According to Marzano, use of the Smartboard 75% of the time is the magic number.
Sarah Lorntson is the Smart Specialist for Tierney Brothers for this session. She teaches English at Mahtomedi.
PD@tierneybros.com is the contact for Tierney Brothers, Audio and Visual Design Integration.
A Smartboard is Resistive Technology. You can make your own pointer or use cush balls, or use the pen tools that come with the board. On the pen tray are the four styluses. To Orient the board, weekly, hold down two buttons, use stylus to drag in and let go at all points. Right mouse click button is on the tray, tap and touch board to use right click button. Tap keyboard button. Wireless keyboard for in the classroom can work well. The pen tray is an optical port, do not cover the port. Pull pen out of tray and write with that color. Draw circle and tap in the middle to erase.
Text recognition, write at once, drop down menu, and will make it a text; play with languages to check Chinese characters. Double tap on text box to change.
Side tabs: My Content, Gallery, Timer, Lesson Activity Toolkit, Gallery Sampler. Use something alot, put it in my content. Use for vocab practice, flashing through. Attachments, you can attach things together and keep things. The Page Sorter, you can see your pages. Properties Tab, manipulate objects on your pages.
The Pen and Highlighter: different pens for writing, can adjust properties of the pens. Erase and reveal is another tool.
The Line Tool: You can customize the tools. Use the properties tab. Make drawings with the line tool. SMART educator teaches math teachers: Harvey’s Home Page is his website. You can save your drawings in your gallery for multi-use.
Open two files at the same time and drag pages from the Page Sorter.
The Shape Tool: In Canada, they use checks for correct answers and SMART is a Canadian tool. Check means right and x means wrong. Use properties tab and you can use animation.
The Magic Pen: spotlight is a circle, disappearing ink, rectangle is a magnifier.
The Text Tool: you can save your preferred fonts. Styles, etc. Page recording can move your text around. Play and go through the text. You can record your voice with them. Match color with eye-dropper and line style.
Magnifying glass is a gallery picture but it is grouped with a white circle as a spotlight. Text written as the same color, slide white mag under it and the text shows up.
There is also the Smart Recorder, you can talk. Saves as Video File, and can be uploaded as youtube. Smart recorder saves the files as large files. Jing can also do the same thing, free and it is a screen casting site. Jing files can be imported into lesson, has to be a flash video. Could be attached as Mp4. Flash is imbedded.
Screen Capture Tool. Put any pictures in Your Content.
Properties Tab. Fonts, colors, animation, object animation, use a lot to reveal answers, tap on each one and it reveals itself, fades in. Screen shade, pull shade, covers the page, tap and drag circle to move the shade. Save as an object with the page. Double tap and it snaps up.
Screen Capture, Copy, and Paste. Copy and paste from the internet, then cite sources. Then drag URL, to cite source. Cannot upload on the internet without permission. Flicker is a photo-sharing website, explore and search for files that have creative commons licensing. If you cite source, you can use it for anything. Sharing online, cannot share online, if you can use in your school. Screen capture, get on to your online textbook, take a picture of anything on the page,
Toolbar. Right click on anything on the Tool Bar to add and remove. Customize Toolbar. Put Smart Recorder on the Tool Bar. Right click on Tool Bar at top and drag stuff, remove stuff.
Tables: Drag and Drop. To move whole table, use arrow and then cover and drag entire table. Right click on cells to do things in each cell. You can put things like pictures in each cell. Sort and visualize organize using tables.
The Floating Toolbar. Smartboard tools, floating tools, can do things in other programs, you can use them in other programs. Use spotlight tool as a rectangle, watching youtube videos to eliminate ads. When connected to Smartboard it is always open.
The Drop Down Menu/Editing Objects:
Cloner: infinite cloner, drag picutres, accent marks, etc., punctuation marks, categories.
Link: link to a website, can also link to another page in the document, Jeopardy game with $ page and then questions, or a document with linking to pages with definitions, link to a glossary page; link to a file on the computer such as a movie as a copy of the file or a short-cut so it is not saved to the lesson it is only linked to computer file or a USB key, (globe is for internet, paperclip is for another file),.
Locking: control g is group, control k is lock. Only lock stuff if you need to. It is annoying to unlock objects. Grouping is handy to create a new object. Highlight, and then group. Double click on a shape, it will have a textbox pop-up. Can put things off-screen attached to things on screen. Unlocked to group.
Pull Tabs: from the toolkit. Group and ungroup.
Ordering: add objects, laying, made last it is on top, but place in order as needed according to properties from the drop-down menu.
Digital Ink Layer: Pick up pen and automatically ink will pop up, write on a cite and save annotiation.
Flash or FLV needed to save in SMART.
Keepvid – website, copy url for youtube video, go to keepvid.com, click download, can download as a FLV, as mp3, audio, use keepvid, embed in SMART, insert FLV, Insert flash video file, makes lesson size larger, can link or embed, keepvid, do not stream because it hogs the bandwidth, (not have ads on youtube, as a can of worms), embed video into notebook lesson.
Audio, can also embed audio, attach an mp3, click insert, a copy of the file, click to listen, link to current attachment.
Transparency tool: can use over other applications.
Vertically Challenged, put toolbar on the bottom.
Lessons: see what people do with notebook.
Hamletfiletype:notebook – can search and using this, all notebook types save with :notebook.
Notebook Express. Put on Website as pdf’s on website.
Can submit notebook files, get on their email list, monthly newsletter that comes out, SMART tech website, see contests, EDCompass every month, sign up, tips and tricks, and any contests they are running on the exchange, visual appeal, lesson design, attractive.
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