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Promethean Board Fundamentals

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

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  1. Promethean Board Fundamentals Activboard Foundation Skills Instructional Technology Consultant Cesar Navarrete ccn@austin.utexas.edu

  2. Did you ever feel like this?

  3. 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.

  4. 21st Skills of a Participatory Society Jenkins, 2006

  5. Fundamental Training—It’s free! • http://www.prometheanlearning.com/us/index.php • http://www.wikispaces.com/ • http://rrisd-flipcharts.wikispaces.com/

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Moving on: Questions?

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