Quick Keyboard Short Cuts Instructor: Rachel Miller
Table of Contents Main Tool Bar 4-5 Quick Keyboard Short Cuts Menus 6-7 Brower Bars 8-9 Object Tool Bar 10 Calibrating the Board - Using the Activ Pen 11 Write, Highlight and Erase 12-13 Creating Backgrounds 14-15 Adding Text 16 Adding Shape 17 Adding Images and Objects 18 Tools - Handwriting and Shape Recognition, Revealer, Spotlight 19 Preset the Spotlight or Revealer tools 20 Camera Tool 21-22 Calculator Tool 23 Screen Recorder 24 Clock and Countdown Tool 25 TickerTape - Communication 26 Increase the Size of toolbar - Page Zoom 27 Customize Your Main Tool Bar 28 Changing the Default Tool 29 Use ActivInspire Tools With Other Applications 30
Page Turn Effects You can set a different transition for every page. Individual Page Turn Effect 1. Click on the property browser 2. Click the page tab 3. Click the ellipses box next to Page Turn Effect 4. Choose an effect from the pop up box. 5. Click Done. Interactive Lessons Magic Reveals - Using Color 31 Captions as a Tool Tip Action 32 Using the Color Fill Tool to Color Text 33 Action Button Hide and Reveal 34-35 Magic Hat/ Treasure Chest 36 Magic Revealers - Spy Glass etc. 37 How to Download Video Clips from the Internet 38 Embedding Video 39 Interactive Lessons with Sound 40 Hyperlink a Document, File, Website 41 Pull Tabs and Restrictors 42-43 More Color Hide and Reveal Lessons 44 Action Buttons 45 Set Page Turn Effect for Entire Flipchart 1. Click View (On tool bar at top of your screen.) 2. Click Page Turn Effects 3. Choose your effects 4. Click Done. Interactive Graphs 46-48 Drag and Copy - Unlimited Copies 49 Extract Text 50 Pulling Ideas Out of Your Head - Rotate Tool 51-52 Containers - Informal Assessments and Games 53-56 Switch Between Primary and Studio Look 57
AC TI V IN PS I RE PAGE 4 PAGE 57 Switching between the Primary and Studio If you want you can switch the style of your ActivInspire to a Primary look and feel. 1. Press F11 2. Click on Configure 3. Click the check box Launch next time using the Primary look and feel 4. Now close ActivInspire and Reopen it. Primary Studio
PAGE 56 PAGE 5 AP Containers Multiple Objects - Keywords 10. Click on the box next to Contain Words 11. Type the letter A 12. Optional: You may add a reward sound if you like. 13. Now click on each every Item that will be contained in that container and go to the property browser. 14. Under the tab Identification click in the Key Word box and type the letter A. Now all of those object match that container only because they have the same keyword. 15. Under the Container tab change Return if not Contained to True. Repeat steps 6-15for the other two shapes you wish to use as containers however change the keywords to B and C etc. Main Tool Bar 1) Docking your toolbar: Can be docked on the top, bottom, left, Right or floating Click on the little menu icon to choose. 2) Pinning the Toolbar If you choose to leave it unpinned the toolbar will slide off the screen when it is not in use. Simply click on it to bring it back up and click on the flipchart to make it slide off. If the toolbar is pinned then it will not move on and off the screen. These items are also found on the browser bar. Pin and Unpin
PAGE 6 PAGE 55 Main Menu - File Interactive Lesson - Containers (Multiple Objects) If you want a container to contain more than one item then you are going to want to program each container to contain key words rather than specific objects. This very easy to do. Please take a look at the following example. 1. With your shape tool create the shape you wish to use as a container. (Rectangles work well) 2. Click on the Shape you just created and Click the copy button on your object tool bar twice (pops up when you select any image). 3. You now have three shapes that are the same size. 4. Insert text or images you wish to contain on your flipchart. 6. Now Click the 1st Shape (Rectangle) to select it. 7. Click on the Property Browser. 8. Scroll down to the Container tab 9. Change Can Contain to Keywords
PAGE 54 AC TI V IN PS I RE PAGE 7 Containers Continued View 6. Now Click the 1st Shape (Rectangle) to select it. 7. Click on the Property Browser. 8. Scroll down to the Container tab 9. Change Can Contain to specific object 10. Click on the ellipses box next to Contain Object 11. in the pop up box find the correct image you want to contain in that shape 12. Click OK 13. Optional: You may add a reward sound if you like. 13. Repeat steps 6-12 for the other two shapes you wish to use as containers 14. Now click one of the images or objects to be contained. 15. In the Property Browser under the Container Tab change Return if not contained to True. Now test it out to see if your container actually work.
