Wednesday, May 6, 2015

SMART Board Videos

I reviewed two different videos on SMART Notebook that I think would be very useful in the classroom.

1. Gameboards for SMARTboards by aprissm

This video provided a step-by-step guide on how to create interactive game boards using SMART Notebook. After picking a background color, the game squares are chosen by clicking on the Gallery tab under Essentials for Educators. These game squares can be placed anywhere on the screen and hold the questions. If students want to check their answer, they simply have to click on the square. After all of the squares are put into place, a start and finish square can be made by finding the shapes section in the Gallery tab. All of these squares can be locked into place so that students cannot move them around by right clicking and finding where it says "lock into place." Tokens can also be made for students to move around the game board. Again, different shapes for making the tokens can be found in the shapes section of the Gallery tab. These tokens can be locked so that they can move but cannot be resized. Instead of clicking on "lock into place," "Allow Movement" needs to be clicked. There is also a section in the Gallery to place a die on the game board so that when students click on it, it gives them a random number of spaces they are supposed to move.


2. SMARTboard Recorder Tutorial  by Baynard Bailey

This is a very short simple video, but there was a lot of information in it. Bailey shows how to use SMARTboard Recorder. He starts out by explaining that there is a Record button, a Pause button, and a Stop button. The most helpful thing he explained was the different types of recordings that can be done. There is a Record Desktop option which records the whole SMARTboard screen or there is the option to Record Area which allows the user to create a box on the screen that is recorded. This is for when you want to hide some things on your screen and drag things into the box that you would like to be in the recording. One thing I found interesting was that in the Record Area option, as soon as the box is created, it is automatically recorded. Also, once the recording is stopped, immediately a preview pops up for the user to view.

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