Promethean Board Fundamentals

Activboard Foundation Skills

Instructional Technology ConsultantCesar 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.

The teacher is the critical component to student learning.

21st Skills of a Participatory Society

Jenkins, 2006

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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 applicationsTOPIC 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

Moving on: Questions?