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Interacting with the Smart Board

Why use SMART Board?

Simply because SMART Board™ helps to energize presentations and to motivate learners!

What can I do with a SMART Board?

  • Getting started.
  • Use Microsoft Office applications with SMART Board.
  • Search the internet from your projected image.
  • Use SMART Notebook to create new documents.
  • Use SMART Notebook’s handwriting recognition capabilities.
  • Merge MS Office documents with Smart Notebook documents.
  • Save your work.

Using the SMART Board

Basic Instructions: Getting Started

  1. Turn on Computer. (Power Button)
  1. Turn on Projector. (Red Power Button—Often on top or back)
  2. Assure cable is connected from SMART Board ™ to hard drive/USB port.
  3. Tap SMART Board ™ icon once with finger or single-click with mouse. (This icon is found on Windows System Tray in the lower right corner of Windows desktop).
  1. Click once on Notebookat top of menu.
  1. Now follow directions for your desired task (Remaining slides are titled appropriately).

Using the “Pens” (Styluses) and eraser with SMART Notebook™

  1. You use the styluses. (the pen-looking items in the SMART Board tray)

and the eraser. (the disc-shaped item)

Just like you would use pens and erasers on a regular whiteboard. Just pick up a pen and start writing, or pick up the eraser and erase what you just wrote!

(NOTE) The board assumes that the last item you picked up is the one you want to use. If you have picked up two pens, the color you picked up second is the one you will be writing in.

  1. Replace pen/stylus in tray when you have finished writing.

Converting Handwriting to Typed Text

  1. With your finger, tap on the word that you want to convert (It may help to tap on a line of ink) your word will be surrounded by a selection box.
  1. Press the “A” button in the upper right hand corner of the selection box.
  2. Select from the options listed to change your handwriting into typed text.
  1. Once you have converted your handwriting, you can use a regular keyboard (or the on-screen keyboard) to edit the text, just like you would with a word processor like Microsoft Word ™.

Using the On-Screen Keyboard to Edit Text

  1. To activate the on-screen keyboard you can do either of the following:
  2. Double-clickon the SMART board icon (bottom right-hand corner

of Windows desktop) then click on Keyboard.

OR

  1. SMART Pen Tray. (to the right of the pens)

  1. Once the keyboard is on the SMART board, move it to a convenient position by touching the top bar and dragging it to the desired position.
  1. Press twice (like double clicking with a mouse) quickly on the text that you wish to edit. It will be enclosed in a selection box and a cursor will appear, allowing you to edit.
  2. To close the on-screen keyboard; press once on the x in the upper right hand corner of the keyboard.

Saving your Notebook™ Work

  1. Select File From the menu bar
  2. Select Save

OR

Press the save button on the toolbar (the button looks like a small floppy

disk).

Using Microsoft Office Applications with SMART Board™

  1. From your computer terminal or from the interactive white board, open the application or document that you want to use. Go through the same steps that you normally use to open a document or an application.
  1. Use the colored styluses to make notes on your document.
  1. To convert an annotation to text, press down on the note that you want to convert with stylus for approximately 3 seconds. A pop-up menu will appear.Selectinsert your word. The word will be inserted wherever the cursor was last.
  1. To save an annotation in the handwritten form, press down on that note with stylus for approximately 3 seconds. A pop-up menu will appear, selectInsert ink injectionfrom the menu.

NOTE: If you do not go through these steps to save the annotations that you have made on your Word or PowerPoint document, the notes will not be saved once you have closed your document. However, anything that you have used the keyboard to type, delete, etc. will be saved when you save your document as you normally would.

Educational TechnologyCenter Revised 08/07/06