Ways to add interactivity to Smart Boards
1. Move to Reveal
Change the color of the background of a slide.
Put a question on a Smart Notebook slide.
Type or write the answer
Use the shapes tool and draw a square or rectangle around the answer.
Fill the shape with the same color as the background of the slide thus hiding the answer.
Then you can move the shape to reveal the answer.
You can also add a picture from the gallery to hide the answers.
2. Erase to show the answer
Change the color of the background of a slide.
Put a question on a Smart Notebook slide.
Type or write the answer
Using the pen tool, scribble over the answer with the same color as the background.
To reveal the answer, use the eraser and erase the scribble
3. Magnifying glass to reveal the answer
Change the color of the background of a slide.
Put a question on a Smart Notebook slide.
Type or write the answer
Make the text color the same color as the background
Use the shape tool to make a shape
Fill the shape with the color white
Click on the shape with will put a dotted box around your shape
Click on the arrow pointing down in the top right corner on the dotted box
Click Order – Send to Back…this causes the text to appear over top of the white shape, thus revealing the answer.
4. Reveal by changing blending text color
Draw a box that fills half of the screen
Draw another box or clone the first one and move it beside the first box
Fill the right and left boxes to be different colors
Type your question on one side and put the answer on the same side.
Change the text of the answer to be the same as the background color.
Then to reveal, move the answer to the other box.
5. Pull Tabs
Open a new slide
Click on the Gallery
Click on the + to expand “Lesson Activity Toolkit”
Click on Pull Tabs
Drag a pull tab from the gallery onto your slide
Put either text or a picture on your slide
Put the pull tab and the text or picture beside each other
Click on one then press and hold the control key and click on the other
They should both have a square around them
Click on one of the down arrows
Click on “Grouping”
Click Group
This makes the pull tab and other object (picture or text) one image that you can move together
Dual Display
Example:
View
Zoom
Dual page
Shows pages side by side
Zoom
Pin page (allows the first page to stay the same, but you can scroll through the other pages)
To Get out:
View Zoom
Single page
Here are a few good resources for smart board tutorials/examples:
http://smarttech.com/Trainingcenter/ (click on video)
http://techtips-ssd.wikispaces.com/smartboard
http://joepropel.wikispaces.com/Smartboard+Resources
http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/smart_board_tips_and_tricks/