Using the Smart board - Teresa Murphy – PD session

26 November 2013

The Smart Board Interface – Can you remember the tools? (Please refer to your notes …)

A) Gallery Essentrials

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Click on the picture frame image You will get another menu

Click on the Interactive and multimedia bar Various icons will appear – either double click or drag and drop the one

you want onto the flip chat.They are in alphabetical order, but you can also type what you want in the search bar on topTHE DICE

Use this when you want to play a game and there is no dice available. Drag the dice onto the flip chart, you can put on more than one Either click or touch the dice on the board and they will spin

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THE TIMER

Scroll down to ‘T’ icons Double click or drag the timer onto the flip chart Set the timer for a given exercise For example: write down all the words you can think of related

to the word WORK

B) Lesson Activity Toolkit – GAMES

1) VORTEX

Click on PICTURE FRAME icon Click on LESSON ACTIVITY TOOLKIT Then click on INTERACTIVE AND MULTIMEDIA bar. You will find a number of templates for interactive games.

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For example: VORTEX(Note there are a number of different colours for each game, just choose the one you like best)

Be sure you click the full screen icon so you can work easily|

Click the EDIT button

Write the TWO categories you want to recycle in boxes labled VORTEX LABEL 1 and VORTEX LABEL 2

Click ROTATE VORTICES (See below) Then click ON OK

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You will get the following screen

Students move the correct box into the correct vortex. Click RESET if you want to do it again.

WORD GUESS

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Click on Edit and you will get the following screen

Notice you have SOCCER on top. Click on the arrow and you will also get BASKETBALL and TOMATO

SPLAT We are going to look at SOCCER Put in vocabulary you want to recycle and a clue Click OK

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Click on CLUE – read the clue

Click on a letter If it’s correct it will

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(If not you will get the same screen with MISS on it)

NOTE:

This is just the tip of the iceberg, there are a lot more fun games and tools, play around and try them out! You can also go to the SMART technology website: http://exchange.smarttech.com/#tab Here you will find ready-made lesson plans using the SMART Board in all areas! Have fun!

You can also get some ready-made games on eslgamesplus.com (Thanks Lena!)

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