MIC R O SO FT PAGE 8 PAGE 53 Browser Bars and Menus There are 7 different Browser Bars which provide you with various resources and tools to create powerful interactive lessons. Interactive Lesson - Containers (Objects) Creating Containers in with ActivInspire is a very fun and easy way to create interactive games and informal assessments for your students. 1. With your shape tool create the shape you wish to use as a container. (Rectangles work well) 2. Click on the Shape you just created and Click the copy button on your object tool bar twice (pops up when you select any image). 3. You now have three shapes that are the same size. 4. Select 3 images/text you wish to have contained from your resource browser, the internet, etc. and place them on the flipchart. 5. Using your Test Tool type out your title and any other identifying text you wish to have screen.
PAGE 52 PAGE 9 Rotate Freely - Continued Browser Tool Bar The Resource Browser 8. Now just fill the image with objects layered behind your image. (Use the Object Browser to Manage Layers. Make sure one image is on the top layer and all other images, objects, or text is on the middle or background.) Just think about the possibilities! I can just imagine how students would remember Newton's Laws better if it came out of his head or better yet take snapshots of your students and use their heads! Or have a picture of a mouth that you can open and close with the caption "You took the words right out of my mouth." I created a treasure chest so that vocabulary and spelling words could be pulled out and reviewed.
AC TIVIN SP IR E PAGE 10 PAGE 51 Object Tool Bar Interactive Lessons Rotate Freely 1. Select an image. 2. With the camera tool, take a snapshot of the top part and the bottom part of your image. Now the image is "sliced" into two parts. 3. Make a small circle with the shapes tool in order to rotate around. 4. Select the top part of your picture by clicking on it. 5.Click the Property Browser go to the Rotate section. By "Can Rotate" choose "freely," 6. by "Rotate About" choose "Other Object" and by "Rotate Object" click on the... and find your small circle image. 7. In the Property Browser scroll down to "Can Move" and choose "No." (This will make sure that your top part of the image will rotate 360 degrees around the small circle and not move off).
PAGE 50 PAGE 11 AP P Interactive Lesson Extract Text. Extracting a word from a paragraph of text is easy and a great way to copy specific words from a larger text selection. 1.With the Select Tool, right-click on the word and choose Extract Text. How do I calibrate the board? 1. Hover your pen tip over the Promethean Flame in the upper left corner of your Promethean Board. (Remember do not touch the flame just hover about an 1/8 over the flame. 2. Follow the on screen directions. Tap your pen tip anywhere on the surface to begin the calibration process. With the pen touch each of the X s consecutively as they pop up on the board until the calibration process is complete. How do I use the ActivPen? The Activpen is a wireless mouse-pen. You can use it to write like you would with a pen, however tapping the tip of the pen to the board is the equivalent to a left-click. The button on the Activpen is equivalent to a right-click on a mouse.
PAGE 12 PAGE 49 How do I write on the flipchart using the pen or highlighter? Change colors? Change thickness? 1. Click the pen button. 2. Use the pen to write or draw on the Promethean board. 3. To change the pen color. 4. Pick a color from the Color Palette to change the color. 6. To change the thickness of the pen, choose one of the pre-selected thickness circles or slide the Pen Width Selector to the size you desire. Interactive Lessons Drag and Copy You can make an endless supply of manipulatives very quickly by using the "Drag a Copy" feature. 1. Right Click any picture, object, or shape and then click on "Drag a Copy" 2. Now you have an unlimited supply of that picture, object, shape. 3. When you hover over the image, you will now see a hand and green plus sign which shows you can drag a copy. How do I erase what I ve written? Select the Eraser Tool. Erase over any mistakes you have made with the Pen Tool or the Highlighter Tool. ( You may also change the thickness of the eraser.)
