tutorial - designing vwb lessons by kd

8/14/2019 Tutorial - Designing VWB Lessons by KD

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Intelliboard 1.3 Guide to Creating LessonsThere is more to your virtual whiteboard than being a great large screen for using your ELMOVisual Presenter and for displaying the monitor of your computer screen. You can utilize thefunctions of your whiteboard to enhance the lessons that you are presenting in your classroom.bypreparing interactive activities for your students. These not only promote the use of technology inyour classroom, but provide your students the opportunity to become active participants in thelesson! So lets get started

Ways to open your Virtual Whiteboard from your computer.

1st wayIf you have used your VWB recently, it may be available in your start menu.

2nd way:Click on the Numonics icon in your systems tray (by the clock). If you are connected to yourprojector, the icon will be green. If you have disconnected from your projector, the icon will be red.

3rd way:Click on Start --All Programs, find Intelliboard, and then select Virtual Whiteboard Start from theexposed menu.

Karen Dailey Technology Integration Specialist Cabell County Schools November 2007Adapted from Sara Barracloughs VWB training


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Intelliboard 1.3 Guide to Creating LessonsPrompt for Save

Now that you have opened your VWB program, it is time to start designing your dynamic,interactive lessons! The following are a series of functions that you may wish to utilize in creatingyour session. You may not need to access all of the functions described, but you may wish to keep

this handout as a reference.

Before you begin, you will want to make sure that your settings require a prompt before saving.Otherwise, each time you use the lesson in your classroom, all of the changes that the studentshave made will remain on your slides! You dont want that to happen! As you continue to createyour lesson, you can save the changes that you have made by clicking Yes when prompted uponexit.

First, click on the Format option to reveal Options. Click to open this window.

Once the Options window is displayed, you need to set the default to Prompt for Save. Click toselect

1) Prompt for Save, and 2) Set as Default.

This is also where you can change the background of yourworkspace to open with lines, grids, etc. If you wish to set anyof these as your default, you simply choose Set as Default.For example, if you wish to always open your workspace withruled lines, you can set this as your default!

From here, you may also set the Print options.Simply click on the Print tab to expose these settings.Enable or disable background printing, choose the print quality,etc.



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Intelliboard 1.3 Guide to Creating LessonsToolbar Functions

As you run your mouse across the buttons in the VWB toolbar, they describe each function. Inorder to access the functions, you must click the button, checking to make sure that it appears tobe depressed. Notice that the pencil tool is depressed in the image shown here.

1. Open File2. Print (Automatic Print)3. Thumbnail Viewer4. Cut5. Copy6. Paste

Drawing Tools:

11. Straight Line12. Arrow (New for 1.3!)13. Rectangle14. Square15. Circle16. Triangle (New!)


18. Undo (Last Action)19. Redo (Last Action)20. Back to Previous Slide21. Forward One Slide

(Or New Slide)

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7. Select (Object)8. Resize9. Rotate

10. Select (Area)

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Intelliboard 1.3 Guide to Creating Lessons17. Add Text

22. Drawing Tool: Pencil23. Fill (?)24. Select Black (Ink)25. Select Red26. Select Green27. Select Blue

28. Select Other Color (From Color Window)29. Highlight30. Erase

Applying a Custom Background

If you would like to set up a custom background, you may do so by following the steps outlinedbelow.

1. Find the image that you would like to apply. Save this image under

C:\Program Files\Intelliboard\Backgrounds

2. In the VWB session:3. Choose Format from the main toolbar located at the top of the screen.4. Click to open Options and reveal the Session Properties window.5. Select the Backgrounds Folder drop down menu and scroll to selectyour saved background file.

If you wish to change the background back to the default on the nextslide, return to the Step 4 (Session Properties) and select Default from

the dropdown menu.


31. Change Pen Width (Slide Bar)32. Opens Playback Window33. Current Pen Color

Current Highlighter Color34. Sherston Clip Art Browser

35. Embed/ Hyperlink (New!)

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Intelliboard 1.3 Guide to Creating LessonsApplying Sherston Clip Art

To insert clip art from the Sherston Clip Art browser (34 from previous), click to open the browser.Once the Secondary Clip Art Browser window opens, click anywhere in the field to open thefolders.

1) Choose a category from the Main Menu

file.

2) Choose a category from the subject file.

3) Browse the options, using the arrow keys to reveal other pages within that category.

4) To copy the clip that you wish to place in your session, you typically have three choices. Someof the clips do not offer all three options.

Copy item to paste in color: Copy item to paste, text only:Copy item topaste in blackand white:

Once you havecopied yourimage, exit the

browser and return to your VWB session. Select Paste (6 from previous) from your VWB toolbar.Here, you can paste multiple copies, select and drag to another position, or resize (8 fromprevious) the image.



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Intelliboard 1.3 Guide to Creating LessonsUtilizing the Embed/ Hyperlink Function

Exploring the function tools above to create your interactive lesson is the best way to learn theIntelliboard 1.3 program. As you design your session, remember that you can create a Hyperlinkout to a site on the Internet. This site must be saved as a Favorites from your Explorer toolbar andthen transferred to a file on your hard drive. To do this, first visit the website that you wish to linkto:

Once you are there, click to open the dropdown menu from Favorites and then select Add toFavorites The website is then bookmarkedfor future access.

Exit the page and access your start menu to open My Documents.

Once you have opened My Documents, click to open the dropdown menu from Favorites, andclick to select the web link. Hold down the left mouse as you drag the link from Favorites to aspace in My Documents. Dont worry, Windows will automatically put the file into place.

Once you have your link stored on your hard drive, you can go back to your VWB to Embed orHyperlink the site. Simply click on the Embed/ Hyperlink button to open the windowdisplayed here. Click Hyperlink to choose the file from your Hard Drive. You can alsoaccess this function under the Insert option from the main toolbar at the top of your screen.

Select the file you wish to access, and then click Open.

Note that the file you have selected appears in the spacelabeled File name:



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Intelliboard 1.3 Guide to Creating LessonsAn icon will be placed in the upper right hand corner of the VWB toolbar. When you wish to accessthe link, simply click on the icon!

You can Embed other files in this manner, ie. Word Documents, PowerPoint Presentations, AdobeFiles, Links to Music or Video Files, etc.

*note: If you change the placement of the file on your hard drive, ie. put it in a different folder, you will need to Deletethe Linkand repeat the Embed/ Hyperlink action steps.

Also, if you wish to move the VWB file to a portable storage device, such as a USB flash drive, you will need to Deletethe Linkand repeat the Embed/ Hyperlink action steps.

If you wish to access the file from your flash drive, you can save the file there and create a link from the flash drive.Note also that the read from a USB flash drive must also remain constant, ie. E: drive or F: drive.

The path for accessing the link must remain constant, or you will need to repeat theEmbed/ Hyperlink action steps.
