Activboard Staff Meeting

We're in to our second Activboard Staff meeting for the year this afternoon.  This year we have booked two sessions with ActivboardNZ trainers.  Today's session was a science based theme with ideas around dual pens, containers and other science activities.

Ideas from the session:

• Who's the winner 
• game based on pulling objects up to make the one in the middle
• using dual pens so both students can compete

• Ideas from staff
• Connect 4
• Speed Tests
• Pictionary or drawing competitions

• Using templates already built in to Activinspire to have Flipcharts setup already
• Embed HTML
• Only available on websites that have embed code available 

• Using Promethean Planet
• Searching using search term and then sorting by most downloaded or most recent to get more useful flipcharts
• Searching planet before creating Flipcharts

• Science Learning Hub
• Use for science resources 
• Great images and videos 
• created for NZ curriculum

• Using labels
• Use to introduce what parts of objects are called
• Labels show when children hover over part of an object

• Pictorial stories 
• Labels can be used to change pictures into words

• Use labels to test/practice
• Labels can be used to self check words/parts they have dragged into the place they think is correct 

• How to add labels
• Can only be added to individual items
• Can use rectangles on top of parts of pictures and make them invisible

• View property browser once you are clicked on the object 
• Scroll down to label
• Change/add to suit your needs
• Where it says behaviour - change to tool tip

• Creating Containers
• Two types of containers - specific object and keywords
• Make containers large!
• Add objects you want to put into containers
• Select container and then property browser
• Add keywords by pressing browse button 
• use one letter rather than whole word
• use page reset rather than dragging back to prevent issues with return if not contained

• Ideas to self check
• Locking pictures
• Magic Ink
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