PAGE 48 PAGE 13 Interactive Graphs 17. Scroll down the list until you locate and click on Stretch Incrementally. 18. Click on the target ellipses box. 19. Select the first rectangle you want to stretch. Click OK 20. Change the y increments you would like to see change to a positive or negative #. For example 25 or 25. This will determine whether the bar graph will rise up or down. Repeat steps 16-20 for the remaining 5 arrows. You have now successfully created an interactive bar graph. How do I erase typed text and objects? 1. Click on the Clear Tool. 2. You will be given options as to what you would like to clear. You can also clear most objects in ActivInspire by clicking the object so that it is selected and clicking delete on the keyboard. Finally, you could select the object, and drag it into the trashcan to delete it. If the trashcan does not appear on your flipchart page, go to View on the top toolbar, and select Flipchart Trashcan.
PAGE 14 PAGE 47 How do I change or create a background? 1. You may choose from the precreated background templates located in your resource browser. -OR- 1. You may also right click on the blank canvas of the flip chart area. 2. Click on Set Background 3. Under the Fill option to the right you may click on the three color choice squares to change/alter the color and layout of your background. 4. Click on the image option and you may browse and insert an image that you have saved to a picture folder in your computer. Interactive Graphs - Using Actions In ActivInspire you can create interactive bar graphs using the Actions. For example, the bars on the graph are set to increase and decrease by clicking on the up or down arrows. The bar increases or decreases by 10 increments in relation to the Y axis on the graph. 1. Click on the resource browser 2. In the Search Box type xy graph, press enter 3. Several images will populate in the browser. Select the graph titled XY lines grid.ao2 and drag it out onto the flipchart. 4. Click Connector tool on your main tool bar 5. Choose a color from the palette. 6. Draw out the X and Y lines of your graph 7. Click on the Shape Tool 8. Click on the rectangle /square 9. Choose a color from the color pal- ette 10. Draw out a rectangle. 11. Repeat steps 7 10 two more times 12. Click on the resource browser again type arrow in the search box. 13. Drag out a total of six arrow (three up/three down). 14. Click on the Action Browser 15. Click the Current selection tab 16. Click on one of the arrows to select it.
PAGE 46 PAGE 15 Interactive Graphs In ActivInspire you can create interactive bar graphs using the Actions. For example, in the flipchart "All about Actions" found on Promethean Planet the bars on the graph are set to increase and decrease by clicking on the up or down arrows. The bar increases or decreases by 10 increments in relation to the Y axis on the graph because of the Action Properties that were set. Saving Your Custom Backgrounds Once you have created your custom background now you can save it to your resource library for future use. 1. In Shared Resources Browser click on the back ground folder to which you would like to save your custom background. 2. Right click anywhere on the flipchart canvas. 3. Select Add to Resource Library 4. Select Add Page You have saved your custom background for future use.
PAGE 16 PAGE 45 How do I add text to my flipchart? (typing) 1. Click the Text button on the main toolbar. 2. Click on the flipchart page where you want the text to appear. 3. Type your text. When you are finished click the Text button again to turn off the text tool, 4. otherwise you will continue to add textboxes to your flipchart page. You may change the style, font size, and color by: 1. Double-clicking your text box to select/highlight the text. The formatting toolbar will appear at the top of the flipchart. 2. Choose a button from the formatting toolbar to change your text. Interactive Action Buttons You can program buttons to turn to the next page, previous page, first page or the last page. You can also program buttons to turn on any tool like the highlighter, ruler, compass, etc. Lets begin with a simple button that will turn pages. 1.Click on the resource browser 2. In the Search Box type Arrow, press enter 3. Several images will populate in the browser. Select the arrow of your choice and drag it out onto the flipchart. 4. Select the opposite arrow as well and drag it to the desk top. Now you have one arrow for next page and one for previous page. 5. Click on the object (arrow) to select it. 6. Click on the Action Browser 7. Click the Drag and Drop tab 8. Click, drag and drop the next page action out and directly onto the arrow you wish to assign that action. 9. Click, drag and drop the previous page action out and directly onto the arrow you wish to assign that action. 10. Now you have action buttons that will turn the page of you flipchart.
