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ActiveInspire

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Agenda

Introduction Flipchart

Introductions (Online Name Picker) & Welcome to Our Wiki (What is a Wiki?)

 

Intake Survey  What do results look like?  Survey results.  Plugged into Wordle

 

Downloadable Cool Timer (link to any sound) and The Hat Random Name Picker (saves name lists)

 

Remembering Student Engagement    Student Engagement Strategies   

How can you use the Interactive Whiteboard to deepen student understanding and engagement?

How and why is this thing better than a dry erase board or pencil and paper?

 

Online Interactivity:

 

Thinkfinity.org (50,000 Lesson Ideas, many with interactive components such as Power Up, Fraction Models, and BioCube)

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Starfall

Launchball (from www.sciencemuseum.org.uk) 

Magic Pen 

 

What could you learn by next meeting and how?

Promethean Skills list.xls  

Promethean Use Rubric.doc

 

Resources for Learning On Your Own:

Help in ActivInspire

 

Promethean Planet

 

iTunes Video Podcasts

Promethean Planet - ActivTips

Promethean Planet - Teacher Feature

Go to the iTunes Store and search under Promethean and see what you find

Eg: Scott Caufield teaching about searching the Resource Library from ActivTips in iTunes

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=61005958&id=260527899

(Mentions pinning the resource library, image, background and page searches; resource packs downloaded from Promethean Planet)

Applying Higher Level Thinking with Activ (Scott Caulfield)

Activate Your Lesson Design (Amy Beechy)

YouTube

 

ActivInspire:  The Software

 

Skills Block 1 - Workbook 1.flipchart

Technique:  Reveal with Paintbucket and marquee tool 

Overview or Apples with Reveals

Accessing Promethean Planet: Downloading flipcharts, accessing ActivTips, and ActivLearning Tutorial

Opening a new flipchart. Saving a flipchart

Page Browser

Using basic tools--pen, select tool, text tool, highlighter, eraser, clear

Undo, Re-do, Erase

         Shape tool - change fill and line color

Highlight text

Spell Check

Add Rubber Stamp to toolbar

Using Resource Library: adding backgrounds and images to flipchart pages

Questions on a page

Hidden Text reveal with paint bucket

Hidden text with reveal box

Tickertape

 

Skills Block 2 - Workbook 2.flipchart

Layering

Object Browser to change layers

Properties of the top layer

Erasing with Magic Ink

Building flipcharts with resources (backgrounds and images) and tools (pen, text, highlighter)

Customizing toolbar and Profile settings

Using Resources from library: backgrounds, images, templates, grids, sounds

Using Focus Tools:  Reveal tool, Spotlight, Zoom tool

Using text edit: change font, color, size

Connector Tool

Camera Tool

Clock

Sound Recorder

Calculator

Dice

Ruler

Protractor

Compass

 

 

Workbook 3.flipchart

Using page notes: learn about flipcharts made by others, leave notes for yourself

Review

Practice layering and adding objects to flipcharts

Drag words from behind locked objects or layers

Create a Magic Ink activity

Describe how to add tools to the toolbar

Connectors

Measure angles

Compass practice

Set profiles and customize other settings

Set the XY Origin

Multiple copies of an object/word

Transform - Align copies

Import PowerPoint and PDF

Link to files and web pages

Add Video

 

Skills Block 3

Building on flipchart development: create pages that students interact with.

Utilize: Locking, Drag a Copy

Utilize Grouping of objects

Use page organizer to navigate and reorder pages

Integrating Power Tools: camera, ruler, protractor, clock, shape tool, as appropriate

Demonstrating deeper knowledge of Resource Library

 

Skills Block 4

Building on flipchart development: student interaction

Linking objects: websites, files, videos

Using other programs (Internet, etc.)

Annotating over other applications (Internet, Word, etc.)

Incorporating Drag and Copy Action Objects into flipcharts

Utilizing camera tool to add content to flipcharts

 

Skills Block 5

Building on flipchart development: Advanced student interaction

Importing images, links, files, PDFs

Demonstrating knowledge of layers (object browser): top, middle, bottom-front to back

Using grids, snapping to grid

Utilizing video or sound recorder

Using Magic Ink and Magic Reveals

Implementing layering and locking to hide information

 

Skills Block 6

Building on flipchart development: Use across curriculum areas

Setting User Defined buttons

Creating and saving 'My Resources'

Building magic reveals

Accessing ActivTips

Adding actions to objects

Containers

Reveals

Import PowerPoint

 

 

 

More FlipCharts to Get you Started

 

 

 

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