SMART Board: Tips

The Smart Notebook Challenge #2 is now in the books. It was a fun little challenge that utilized one of the properties of tables to create the effect of magically displaying “secret information” on your SMARTBoard.

This week’s Smart Notebook Challenge is to produce a cool effect for revealing secret information. I have not used this technique in the classroom yet but I’m sure it’ll be a big hit with the students as well as add a little excitement when you need to reveal some simple information to the class using your SMART Board interactive whiteboard.

The first challenge used the Shrink and Grow animation to reveal a hidden answer to a question. Already, teachers are telling me that the kids seem to really love using this effect to reveal answers on the SMARTBoard.

Do you want to be know as “the expert SMART Board user” in your school? Here’s an advanced tip that allows you to turn your finger into a hovering mouse when using the Smartboard interactive whiteboard.

I love incorporating tables using the SMARTBoard interactive whiteboard. However, many teachers are still a little shy about using them in their Notebook lessons. Here are a few tips and tricks for using the new Table Object in Smart Notebook v.10 that might make your Notebook lessons a little bit more exciting.

Here’s a short tutorial that demonstrates how to use the Balloon Pop tool with your SMARTBoard interactive whiteboard.

This incredibly useful presentation was an idea conceived by Tom Barrett and it contains tips and tricks for using your Smartboard interactive whiteboard. The really cool thing about this presentation is that it was put together by educators from all around the world, including “yours truly.”

Here is a video tutorial on how to use layering inside Smart Notebook Version 10 (NBX) to reveal correct answers. This is a great activity to use on your SMART Board and it can be modified in a myriad of ways to improve learning in the classroom. For example, this technique could easily be extended or modified to become a powerful lesson on sorting information.

With the new version of Notebook, users can now easily align objects on the page. I produced a short video tutorial that demonstrates how the new alignment feature works in Smart Notebook Version 10.

Here is a short video tutorial on how to make basic customizations to the Tab Bar and the Tool Bar in Smart Notebook Version 10.