PAGE 44 PAGE 17 Interactive Lessons - Using Color to Hide/Reveal White ink can be used against a white background to create secret messages or reveal the correct answers when the time is right. How do you do this? The example below shows how this is done with a matching activity. 1. Click the connector but- ton, and choose the diagonal line. 2. Choose white ink from the color palette. 3. Draw white lines from each vocabulary word to the correct definition. Be sure you have a white background so that the lines you draw will not show up. 4. Save the flipchart. 5. When you use the flipchart with students, have students use a dark color to draw the lines from the vocabulary words to the definitions. 6. To check the answers, use the fill tool to fill in the background with a color. Now the white lines will show up and you can check the student s answers against the white lines that reveal the correct answers. (See below) ** This concept can be applied to many things. For example, try using white text on a white background and using a fill color to reveal a secret message. How do I add shapes? Change color? Size? 1. Click on the Shape Tool. 2. Click on the desired shape. 3. Select the color you would like for the inside of the shape. 4. Click on the flipchart page and drag with your mouse until you get the size of the shape that you wish to create. 5. To change the size of the shape at anytime, click on the Select tool. 6. Select the shape. 7. Click on any of the four corners, to change the size. Select the lower, right-hand corner to keep the aspect ratio. BEFORE AFTER
PAGE 18 PAGE 43 How do I get to the Resource Browser to add images, backgrounds, and other media? 1. Click on the Resource Browser button. 2. You can access images, games, flipcharts, backgrounds, etc. by clicking on the category of your choice, selecting an item, and dragging it onto the flipchart page. 3. By selecting on various buttons in the Resource Browser, you can access different resources. Interactive Lesson Pull Tabs and Restrictors Restrict Pull Tabs and other objects to a specific path. 1. Click on the pull tab (or other objects you wish to restrict to a path) to select it. 2. Click on the Properties Browser. 3. Click Restrictors 4. Change the can move to horizontal or vertical based on your preference. Your pull tab or object is now restricted to a path. The icon you want to select to access all of the content from the software is Shared Resources. Click on the Tools icon to access valuable tools such as Magic Ink, Handwriting Recognition, Shape Recognition, the Revealer, the Spotlight, etc. Some featured tools that you may want use are - Advance Uses of Restrictors 1. With the pen tool draw out the path for your object. 2. Click on to your object 3. Click the Properties browser. 4. Click Restrictors 5. Change the Can move to Along Path. 6. Click the on the move path 7. In the pop up window select the line you drew. 8. Click Ok You object is now restricted to the path you have designated.
PAGE 42 PAGE 19 Interactive Lessons -Pull Tabs and Restrictors Tools Continued Restrictors can be used to restrict an object s movement: vertically, horizontally, freely, or along a path. Before After 1. Click on the Resource Browser 2. Click on the folder Resource Packs 3. Click on the Pull Tabs Folder 4. Select your choice of a pull tab and drag it onto the canvas of the flipchart. 5. Click on the Text Tool 6. Type the text you want dis- played in the pull tab text box. 7. Using the editing tool bar above change the font size, color, etc. 8. Click the selector tool on your main tool bar. 9. Move the text inside of the box area of your pull-tab object. Resize your text as needed. 10. Place your mouse icon to the upper left corner of the pull tab object and click and drag across both the pulltab object and the text so both are selected. 11. Click the group tab in the object browser. With handwriting or shape recognition, you can write on the board and your handwriting will turn into text. You can also draw a shape and it will turn your drawings into shapes. Reveal part of the flipchart page at a time. Pull up the screen from the bottom, top, right, or left. Allows educators to hide content to be revealed later on in the lesson. Put the Spotlight on important information in your lesson. If you would like the spotlight window smaller or larger, touch your pen to the inside of the spotlight and drag to enlarge the area. Move the spotlight around by clicking and dragging in the black area outside the spotlight. To turn off the spotlight, click on the icon next to it and select Close. Now you can slide the pull tab off the flipchart to be revealed at will. Continued on next page
PAGE 20 PAGE 41 Preset Spotlight / Revealer When creating flipcharts, you may want to preset the Revealer or the Spotlight Tool to turn on automatically when you turn to that page. 1. Go to you page browser and click on the page in your flipchart in which you would like the reveal or spotlight tool to be automatically turned on. 2. Click on the Properties Browser 3. Click on Tools 4. Under the Page Tools drop menu change it to Revealer tool or the Spotlight Tool. 5. Change the Revealer or Spotlight mode to your preference. Special note The tool will automatically stay turned on for the subsequent pages unless you go to the next page and set the page tool to off. Hyperlink to a Document, File or Website You can easily launch a document, file or website directly from your flipchart by simply clicking on an image or object. Link a File: 1.Click in any object (picture, shape or text) to select it. 2. Click on Insert from the top toolbar. 3. Click Link 4. Click File 5. Browse the folder in your computer to locate the file of your choice. 6. Select the file 7. Click Open. 8. You have choices under Add Link As.. The must user friendly and common option is Existing Object 9. Click OK. Now your file has been successfully linked. Link a Website: 1.Click in any object (picture, shape or text) to select it. 2. Click on Insert from the top toolbar. 3. Click Link 4. Click Website 5. Enter the web address manually or the copy paste feature 8. You have choices under Add Link As.. The must user friendly and common option is Existing Object 9. Click OK. Your website has been successfully linked.
