Promethean Whiteboards

Tutorial on:

  • Making a Post Boxes Activity
  • Drawing filled shaped
  • Saving into your Image Library
  • Using items from your Image Library
  • Choosing different tiled backgrounds

You need to start this activity by saving the “post boxes” into your image library otherwise the words will end up hidden behind the picture. Here’s how;

  1. Load ACTIVstudio and choose SHOW FLIPCHART from the toolbox .
  2. Choose the colour and thickness of the outline for your box then select the RECTANGLE tool .
  3. Drag out the outline of your box. If you make a mistake, click UNDO
  4. To fill the shape, first select the ADD FILL POINT TOOL from the FLIPCHART TOOL STRIP.
  5. Now choose your colour as before, then click inside your rectangle.
  6. To make this into an object in your Image Library, first select the CAMERA/SNAPSHOT tool
  7. Choose AREA SNAPSHOT
  8. You should now see a SNAPSHOT BOUNDING BOX. This is part of the screen that will be captured. You may reposition this box by clicking inside it and dragging it to a new location. You may also resize the box by picking up the handles. Resize this so that is fits neatly around your rectangle.
  9. Choose to send the shape to your IMAGE LIBRARY
  10. Give the picture an appropriate name when you save it i.e. REDBOX.
  11. Use the CLEAR ANNOTATION tool to delete your original picture.

Now you have saved an image in your Image Library, you will want to know how to use it. Here’s how:

  1. Click on the ADD AN IMAGE icon on the FLIPCHART TOOL STRIP
  2. Choose IMAGE LIBRARY
  3. Make sure MY RESOURCES is selected
  4. You should now see your saved shape. To use it, simply drag it onto the page.
  5. You are now ready to add the words to the page. You will probably want to do this before the lesson. The best way to add text is to use the ADD TEXT OBJECT tool on the FLIPCHART TOOL STRIP.
  6. Choose RICH TEXT which will give you the option to format the text in lots of different ways.
  7. Click OK when you have finished the first word then repeat this process for all of the words.
  8. Finally, to add a tiled background to the page:
  9. Click BACKGROUND TILE on the FLIPCHART TOOL STRIP
  10. Choose TILE from the menu
  11. This time, make sure SHARED RESOURCES is selected
  12. You should now see a list of all the different categories of tiled backgrounds, to choose any one, simply drag it onto the page.
  13. Don’t forget to save your work by clicking then FLIPCHART then SAVE. Choose now between saving it as a NAMED file or a DATE AND TIME one