1. Promethean Board Fundamentals Activboard Foundation Skills Instructional Technology Consultant Cesar Navarrete ccn@austin.utexas.edu

2. Did you ever feel like this?

3. Technology in our times Technology will continue to change… rapidly. Teachers will learn to use new tools. The teacher is the critical component to student learning.

4. 21 st Skills of a Participatory Society Jenkins, 2006

5. Fundamental Training—It’s free! http://www.prometheanlearning.com/us/index.php http://www.wikispaces.com/ http://rrisd-flipcharts.wikispaces.com/

6. The Basics TOPIC 1 FLIPCHART BASICS Create a flipchart page and incorporate different media forms: sound, video, animations, interactive activities and web links Launching Activstudio Pen tool Undo and Redo tool Marquee Select tool Clear tool, Eraser tool and Trashcan Highlighter tool Saving the flipchart

7. Organization TOPIC 2ORGANIZATION/DESIGN MODE Use the Design Mode and techniques that useful for multi-page flipcharts Opening a previously saved flipchart Design Modes and Presentation Mode Moving and organizing toolboxes and toolbars Page selector button and Next and Previous Page button Selecting and manipulating objects Duplicating pages Saving a flipchart in Design Mode

8. Text TOPIC 3 WORKING WITH TEXT Create text and manipulate it for flexible lessons, which can be used repeatedly and refined over time Pen tool to create a page heading Text tool Text Edit toolbox Copying text styles Editing text Floating Keyboard tool Recognition tool

9. Resources TOPIC 4 RESOURCE LIBRARY Access various shared resources from the library and add your own resources to the library Shared Resources Library Rubber Stamp to add images to the page Grow Objects to add images to the page Shared Backgrounds Shared flipcharts pages My resource Library

10. Drawing tools TOPIC 5 DRAWING TOOLS Draw lines and shapes to create interactive graphs Grids Pen Modifier Fill tool Customizing the Main toolbox Color Picker tool

11. Images TOPIC 6 IMAGES Integrate Internet images and manipulate them for more engaging flipchart pages Stacking images Layers Increase and Decrease Object Size button Aligning images Changing an objects translucency

12. Numbers a.k.a. Math tools TOPIC 7 NUMBERS Use several math tools for creating flipchart and teaching Ruler tool Protractor tool Compass tool XY Origin tool Dice tool Floating calculator Fraction Creator toolbox

13. Integrating other applications TOPIC 8 INTEGRATING OTHER APPLICATIONS Work directly with other applications Annotate over Writing in other applications: Floating Keyboard and Recognition tool Activmarker with Microsoft Office

14. Finishing flipchart modules TOPIC 9 FINISHING FLIPCHARTS Organize pages and add links to video; sound files; Word or Exel documents; print pages for student work and add notes to the flipchart Insert flipchart pages Page Organizer Create a web link Printing flipcharts Page Notes tool

15. Special interactive tools Topic 10 SPECIAL INTERACTIVE TOOLS Create more interesting and interactive pages to give focus and pace to lessons Gesture tool Page turn effect Reveal tool Eraser tool Spotlight tool Tickertapes Clock tool Notes and Pointer tools

16. Moving on: Questions?