PAGE 40 PAGE 21 Interactive Lessons - Adding Sound Add an mp3 sound file 1. Clicking on Insert from the top toolbar. 2. Click Media 3. Browse for the file, 4. Select the file 5. Click, Open. An action button will be created to open the sound file. When you click on the action button, it will play the mp3 file. Tools, Tools, Tools The Camera Tool is used to capture an image of your desktop or flipchart. You can take a photograph of the whole screen or you can choose a specific area on the screen to capture. Creating Your Very Own Sound Recording 1. Click on the Windows Start Button. 2. Click inside the Search Bar and type Sound Recorder 3. Click on the Program listed above Sound Recorder to open it. 4. Click Start Recording 5. Start speaking. 6. Click stop when you are finished. 7. In the Save pop window give your sound recording a name. 8. Click Save Now follow steps 1-5 above to add your sound file to your flipchart. 1. Click the camera tool button from the Tools menu. Choose the type of picture you want from the menu. Area Snapshot A highlighted box is displayed. Click inside the box and drag to move it. Change the measurements with the handles. For small changes, use the position controls within the box. Point to Point Snapshot Click and drag, drawing straight lines to enclose a highlighted outline area on the grayed-out screen. The area cannot be moved or modified. If you need to change it, just close the Camera Snapshot box and try again. Freehand Snapshot Click and drag, drawing freehand to enclose a highlighted outline area on the greyed-out screen. The area cannot be moved or modified If you need to change it, just close the Camera Snapshot box and try again.
PAGE 22 PAGE 39 Tools Camera Tool 2. Select where you want your picture to go: Current Page Capture the image to the current flipchart page. New Page Capture the image to a new page at the end of the flipchart. Clipboard Capture the image to the clipboard. My Resources Capture the image to the My Resources folder. Shared Resources Capture the image to the Shared Resources folder. Embedding Video 1. Click on Insert from the top toolbar. 2. Click Media 3. Browse through your computers files for the video you wish to embed in you flipchart. 4. Select the file, and click Open. 5. The movie will automatically begin playing. 1. To make adjustments to your movie 2. Select the movie by clicking directly on it with the Select tool 3. Click on the Property Browser 4. Scroll down to Multimedia. There are options there for autoplay, looping, etc. True means yes and False means no.
PAGE 38 Lessons Integrating Video - How to Download Movie Clips 1. Open up any video of your choice in any of the following websites - Teacher Tube - You Tube - Google Video 2. Right click on the URL Address (Website address) to select the entire address. (It should be highlighted blue) 3. Click Copy 4. Open up ATUBE Catcher on your desk top. 5. Click the paste button. PAGE 23 Using the on-screen calculator for multi-step problems 1. Activate the on-screen calculator. Click on Tools > Math Tools > Calculator. 2. Type in your problem and click "equal". 3. Once the answer is displayed, you will also see the math problem typed out in small font along the top of the calculator. 4. Click on this problem and drag it off onto the flipchart. 5. You can now display the problem automatically that you entered into the calculator this way. This is great for recording multiple steps as you arrive at your answer. 6. Click download.
