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Introduction to ActiveBoard
CCHS
Professional Development Day
March 15, 2007
How I use the ActiveBoard
How to create "FlipCharts"
 Using the FlipChart in the classroom
Create your own FlipChart
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Overhead projector ...
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Overhead projector ...
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Slide projector ...
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Imbed audio ...
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Photograph of Website ...
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ActiveBoard used as a whiteboard
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Questions prepared in advance
What is CHRISTENDOM ?
Start here on 10/17/06
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Review -- Using "Shade"
In what ways does the English gov improve
between 1066 and 1307?
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Organization ...
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Monday, November 6, 2006
HW due Today: #4
HW Tomorrow: No HW
HW due Wednesday: #5
HW due Thursday: No HW
Agenda
Review: Bayeux Tapestry
Review: Favorite image
What is it saying about war?
Medieval art?
Similar pieces of art?
Organization ...
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"Notes" -- Esther covered my
class.
What do we learn about the Chinese from the "Foolish
Old Man" fable?
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 Creating a Flipchart
Using the Flipchart in the classroom
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How to get started ...
Open Software
(Promethean)
FlipChart
ToolStrip
You should see
 Promethean "Watermark"
 Two tool bars 
Main ToolBox
Bottom Menu Bar
Current
magnification
Current
and total
pages
Zoom in
Open/close
Page Notes
Help
Zoom out
Enable/
Disable
Actions
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Go to
File
Select "New"
Then
"Screen Size"
(and then )
Save/Name
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Pointer
Pencil
Clear Annotations
Text Tool
Fill Tool
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The Pen Modifier Toolbox
FUN!
Control Click on the Pen
OR ... use the Barrel Button on
the Pen
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Show/Hide
Menu
Menu Button
Flipchart button
Annotate Over
Desktop
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Create text ...
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Pull images from the Web?
Fill Tool
Camera Tool
PAGE NOTES
To display the Page Notes window, click on the Page Notes button
located on the left side of the bottom bar of the flipchart .
Some tips of managing/using the Page Notes Feature:
To change the size of the window for optimum viewing, click and drag the bottom right-hand corner of the window until it is the correct
size.
To move the window, click on the title bar and drag the window to a new position on the screen.
Click on the Text button to display the Text Palette.
Whilst you are editing, you can highlight the text and ctrl-click to reveal a popup menu.
This menu allows you to perform common text editing functions such as cut, copy, paste, clear, select all and undo/redo.
This can be used to copy or paste text to and from the Clipboard, external application programs or text objects.
A second way to paste text from the Page Notes onto the Flipchart page:
Highlight the text you want to paste to the Flipchart,
then click the Add to Flipchart page button,
which appears automatically when any text is highlighted.
Using Page Notes to Reveal Answers
You show the answers by revealing the page notes.
You can also drag & drop the answers.
2 + 3 = ____
2 + 4 = ____
2 + 5 = ____
Answer
You can also drag text from the page to
the page notes...double click and drag it
by the hand.
Resource Library
Resource
Library
The resource library includes thousands of
objects, organized by resource type.
These include:
Images
Backgrounds
Sounds
Videos
Grids
You can use the "shared" library, or use a
subset of it to create your own library.
Resource Library
Other Locations
Shared Library
My Library
Menu
Hide Resource Tree
Search
Icon View
List View
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Using the ActiveBoard in Classroom
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Calibration Tool
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Page Forward
Page Back
Page Selector
Page Organizer
Page Reset
Resource Library
PRINTING
A few features to remember:
Although printing a Power Point presentation is
gives a nicer copy for student notetaking, you
can get similar quality....
-Before printing, go to page set up and choose
landscape
-From the print menu, go to the Copies & Pages
drop down menu to get to the Layout
option.....select 2,4,6 pages per sheet.
click here to get
a drop down menu
PRINTING
The drop down menu also includes Activstudio Settings.....
you can include page notes when you print or even print just the page notes.
EMBEDDING FILES
phosphorus.MOV
NOTES
As a whiteboard (AND saves your notes)
 As an Overhead Projector
 As a substitute for a slide projector
o Unfortunately image quality is an issue, but … projectors … will
be replaced
 Convert “old” PowerPoint presentations (I have very few) (Cricket’s
area)
 As a mechanism for showing VCR/DVD (no TV needed)
 As my “planner” (although I am still duplicating my lesson plans)
o Cricket no longer keeps a formal lesson plan book
 Sometimes I take attendance on the board – write names on Title
page (who was absent, who was late) (save)
 Awesome … for use during Review Sessions … do you remember
when we discussed X (bring back the actual page w/ the class notes
from that day)
 Excellent source of “notes”
o Drop off in the 2 tutor centers every Friday
o I have ALL of the notes that were put on the board first semester
 Saves me an enormous amount of time at the end of the day 
o I know exactly where I left off at the end of every class
 Helpful when preparing a test … did we discuss “x” in such in such
a class 
o you can go back and check, because you have the notes
 I don’t typically do this … but if a student is out sick, I can give out
the notes
 Easy to copy  use the same Flipchart for my “other” WCC classes
 Easy to share with other members of the department (and then
build)
o Andrei
o Science
o Social Studies has not done much of this yet, but that is one of the
goals for this summer

