Getting started with smart notebook and next steps

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Getting started with

Gallery and objectsMedia and Web Links

Next Steps:Lesson Activity ToolkitLayers and more strategies

SCS Mid-Term PD Day - Friday, Nov. 9, 2012Get this notebook file at: http://tinyurl.com/scssmart01

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See and sort your pages

Use the Page Sorter tab to jump to a page byselecting its thumbnail, or reorganize your pages

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Pick up a pen and write

Right-click

On-screen keyboardPress the Keyboard button to launch theon-screen keyboard.

the Right-Click

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MoveResize and rotate

Press the leaf and drag it tomove it around the page.

pressing the Select icon and putting down the pen.

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Edit textDouble-click the text box to edit text.

Resizing the text box

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Find content in the GalleryFind images, videos, sound files, interactive activities, backgrounds

add to your page.

The Gallery tab also contains templates to helpyou create your own activities. Engage yourstudents with interaction.

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Click the buttons to view the gestures.

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TM website

exchange.smarttech.com

in your web browser or click the

Search by subject and grade. See what other teachers are trying andloving. Download and modify lessons to suit your teaching style.

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Adaptive toolbarThe toolbar provides shortcuts to commonly-used actions, tools and properties.When you use the Select tool to select an object in the work area, its propertiesappear to the right of the tools group.

additionalproperties in the Propertiestab and in the object's drop-down menu.

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Activity Builder

Add-ons tab, and then click the ActivityBuilder thumbnail.

What do horses eat?Drag and drop foods over the horse to feed it.

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Browser

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Improved text

you select text.

1. Nested bullets2. Numbering with hanging indents3. Adjustable line spacing4. Font previews

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Sample SCS Student

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Colors seem to shake against each other

Colors clash and are Do not mix!

Do not mix!

Some combinations Do not mix!

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Mammals vs Reptiles

Reptiles

Example

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ySpend huge amounts of time on this where it isn't applicable/relevant.

p glesson look "perfect" or "pretty", the content and the activities are more important.

to do on each pageInclude multiple pages of just plain notes

Change white text to black whilst typing.Forget to change it back to

p yLock any text down unless it is essential for the activity to

applicable to the lesson notes section of the title page.Forget to add the teachers

flash, sounds and images.Put so much multimedia in the file that it become hugely bloated in size

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Use fonts that come with the templates. Use more than two different fonts and a font size below 24

any activities where appropriate.Forget to include instructions on how to complete any activities.

y p gneeded to create your contentTry to fit too much onto one

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