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Agenda:
Introductions & Warm up  (Emily's Introduction)
Independent Group Practice with Pre-Made Flipcharts
searching and downloading flipcharts
downloading and importing resource packs
Plan your flipchart
Build your flipchart combining your own creation from pages you find online
Explore other interactive websites
Create template pages to add to your Resource Gallery (popcycle sticks w/student names, things from the Gadgets and Flash flipchart, etc.)


How will you structure your lessons so that students are using the board?

When is it a good use of time to use the ActivExpressions?

What makes a good flipchart?




(recommended)
  • Using basic tools--pen, select tool, text tool, highlighter, eraser, clear
  • Undo, Re-do, Erase
  • Highlight text
  • Shape tool - change fill and line color
  • Spell Check
  • Add Rubber Stamp to toolbar
  • Using Resource Library: 
    • adding backgrounds and images to flipchart pages
  • Hidden text with reveal box
  • Hidden Text reveal with paint bucket
  • Technique:  Reveal
Handbook  from Nyack Schools
Independent group work

  • Layering, Grouping, Locking
  • Browsers (Page, Resource, Object, Notes, Property, Action, Voting)
  • Erasing with Magic Ink
  • Building flipcharts with resources (backgrounds and images) and tools (pen, text, highlighter)
  • Using Resources from library: backgrounds, images, templates, grids, sounds
  • Customizing toolbar and profile settings
  • Using text edit: change font, color, size
  • Connector Tool
  • More Tools Menu: Clock, Calculator, Dice
  • Math Tools Menu: Ruler, Protractor, Compass
  • An Overview and Review of Toolbars and Browsers

 

Cool Flipcharts




  • Magic Ink
  • Groups and Pulleys
  • Pop-up Captions
  • Hiding Text with the Action Browser
  • Drag & Drop Action Tools
  • Drag a Copy
  • Containers


Other Flipcharts
 
Other Things you Saw

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
Games:  Magic Pen, Launchball (from www.sciencemuseum.org.uk), Linerider
My Diigo bookmarks:  Simulations, Interactives

 

Resources for Learning On Your Own:

  1. Help Menu in ActivInspire
  2. Promethean Planet
  3. iTunes Video Podcasts
    1. Promethean Planet - ActivTips
    2. 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)



IB PYB Themes:
  • Who we are
  • Where we are in place and time
  • How we express ourselves
  • How the world works
  • How we organize ourselves
  • Sharing the planet

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