Multimedia Strategy Cooke Center Educational Challenge Robin Wilensky, Vickie Barone, Liz Kiernan

Multimedia Strategy Introduction to SMART Board & SMART Notebook Alternative Room Designs Identify Search Criteria SMART Notebook Resources Internet Resources Resources You Create A Values / Life Skills Curriculum

Introduction to SMART Board & SMART Notebook Getting Started Exploring Tools Exploring Features Exploring Gallery If you have a SMART Board…

Using Smart Notebook Getting Started o Start from the beginning by opening the program and clicking: FILE and NEW o Anytime you want to add a page to your project, click picture of paper with a green plus o To save your project, FILE and SAVE AS

Using Smart Notebook Exploring Tools o The Pen allows you to draw using different color lines, dotted lines, and highlighting liner o The Magic Pen allows you to draw a line that will fade over time o The Creative Pens allow you to draw with fun lines, including smiles, rainbow colors, flowers, etc. o Erasers allow you to erase things using different thicknesses o Line and Shape features let you make straight lines and different shapes o Shape Recognition Pen lets you draw a shape, and will convert it to a shape with straight lines. o Fill lets you color in an object with a color with one click o Add text using the Text feature

Using Smart Notebook Exploring Features o Adding objects: Click INSERT and you can put a picture, sound or video onto your notebook page. You can also drag items onto the page o Moving objects: Click on the picture of the mouse pointer, hold the mouse on an object and move. o Editing objects: Click the white circle on the object to resize and the green circle to rotate

Using Smart Notebook Exploring Gallery o Gallery is a collection of items you can insert into your project, from a variety of subjects. They include sounds, videos, pictures and activities. o To explore Gallery: Click VIEW and GALLERY o Gallery Sampler is organized by subject o To insert in your project: Drag onto the notebook page

Using Smart Notebook If you have a smart board: o Visit the following site for step by step instructions for setting up your board w/ visuals:

Alternative Room Designs Low-cost Interactive Whiteboard ▫Wii Interactive Whiteboard - (and associated Forums: whiteboard/) whiteboard/ ▫Wii Remote for Wii Interactive Whiteboard - nintendo/dp/B000IMWK2G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid = &sr=8-1-catcorr nintendo/dp/B000IMWK2G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid = &sr=8-1-catcorr ▫Wii Interactive Whiteboard Pens & Accessories - & Wiimote IW Pens IW Pens ▫SmoothBoard software - Projector Mounts ▫ NLjv54CFUlo5Qod_DyCoghttp:// NLjv54CFUlo5Qod_DyCog ▫ ceiling-mounts-for-projectors.html

Identifying Search Criteria Grade level Subject matter/ Content Goals Media type Search for copyright free music, images, videos, etc...

SMART Notebook Resources SMART Gallery ▫Pictures & Clip Art ▫Videos (Interactive & Multimedia) ▫Notebook files See SMART Notebook file – Resources.notebook

Internet Resources Video Audio only Visual only (Slideshows, Images, etc…) See SMART Notebook file – Resources.notebook

Resources You Create Teacher-directed Student-directed See SMART Notebook file – Resources.notebook

A Values / Life Skills Curriculum Values – Gratitude, Responsibility, Creativity, Confidence & more Life Skills – e.g. Sexual Education for Special Needs students See SMART Notebook file – Values.notebook