Volume II
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February 1 , 2006
Promethean Board Resources and Tips

Engage your students with ACTIVstudio!

Statue of Liberty
Resources are Attached
Blast Off With Numbers
Examples of Developer Incorporated

Second graders were recently involved in investigating our United States symbols. To kick off the unit they learned about the Statue of Liberty using the first flipchart above. Using other resource materials, the board and classroom computers, the students completed the tasks in the Statue of Liberty flipchart and moved on to learn more about the other symbols with the United States Symbols flipchart. Tricia Evans, Cindy Arnold and Becky Sexton did a great job guiding their students in collaborative groups to finish their research reports. Great job second grade!

Kindergarten students were engaged with our new ACTIVotes by working with the Blast Off with Numbers flipchart. This flipchart contains only graphics from the resource library with the exception of the text titles. Their are so many graphics to inspire thematic activities within the ACTIVstudio software. The flipchart was used as an assessment of math skills the kindergarten student have been learning. The kindergarten students and teachers did a great job using the ACTIVotes!

In order to download the above flipcharts follow directions below on how to save online flipcharts.

 
Are you an ACTIVuser of
Shared Shapes?
Shared Shapes

Shared Shapes will become one of your favorites tools when creating engaging and dynamic flipcharts. These shapes can used in a variety of ways. One of the most popular ways to use shapes is to create two background colors to utilize the magic effect of different text colors. A simple square is used and formatted to create a flipchart as in example 2 below. To see how this works view this short flipchart recording by clicking here. Be sure to follow these steps when opening this recorded flipchart.

  • Select open at the first window.
  • You will see a blank page with the recorder toolbar.
  • Be sure the recorder is set at 2 seconds.
  • Select the play button ( third button from left) to view how the flipchart was created.
More Ways to Use Color Formatting

Several examples below show how to use this method with other designs. To open the color example flipchart that contains these six pages follow these steps:

How to Save Online Flipcharts

  • Right click the link below
  • Select Save Target As
  • Navigate to a folder
  • Where it names the file colorchange.zip, change the .zip to .flp so it looks like this: 5senses.flp
  • Select Save

To learn how to quickly create see the ACTIVteacher Quick Tips below.

Color Change Examples

(1) Multiplication
(2) Vocabulary and Grammar
(3) Rounding
(4) Color Words
(5) Even Numbers
(6) Odd and Even Numbers
 
ACTIVteacher Quick Tips!
Duplicating Made Easy!

Do you use the duplicate tool on the object edit toolbar? What a quick way to create the color flipcharts shared above. Once you create the text and format for both colors, duplicate the text to quickly create the other items on the chart. Once duplicated use the text Formatting tool to change the text for one or both words.

Objects/images can also be easily duplicated. This suitcase is located in Shared Annotations inside the object folder. Use the paint can to add color.
Shared Lines!
Shared lines in the Resource Library contains many useful arrows, bullets and lines. Open Line Groups, the bottom choice, to quickly drag eight lines over when making a quick list. These can be expanded to fill the entire flipchart page.

How do you lock backgrounds?

Many times you will want to lock the shape backgrounds or even images and text so that student will not move them on the board as they work.

Select the image or text and right click. Select edit and then in the pop out list select lock.

More Promethean Resources

Visit Promethean USA to view many resources posted by teachers. These flipcharts can be downloaded and used in your classroom.

  • Select Training and Resources
  • Select ACTIVresources
  • Select Core Curriculum to search or
  • Select What's New to see recent submissions

Check out What's New often to see what other educators are submitting! If you have an exemplary flipchart you would like to share, please register at the site and submit in the correct category. Please ask if you need assistance.

 

 
 
   
 
Promethean Web Byte with Interactive Activities!
BBC Skillswise is a great resource for interactive lessons on the web. This site is aimed at adult's to improve math, literacy and writing skills but some of the areas are very useful for our young learner's.
  • The Words and Numbers contain links to fact sheets, quizzes, worksheets to print as well as learning interactive games.
  • Over 50 interactive games are listed in the Games section!
 
More Web Bytes
Olympic Resources for the 2006 Olympics.
February 2005 e-link has some heart resources.
Don't forget to visit Atomic Learning to view online tutorials on how to use ACTIVstudio!
 

Created by Kathy Adkins
Instructional Technology Specialist
Forsythia County Schools
The Technology Loop