Orient Board Hold down the keyboard and mouse button on the smart board. Left-click the Smart icon from the task pane ( ) and choose Orient. Check for updates Click Smart icon from the task pane or go to the Help/Support tab of the Welcome center. The Floating Toolbar Click settings cog ( )to drop and drag tools you want to use. After selecting a tool, if a cog appears beside it, then there are additional choices available. Use Hide/Reveal to close. Use lower portion to move it When you write on the screen, the ink layer will appear. The tools in the upper-right corner allow you to: Clear, Make a picture (which goes into a Smart notebook file) or Close. Smart Notebook When Notebook software opens, the Welcome center appears. Check out the tutorials under the Teacher s Hub tab. If you do not want this to appear everytime, uncheck the box in the lower left corner. 1 SC Tech Team 6.11
Notebook Tools These tools are found in the default SMART notebook toolbar. For more tools, right-click anywhere on the toolbar. These tools may be added by simply dragging them on to the toolbar. 2 SC Tech Team 6.11
Tabs in the Smart Notebook The Page Sorter allows you to view, re-arrange, clone, rename, and group pages The Gallery contains clip art, backgrounds, multimedia content, notebook files and pages that you can use in your lessons. More details shown below. The Attachments File allows you to to attach a copy of a file, shortcut to a file or link to a Web page to your file. The Properties tab enables you to change the formatting of objects on a page My Content is where you can save gallery items that you use frequently on a specific computer. Gallery Essentials is a collection of thousands of images, multimedia content, and more, organized into subject specific categories Lesson Activity Toolkit is a collection of customizable tools and templates, including activities, games and graphics, that you can use to create professional-looking, interactive and engaging lessons. Gallery Sampler is a selected group from the Gallery Essentials. Pictures and Backgrounds: clip art items appear as thumbnails of the graphic and backgrounds appear as pages with a folded bottom-right corner. Interactive and Multimedia: a video object appears as a frame from a movie, a sound object appears with a speaker icon in the lower left corner, and a Flash file appears as a Flash icon or thumbnail of the content with a small Flash icon in the upper left corner. Notebook Files and Pages: files appear as binders and pages appear with a folded top right corner. You can search for a Gallery item using the keyword search. Hide the Gallery Check the Auto hide button ( hide itself. )at the bottom of the open gallery. Click on the whiteboard area and it will 3 SC Tech Team 6.11
Dealing with Objects The easiest way to find a specific object is by using the search feature. Objects can be resized using the clear circle in the lower right corner which appears when the object is selected. Objects can be rotated using the green circle which appears when the object is selected. Objects can be flipped, cloned, or deleted using the dropdown arrow in the upper right corner which appears when the object is selected. Create Interactive Activities There are many interactive activities that are already made within the SMART Lesson Activity Toolkit. A good place to start is to look at the Example Activities. Open the Notebook Files and Activities and drag the one you like to the workspace. 4 SC Tech Team 6.11
This activity is called a Vortex. By clicking the located in the upper right corner, you will find directions on editing the activity. You will choose the button to make changes. Sometimes it is easier to begin with a blank activity rather than edit an existing one. These are found in the Activities folder To save your edited activity, use one of the following ways: 1. Choose File > Save As. This will save all of the pages as a notebook file 2. Clicking the ( ) above the Gallery > Add Current Page to My Content 3. View the page from the Page Sorter view and use the dropdown menu to select Add Page to Gallery There are many lessons and activities that have already been created by teachers around the world. Many are posted on the Internet. When you find one that you wish to use, download it to your computer and then open it using the Smart Notebook software. You may place it in My Content in the same way as described above. I have created a Smartboard resources folder on Sharepoint. Please share your activities. Place them in the proper curricular area and name them as follows: grade.topic (example: 3.adjectives) There are many sites where you can find Smart lessons. I have added several links on my blog: http://podcasts.shelbyed.k12.al.us/lcash/ Use Ink Aware tools with Word, PowerPoint or Excel 5 SC Tech Team 6.11