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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