PAGE 24 PAGE 37 Screen Recorder This tool allows you to capture whatever happens on screen to a video file (.AVI), which you can keep in your flipchart, or save to a resources folder and replay as often as required. 1. Go to Tools > More Tools > Screen Recorder 2. Click the Screen Recorder tool. 3. Click the red Record button and type a filename in the Save As window. Click Save. 3. The red Record button will begin blinking to indicate that it is recording. Complete the actions you want to record, and click the Stop (black square) button. 4. Click the Play button to play your recording back in Windows Media Player. 5. You can also find your recording saved in the folder you designated it to save to in step 2. Interactive Lesson Magic Revealers Magic Revealers - reveal all items located on the middle layer of a flipchart. This is very important to remember. If not then the magic revealers will not work the way you intended. In the following example I have used a magic revealer as an X- ray like machine to study the anatomy of humans. This type of lesson can be duplicate with any topic or content area. The possible uses of this tool are limitless. 1. Go to the resource browser and find a picture for the top layer. (I have chosen a picture of a man in this example). 2. Chose the picture, text or object you wish to place on the middle layer for the grand revelation. Place it in the precise place of your choice in any area the 1st image you chose. (In the above example I have chosen the human digestive system.) 3. To change the layer each object is placed on Click on your object browser. All of the objects on the flipchart page will be listed. Now you can click an object and drag it to different layers. The hidden item must be on the middle layer. All other objects must be placed on the top layer. 4. Click on the resource browser again and pick a magic reveal tool. Test it out to see if it works.
PAGE 36 PAGE 25 Interactive Lessons - Fun with Layers Promethean software utilizes layers to achieve interactivity: top layer, middle layer, bottom layer, and the background. By layering objects on different layers, you can hide objects behind other objects. Often to achieve this, you ll need to lock the object on the top layer in place so it doesn t move. In this example above, the magic hat is an image locked on the top layer, and the other images are on the middle layer. If the magic hat wall wasn t locked in place, it would move when you try to click the objects behind it. Now you can pull the other images out of the hat one at a time during the lesson. Clock Tool and Countdown Sometimes a count down or timer tool comes in very handy. 1. Click on the tools icon, go to more tools. 2. Choose the clock You can change the view to digital or to both. lock an image in place? 1. Right-click on the object. 2. Select Locked. How do you To Countdown. How do you check which layer your images are on? 1. Open your Object Browser 2. All of the objects on the flipchart page will be listed. Now you can click an drag object to different layers. 1. Click on the down arrows at the top right. Change the time shown to a suitable amount. You can choose if you would like a sound to play once the time has expired. You can also choose for something to happen once the time has run out, such as turn to another page. 1.
PAGE 26 PAGE 35 Ticker Tape Communicate in a whole new way using Ticker Tape. You can program any message to scroll across your screen at any speed you wish. You can use it for reminders or a silent form of communication during testing, etc. It is fun and it is easy to use. Interactive Lessons - Hide and Reveal 7. At the bottom of the Action Browser, you will see a Target field. 1. Click on the Power Tools Icon on your main tool bar. 2. Select More Tools 3. Select TickerTape 4. Type your Ticker Tape Message. 5. You can change the font color, by clicking on the color bars to the right. 6. You can change the font style and size by clicking the bar titled Font 7. You can change the background color by click on the color bar 8. Change the position to the top middle or bottom of the screen 9. Finally change the speed of your message with the slider bar titled tickertape speed 8. Click the Ellipsis ( ) box 9. Then browse and select the answer you wish to hide and reveal. 10. Click OK. 11. At the bottom of the action browser click apply changes. When you move your mouse over the textbox Answer, you ll see a blue and white triangle appear to indicate the textbox has an action associated with it. Click it to make the second textbox appears and disappears. The same hide and reveal feature is applicable to pictures and objects. You program any button, picture, shape or object to turn on and off / hide and reveal any other picture, shape or object.