 Textbooks  nearly all (?) are on CD-Rom: Easy to access to
pages/pics
 Allows you to use the Web in class,
o Write on the pages, save the pages w/ the writing
 Allows you to stop a movie midstream
o Write on the scene, save the scene w/the writing
 Music, Links to Websites, Quicktime movies (and others)
o Imbed into your presentation …
o Easy, seamless access
 ActiveSlate: Science
 Most exciting feature … unfortunately, I have not implemented yet:
ActiveVote
 Family -- you you can expect
that your ancestors will continue
the work you began
 Family -- has determined your
future
 Ancestors are important!
 Respect for parents
 Sense of independence
 Definitely inward looking
 Not looking for outside help
 Looking inward to solve
problems (family, future family
members)
 Sense of - we can accomplish
anything
 Perseverance
 Start a job -- it will be
accomplished
 Small steps -- large results
 Control over nature?
 Time is cyclical ... not linear?
Create your own FlipChart …
Your assignment is to create a 5-paged Flipchart!
When creating your “first” Flipchart, please demonstrate the
following skills …
 Open the software
 Name and then save the Flipchart
 Create a Title Page
o Use the “Text” (“T”) box to create a title

Choose a font, a font size, a font color

Give the Title Page a background color

Put your name on the Title Page in a color other than the
color that you use for the title
 Page 2 – Go to the Web and find a copy of the March
Madness Bracket
o
Copy the Bracket onto Page 2
o
“Free” “write” (this will be sloppy) the names of the
Final Four teams using the pencil tool
o
“Free” write the names of the two teams that you think
will make it to the final game (in a different color …)
o
Draw a “perfect” circle (or square) using the Pencil Tool
around the name of the team that you think will win
o
Draw a straight line using the Pencil Tool through the
name of the team that you think will lose
 Page 3 – Go to the Web and find a picture of the person you
think will be the Democratic Presidential nominee
o
Take a “photo” of this person using the camera tool
o
Insert the photo on page 3
o
Add color to the background
o
Add a caption
 Practice inserting a “new” page between page 2 and 3
o
Type any discussion question on this page …
o
Add some “notes” (potential answers to your question)
using the note feature
 Page 5 – Go to the Web and find a picture of ______
o
Add the picture to your FlipChart
 Look for the Calibration Tool!
This feature allows you to include additional
information for a particular Flipchart page.
The type of information can include:
*Set of instructions for an activity.
*List of useful keywords or prompts.
*Presentation outline, summary, or lesson plan.
*Answers to a problem set or series of questions
*Supporting notes for the Flipchart page with
instructions on what to do with the page. This is
particularly useful if you share work with other
colleagues.
*Information gathered from student feedback or
student assessments
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Click on the page notes button below
to reveal the page notes window and to read some reasons why you
might
use this feature of ACTIVstudio
Four Ways to Embed Video files (quicktime or SWF)
From the Main Menu Bar: Page, Insert, Link Object....
1. Text....gives a simple, underlined, text link.
2. Image Icon....gives a small picture of the type of file linked.
3. Action Object....gives you a red box that you can place over a
picture, words or could stand by itself....can make the box
invisible.
4. Placeholder....gives an image from the video clip as a link to
the video....can choose anywhere in the clip....image is blurry
until you play it.