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| Template 63 |
Some features of ActivInspire to inspire you…
Did you know that there are templates which will allow you to set up an interactive bar graph instantly...students can take a survey and enter results at a click of the pen? These are found in the Resource Browser in the Activities and Templates or go to Insert/Page. Add title, change colors, fill in the axes...and you are ready to go! The one to the left is 63 of 64.
Did you know that there are templates which will allow you to set up an interactive bar graph instantly...students can take a survey and enter results at a click of the pen? These are found in the Resource Browser in the Activities and Templates or go to Insert/Page. Add title, change colors, fill in the axes...and you are ready to go! The one to the left is 63 of 64.
Along with this are many others: an interactive scoreboard, a KWL setup (or 4 columns), alphabet spaces ready for words, 3 different “How do you feel” charts, and many, many more. The ActivTip 08 gives an overview of these. (Search for ActivTip 08 above the video box.)There is an additional section which is reserved for LRS (learner response systems) questioning.
While the Templates are left to your own designing skills there are also Activities which are made to be used immediately and come with Notes about the activity which was planned. You find those in the Notes Browser or on some pages there is a Sticky Note button added with an action on the page showing that there are notes. You can add standards or other things to these notes.
The list at the right gives the folders of Activities found as a default on ActivInspire. Some have more choices than others. For example calendars are generic for yearly, monthly and weekly.
These are only the pages supplied by the software. Promethean Planet also supplies pages that are prepared by other teachers. I would suggest starting with a broad search and then narrowing. There may not be standard connections since this is an international company, but the concept you are teaching will probably show up. Many of these also have notes.
One tip is that you can extend any page you wish by going to View/Page Extender (near the bottom) Allows taller, scrollable pages.
Enjoy!
I learned most of this watching Janice Pranstatter's Channel on YouTube. She is a UKI employee of Promethean who produces, along with Samantha Clewes, webinars on best practice and tools featuring real classroom experts.
*Photos produced with the camera tool.
