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Promethean Board Fundamentals. Activboard Foundation Skills Instructional Technology Consultant Cesar Navarrete ccn@austin.utexas.edu. Did you ever feel like this?. Technology in our times. Technology will continue to change… rapidly. Teachers will learn to use new tools.
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Promethean Board Fundamentals Activboard Foundation Skills Instructional Technology Consultant Cesar Navarrete ccn@austin.utexas.edu
Technology in our times Technology will continue to change… rapidly. Teachers will learn to use new tools. The teacher is the critical component to student learning.
21st Skills of a Participatory Society Jenkins, 2006
Fundamental Training—It’s free! • http://www.prometheanlearning.com/us/index.php • http://www.wikispaces.com/ • http://rrisd-flipcharts.wikispaces.com/
The Basics • TOPIC 1 FLIPCHART BASICS • Create a flipchart page and incorporate different media forms: sound, video, animations, interactive activities and web links • Launching Activstudio • Pen tool • Undo and Redo tool • Marquee Select tool • Clear tool, Eraser tool and Trashcan • Highlighter tool • Saving the flipchart
Organization • TOPIC 2 ORGANIZATION/DESIGN MODE • Use the Design Mode and techniques that useful for multi-page flipcharts • Opening a previously saved flipchart • Design Modes and Presentation Mode • Moving and organizing toolboxes and toolbars • Page selector button and Next and Previous Page button • Selecting and manipulating objects • Duplicating pages • Saving a flipchart in Design Mode
Text • TOPIC 3 WORKING WITH TEXT • Create text and manipulate it for flexible lessons, which can be used repeatedly and refined over time • Pen tool to create a page heading • Text tool • Text Edit toolbox • Copying text styles • Editing text • Floating Keyboard tool • Recognition tool
Resources • TOPIC 4 RESOURCE LIBRARY • Access various shared resources from the library and add your own resources to the library • Shared Resources Library • Rubber Stamp to add images to the page • Grow Objects to add images to the page • Shared Backgrounds • Shared flipcharts pages • My resource Library
Drawing tools • TOPIC 5 DRAWING TOOLS • Draw lines and shapes to create interactive graphs • Grids • Pen Modifier • Fill tool • Customizing the Main toolbox • Color Picker tool
Images • TOPIC 6 IMAGES • Integrate Internet images and manipulate them for more engaging flipchart pages • Stacking images • Layers • Increase and Decrease Object Size button • Aligning images • Changing an objects translucency
Numbers a.k.a. Math tools • TOPIC 7 NUMBERS • Use several math tools for creating flipchart and teaching • Ruler tool • Protractor tool • Compass tool • XY Origin tool • Dice tool • Floating calculator • Fraction Creator toolbox
Integrating other applications • TOPIC 8 INTEGRATING OTHER APPLICATIONS • Work directly with other applications • Annotate over • Writing in other applications: Floating Keyboard and Recognition tool • Activmarker with Microsoft Office
Finishing flipchart modules • TOPIC 9 FINISHING FLIPCHARTS • Organize pages and add links to video; sound files; Word or Exel documents; print pages for student work and add notes to the flipchart • Insert flipchart pages • Page Organizer • Create a web link • Printing flipcharts • Page Notes tool
Special interactive tools • Topic 10 SPECIAL INTERACTIVE TOOLS • Create more interesting and interactive pages to give focus and pace to lessons • Gesture tool • Page turn effect • Reveal tool • Eraser tool • Spotlight tool • Tickertapes • Clock tool • Notes and Pointer tools