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= Session A = NB-AEAS6-C2FPP-26XTY-AWCSM **Equipment set up**: Your projector is wired through the document camera but the camera does not have to be turned on. If the red light is on, that is enough.There is current going through the camera. You can turn off and on the lamp with the document camera depending on the amount of ambient light in your room and depending on the amount of glare on whatever you are projecting. You can flip the image so that you can see to write and the students can see it in the correct orientation. **Document Camera**: To capture a photo with the document camera, open the SEE II software, click on real time. Arrange your items that you want to capture. It will not take and 8.5 by 11 size photo. Click on **Photo Capture** and save to an appropriate place. If you want to capture something that is text, use the scanner in the lab or on one of the MFP printers. You can use source select or turn off the document camera to toggle back to the projector image. If you have had your laptop at home, and the image is not projecting, you may need to use Function F4 (three times) to get the image to show up. If the image doesn't fit the Smart Board screen, make sure that your display settings are set for 1024 by 768. **Projector**: The remote for the projector has lots of options for you. Depending on what you want to display, you may want to make some changes. For example, if you click the **Color** button, you will get a menu of choices. If you are showing a DVD, Safari montage, photos you took with your digital camera or flip video, you may want a different color set up than you would for your normal teaching with Smart Notebook, Likewise, the **Aspect** button allows you to change the size and proportion of the image. Generally, you should use **NORMAL**, but for a movie or other software, you may want a different size image. **Volume** can be changed on the remote. (When you show a movie, remember there are three places to change the volume! There is the volume on the systray on the bottom right of the monitor, there is a volume choice in VLC or Windows Media Player, there is a volume choice in YouTube and Safari Montage, and there is the volume on the Projector remote.) Most folks have used the **A/V Mute** button. It allows you to remove the distraction of the screen while you are talking to your students. On the other hand, you have to **//remember to turn off the projector later on//**. I think this is a personal choice. Some folks prefer to turn the projector on and off so they don't have to remember if it is muted or not. The **Freeze** button allows you the keep the screen projecting whatever you were just teaching and then use your laptop in other ways. For example, if you have morning instructions to the class on the Smart Board and you want to leave that showing so students can follow them, you press freeze and then you can record attendance and lunch counts in Skyward. Some folks have to orient their board often, some never do. I believe the difference is training the students. Smaller students especially may put their hand on the screen while writing. Sometimes furniture gets pushed up to the Smart Board. Anything touching the board other that the pen will pull the board out of kilter. Most folks have used the Smart Notebook as a "sheet of paper" on which to write. If you are writing just letters, numbers, a few words (as in primary grades) a blank sheet of paper or the large ruled paper with dashed middle lines is probably fine. If you need to show more information, there are a couple of ways to do that. 1. Pull up the college ruled paper. Write words with one of the pens as your class brainstorms. 2. Type your instructions or information with the laptop keyboard. This is great for instructions on what to do as you come into class. 3.Open a document that you have already made in another program. You don't need Smart Notebook to be open. Click on File/Print. Choose Smart Notebook **Print Capture**. Smart Notebook will open with the page displayed. You can annotate the page as desired. Save to My Content with or without notes. 4. Scan a document from your math workbook or other source and insert it into Smart Notebook as a jpeg. (Insert picture file) 5. Copy and paste a lesson from a web page right onto a blank page of the notebook. The tool bar is customizable, meaning if you right click on the tool bar you can change the buttons shown there by dragging and dropping. For example, the document camera tool is really only for the Smart brand of document camera, it won't work with the Lumen's ones. So I dragged it off and added a different tool. ==== Page forward to the next slide, page backward to the previous slide, new slide, look in folder, save slide, paste, undo, redo and delete are all pretty self explanatory. When I removed the Smart Doc Camera, the tool I wanted to add was wipe page clean. That way I could remove everything I had just done. Screen shade allows you to hide information until you are ready for students to see it. Full screen view allows you to get rid of that side bar that takes up so much space. **Auto-Hide** is also a way to get rid of the side bar, but still allows you ready access to saving, editing, printing,etc. The dual screen was one I didn't think of a lot of uses for right away.You cannot write on both sides at the same time. However you can model an idea for students on the screen, then hit dual screen and then do the specific task that you just modeled (like mind mapping). You can use the push pin tool to pin a jpeg to one screen and then have the vocabulary relating to the picture on the other. **Screen Capture** allows you to bring other documents or web pages into your notebook file. There are several choices of how much you can capture, area, window, full screen, or freehand tool. The **Recorder** tool allows you to record what you are doing on the smart board. Perhaps you went through all the steps of regrouping. You can capture that explanation and replay it. The cursor and pens work the way you would expect. If you make a circle with the magic pen tool, you create a spotlight. If you make a square with the magic pen tool, it magnifies the area you drew around. If you make a different shape, it fades away. If you make a circle with the eraser and tap on the inside of the circle, everything era ses.==== Now things begin to get a bit more complicated. You need to be able to manage your files well if you want to enjoy using your Smart Board effectively. (Linda has good advice about this.) The gallery is huge and there is a lot of stuff I cannot imagine anyone ever using in it. However, there are little nuggets of gold if you look for them. There is a search area to look up tools and templates. The ruled pages, clock, 100's chart, etc can be really useful. There are a couple of ways to save these things. When it comes to ruled pages, I really love to have a blank ruled page on my desktop ready to open at any time. Other types of pages can be stored in My Content by right clicking on the page in the gallery and then choosing Save to My Content. There is also a Save to Collection choice which I save to a folder on my desktop. It is handy to have a page with a pale color or thematic background (look in the gallery) with your morning message on it. When students enter your room they can read instructions and save you repeating them over and over again. You can edit the instructions daily if you like. It is handy to have a page of lined paper on the desktop ready for making lists and notes from brainstorming sessions. You can save them or not, but always save it as a blank sheet of lined paper as well. If you keep updating the My Content on this page, it will have the items you want in the folder, ready to go.
 * Update your Smart Software: **
 * Orientation **
 * Smart Notebook **
 * The Tool Bar **
 * The Gallery **
 * Handy Pages **

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List of tools:



[|Other Smart Tools Tutorial]

This tutorial details how to use some special tools included on the Smart Board.



**Pointer:** This adds a large arrow to the screen to draw attention to a specific item.
====**Transparent Page:** This very cool feature allows you to put something on your screen, open a notebook file, click the transparent screen button, and see through to whatever you put up. Combine this with the spotlight to focus attention on a specific piece of information on whatever you are showing.====

[|Screen Capture Tutorial]
====**Recorder:** Here is a 6 minute tutorial that shows how to record a lesson you have done on the Smart Board as you are doing it. This is great for repeating the lesson while you can be with students to be sure they understand what they are seeing. You can be the instructor and the coach all at the same time! This can also be posted on your website for students and parents to share and discuss at home. It could be very helpful to inform parents about the tools and/or steps you use in class for particular lessons.====

[|Recorder Tutorial]
====**Overall organization:** As you begin to find more uses for your Smart Board and its software, you will want to give some thought to how you will organize the notebook files you use/create. One thing to keep in mind is to put like things on different pages within the same notebook file. It is easier to find them and use them in the same or following lesson. For example, you could organize your files by the week in which you usually teach the lesson(s). Or you could organize by theme, topic or even by the month. It is important to figure out an organization strategy before you get too far into this. Moving pages from file to file is not impossible, but it is less convenient than organizing well in the first place.====