options plus a button back to the Normal View Working with text Adding Text ***Click the Text Tool to activate the text. Click anywhere in the whitespace and type your text. The Font Settings will be right above the text for you to change Font, Size, Style, etc. ***You can move text around the board when the Select Tool is active. When you need the settings to reappear, Double Click the Text Box. Text Boxes are just like any object; they have the rotate, resize and menu buttons. The Onscreen Keyboard can also be activated from the Floating Tools.
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Working with objects There are several things you can do with objects. When you select an object you have handles for rotating, resizing and menus. The menus offer many options like duplicating and cloning, locking, grouping, flipping and so on. This give you power and efficiency in creating pages. Rotate Press and Hold Command Key to select more that one object Menu Making links *Command Key is the Apple Key on older computers Resize You can change the wording of the link but still preserve the link to the URL Creating Links You can add links on your page that link to a website or you can make objects link to websites or other pages. To access the Link Editor select Link from the Insert Menu or from the Object Menu. Enter the URL of the website.
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Gallery Resources *Essentials for Educators *interactive resources *backgrounds *pictures *audio Lesson Activity Toolkit
SMART Resources Help Center The Help Center can be very useful whenever you have questions. Select Notebook Software Help from the Help Menu. There are several categories on the left side that you can look through. There is a list of the tools and descriptions for each in the Notebook Software Help. Select Smart Tools on the Left Hand Side then Select Smart Tools Again. Select Floating Tools in the list that appears in the window There are also several other Tool Tips in the same Smart Tools Area Smart s Educator Resources - http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/ed +Resource/ Full of great resources for teachers. Lesson Activities - Enhance your lessons with hundreds of interactive lesson activities correlated to curriculum standards. Lesson Resources - Access images, Adobe Flash content and other resources for your SMART Notebook software lessons. * Notebook lesson activities * Senteo question sets * SMART Ideas software activities * Teacher-created Lesson Activities Online Classroom Resources - A list of websites to find free, curriculum-related resources for your classroom. Smart Training Center - http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/tutorials.asp# Videos to show you how to do tasks in Smart s Software
Resources More Cool Sites - http://www.eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/ http://exchange.smarttech.com/ (you have to create a user login) http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/sb/sb.html http://community.teqsmart.org/download.php (you have to create a user login) Download some great notebook templates *who wants to be a millionaire *calendar time (everything you could think of) *graphic organizers They also have a bunch of links to use with an interactive board http://community.teqsmart.org/e107_plugins/links_page/links.php Smartboard Notebook files to download and use http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/ed+resource/lesson+activities/notebook+activities/ http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm http://teach.fcps.net/trt27/smart_board_lessons.htm http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/xwiki/view/coll_smarttech/smartcreatedlessonactivities?bc= http://almarolh.googlepages.com/harvey%27shomepage http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/ngfl/iwb/resources.html Gallery collections (more images, etc) http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/xwiki/view/coll_smarttech/smartcreatedlessonactivities?bc= After you download these they install in the folder called my content Interactive websites http://www.davidson.k12.nc.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=43535 http://www.ettcnsc.org/instructional_resources/other/interactive_whiteboard_links.htm http://www.teacherled.com/category/generalmaths/ http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm