Interactive Board Basics

No matter what IWB software you use, some basics remain identical - both from the points of view of technology and methodology.

INDIVIDUALLY:

1. Install and explore Activ Inspire and Smart Notebook (if using your own harware), try the basic functions, get the feeling of both softwares. For installation, see the instructions below.
2. Follow the list of items below and practice these basic skills both in Activ and Smart.
3. Explore the site http://www.veskole.cz/, try to identify high-quality materials, and recognise the faulty ones.

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Installation:

1. Download the actual version of Activ Inspire form the Promethean site. Ask the teacher for the key.

(FORMAT-2000-0016-4129-0456-5336-4576-9999)

2. For SMART NOTEBOOK, use the installation files in iso format saved in capsa: Folder IWB Materials, file SW_interactiv.iso. Use the key presented there. Disable actualisation processes.

Both installations are fully legal.

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What can we use the Interactive Board Material for?

1. To identify the purpose of the material:
Intro – topic, aim, target group
Source – textbook
Credits

2. To identify the resources:
References – texts, audio, images resources (last page)
create your own images!

3. To suggest how to use the material:
– create a Teacher’s book (could be in side notes, or in the last page, or hidden within each page)
– instructions to tasks (focus on organization, variability)

4. To enable easy navigation: Insert links
In Activ Inspire - use commands "Another page" and "Open a website"
In Smart - right click at the object, use "Odkaz"

5. To use visual and auditory input: insert images, audio and video
In Active Inspire: go to Resource Browser (the symbol of 2 music notes)
In Smart: go to Gallery (the symbol of a picture)
In both: download an image, and drag it to the chosen page

6. To integrate games and animations into a lesson:
Explore the resourcepacks
Modify Flash animations (Smart)


Interactive Board Project basic items:
- a teacher's book specifying with the target group, objectives and instructions on the use of your material, and offering direct links to all tasks and back
- functional and effective visual support (images, graphics, illustrations)
- listening tasks (+ audio with tapescript)
- speaking tasks

- creative and cognitive tasks
- feedback to all tasks
- active URLs (with tasks)
- enough space for the students'work

skills:

to insert text, image, any other file (audio), link (within the file), active URL

You can find examples and instructional files online (try youtube), and also at http://prekladani.capsa.cz