SMART Board

Workshop

Introduction – Doreen Pietrantoni -

Todd Smith -

  • Review SMART Board features
  • Hands on experience with software and board
  • Connections to Common Core Standards

Resources:

SMARTtech Website

Teq Website

Ways to use the SMARTBoard in the Classroom (Located in the SMART Gallery – Lesson Activity Toolkit 2.0 – Activities)

  1. Anagrams
  2. Category Sort
  3. Image Arrange, Match Select
  4. Keyword Match
  5. Multiple Choice
  6. Note Reveal
  7. Sentence Arrange
  8. Vortex Sort (for image or text)
  9. Word Biz, Word Guess
  10. Timelines
  11. Graphic Organizers

Web-based resources:

Video on Demand – - instructional multimedia, use school computer to log in

OverDrive eBooks & Audio Book – - eBooks and Audio books, use school computer to log in

Thinkfinity - - interactive resources – Wonderopolis is a favorite

Tips and Tricks with SMARTNotebook 10

The Lesson Activity Toolkit has so many activity templates ready for your use, however; there may be times that you need customized activities. This workshop will assist you in creating your own activities using SMARTNotebook 10.

One of the easiest methods to use is layering. Because everything in Notebook is an object, they may be moved, grouped and layered on top or behind one another.

Basic Layering

Method 1: Hide and Reveal

  1. Type text or add clipart for your example.

  2. Draw a rectangle that will cover the text/clipart you have added.
  3. Fill the rectangle with a color of your choosing.
  4. Place the rectangle over the text/clipart.
  5. Students will move the rectangle to reveal the correct answer.

Method 2: Erase and Reveal

  1. Type text or add clipart for your example
  2. Select the Pen Tool and change the color to match your background.
  3. Change the Pen Tool to the largest size possible
  4. Cover your text/clipart with “ink” from the formatted pen tool
  5. Students erase the ink to reveal the answer

Method 3: Pull and Reveal

  1. Select the Shapes button and choose a shape for your “handle”
  2. Fill it with a color of your choosing
  3. Type label for handle. (EX. “Pull Here”)
  4. Type information to be attached to the handle
  5. Drag the two text boxes together and group
  6. Push so that the text is out of sight.

Advanced Layering or Filtering

  1. Draw 2 boxes and fill each with a different color, I’ll use red and blue.
  2. Place them side by side and group.

  3. Type the text to be used in your activity. Format text to be the same color as your boxes.
  4. Drag text into boxes. One set appears and the other disappears.

Using this same principal let’s create a different type activity.

  1. Draw a rectangle, fill it with the color of your choice and place it at the bottom of the window. Add text. Lock the rectangle and text in place.

  2. From the gallery, select pictures to be identified and place them on your sheet. Ex. States, flags, phases of moon, animals, colors, historical people
  3. Type labels under each of the pics, change the color of the text to be the same as the background.
  4. Group the two objects together.

  5. Have students go to board and label pics using the physical pens, or their fingers to write. Then drag the pic down to the “magic box” to check for accuracy.

Magnifying Glass Activity

  1. Select map or background of your choice (…KISS)
  2. Get the magnifying glass from the gallery.
  3. Create a circle and fill it with a color of your choice inside the magnifying glass. Group the two items together
  4. Create labels for your map or background and change to same color as background. This text layer should be in the front. Check layers by right clicking the layer > Order > Send to Front
  5. You have 3 layers: picture on bottom, magnifier and the text layer is on the top.
  6. Students will now go to the board and move the magnifying glass to the appropriate location.

Ex. “Susie please come to the board and locate Texas.”

Linking

Linking is a real time saver! As you can see from the dialog box at the right, it is really easy to link to either a web page, another page in the notebook file, another file stored on your computer or to attachments stored in this notebook.

  1. Web Page
  2. Simply copy the URL of the web page you want to link to. Paste that URL in the Address box at the top of the Insert Link dialog box.
  3. Select how you want to launch either by clicking a corner icon or clicking the object.
  4. Click OK
  1. Page in this notebook file
  2. Select the page you want to link to.
  3. Ideas: answer/solution page, next page, previous page
  4. Click OK
  1. File on this Computer
  2. Click “Browse” and navigate to the file that is being linked.
  3. There are two option for inserting, select the appropriate option
  4. Click OK
  1. Link to an Attachment
  2. Basically the same as above. Files that you have added to the attachments tab will be displayed. Select the appropriate file.
  3. Select how you want the item to be launched.
  4. Click OK.

Object Animations

Flip Around Axis

1. Select the shape on the left and drag it below the answer box.

2. Click the Properties tab.

3. Click the Object Animation button.

4. For Type select Flip Around Axis.

5. Set the Direction to Top Edge.

6. Click on the page background.

7. Drag the shape back below the answer box.

Gallery Tools

Sentence arrange

1. Click Gallery Tab

2. Click Lesson Activity Toolkit 2.0

3. Select “Interactive and Multimedia”

4. Click and drag “Sentence arrange” into SMART Notebook slide (or double click)

5. Click “Edit”

6. Enter text

7. Select or deselect “Solve button”

8. Click “Ok”

Keyword Match

1. Click Gallery Tab

2. Click Lesson Activity Toolkit 2.0

3. Select “Interactive and Multimedia”

4. Click and drag “Keyword match” into SMART Notebook slide (or double click)

5. Click “Edit”

6. Type in “Word”

7. Type in “Description”

8. Select or deselect “Solve button”

9. Click “Ok”

10. Match by dragging “Word” to match correct “Description”

11. Click “Reset” to begin again

Vortex sort

1. Click Gallery Tab

2. Click Lesson Activity Toolkit 2.0

3. Select “Interactive and Multimedia”

4. Click and drag “Vortex sort” into SMART Notebook slide (or double click)

5. Click “Edit”

6. Assign labels to Vortex 1 and Vortex 2 (ex. “True” and “False”)

7. Type in associated labels

8. Select or deselect “Rotate vortices”

9. Click “Ok”

10. Match by dragging “Label” to correct vortex

11. Click “Reset” to begin again

Timeline reveal

1. Click Gallery Tab

2. Click Lesson Activity Toolkit 2.0

3. Select “Interactive and Multimedia”

4. Click and drag “Timeline reveal” into SMART Notebook slide (or double click)

5. Click “Edit”

6. Select number of dates

7. Enter date

8. Enter description

9. Click “Ok”

10. Select date