PAGE 34 Interactive Lessons - Hide and Reveal You can use the hidden action to hide and show an object on the flipchart. Using this action is a quick and easy way to hide important parts of the flipchart until you want them revealed. On the flipchart page below, you ll see an answer button. When it is clicked, the answer will appear. Click the answer button a second time, and it hides again. PAGE 27 Increase the size of your toolbar How do you do this? 1. Click Ctrl + J 2. You will see a label for "icon size". 3. Slide the slider to the right to make the toolbar bigger. 4. Click "Done" to save your settings. Before After 1. Click the text tool. Type the word Answer on the flipchart. (I also changed the background color of the textbox so that it looks like a button instead of a textbox.) 2. Type a separate textbox with the text that you want hidden. 3. Click on the textbox that says Answer to select it. (If you don t select it the next step will not work.) Page Zoom 1.Click View and choose Page Zoom. (Control + Shift + Z) 2. Click on an area on your flipchart page with an image and hold. It will zoom in! 4. Click the Action Browser 5. Make sure the current selection tab is selected. Scroll down the actions until you find Hidden. 6. Click Hidden to select it.
PAGE 28 PAGE 33 Customize you Main Tool Bar Make your TOOL BAR work for you. 1.Click View 2.Click Customize 3. The left column shows all of the tools available. The right column shows which tools currently have on you main tool bar. Interactive Lessons - Magic Reveals Using Color Using the Fill Tool to Color Text 1. Type the desired text on the page using the text tool, 2. Use the fill tool to change the color of each word quickly. 3. To do this, click the fill tool and make sure the tip of the paint drip is touching one of the letters in the word you want to change. Click the letter. It changes to the color you selected. Educational applications: Have students color code parts of speech, main ideas, details, or keywords. In a reading or paragraph. This can also be used with numbers in math! The same concept can be applied to objects, like shapes, lines, or annotations that you add to the page. 4. If there is a tool you do not want on your main tool bar click on that tool to select it and then click the remove button. 5. If is a particular tool that is not on your main tool bar in which you would like to add then select the tool of your choice in the left column and then click the add button.
PAGE 32 PAGE 29 Captions as a Tooltip Action You can program any object to reveal a caption just by hovering your pen tip over the object. 1. Click on any object to assign a tooltip caption to. 2. Open the Property Browser. 3. Scroll down to the "Label" section. 4. Type in the Caption you would like to appear. 5. Choose Behavior "tooltip" to have the caption appear when you hover over it on your flipchart page. Changing the Default Tool within Flipcharts If you use flipcharts in ActivInspire, you may notice that when you open the flipchart, it defaults to pen tool. Some teachers find this frustrating since they usually do not want to write on the title page of the flipchart. Changing the default tool to the selector (arrow) may make things easier for you. To do this, follow these steps (see picture below). 1. Click File on the main menu and choose Settings. 2. Choose the Settings tab. 3. Choose Tools on the left menu. 4. Under default tool, pull down the window and choose Select. (Select is the same as the arrow.) 5. Click Done at the bottom of the page. Now when you open a flipchart, the select tool will appear by default instead of the pen tool. Repeat the steps for as many captions as you need. How clever that you can use a text box with a couple of blank spaces to attach the caption.
PAGE 30 PAGE 31 How do I use the ActivInspire tools with other applications on your desktop? Interactive Lessons Magic Reveals Using Color to Hide Text Use the Desktop Annotate button to use ActivInspire tools with websites and software applications. When the Desktop Annotate button is selected, a transparent flipchart is created. You can then write, highlight, etc. on top of websites and software programs. To go back to your flipchart, simply click the Desktop Annotate button again. How do I see all of my flipchart pages? Move a page? Delete a page? 1. The Page Browser button allows you to see all of your flipchart pages as thumbnails. 2. You can adjust the thumbnail view by clicking on the slider in the lower right-hand corner of the Page Browser viewing window. 3. To move a page, drag the thumbnail to the desired location in the Page Browser viewing window. Before After 1. Begin by setting your background color. Click the paint bucket Choose the color Click on the blank canvas of your flipchart 2. Insert and image from your resource browser or the internet. 3. Type your answers using the text tool. 4. Select the Pen tool choose the same color you used for your background. 5. Now scribble over your typed answers so they are hidden by annotations. (This gives the visual illusion that there are no answers because the color of your pen annotations matches the same color of your background.) 6. Now when you or your students are ready to reveal the answer simply use the eraser tool to magically erase and reveal your answer.