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**SMARTBoard Tips and Tricks**

Goals:

 * 1) ===Become comfortable using the SMARTBoard's basic functions.===
 * 2) ===Discover and reproduce how to use 3 new tools appropriate to your classroom.===
 * 3) ===Implement 3 new strategies learned in this session into your teaching.===

Tools you may have missed in the Notebook software

 * Measuring Tool - allows you to measure straight line, angles, etc [[image:measure.png]]
 * Transparency Background: Makes the Notebook disappear so you can write on the screen behind(like a browser) [[image:transparent.png]]
 * Shape Recognizer: a pen tool that can recognize the shape you are drawing and give it cleaner lines [[image:shape.png]]
 * Polygon Tool - allows you to draw a polygon with many, many different number of sides [[image:polygon.png]]
 * Show Links - will make any embeded links flash for attention, so you know where to click [[image:links.png]]
 * Magic Pen - a new addition with several hidden functions [[image:magic_pen.png]]

Useful Links:

 * **Smartboard Exchange: A collection of standards aligned lessons for all subjects provided by SmartTech**
 * **SmartTech Tutorials: Tutorials on how to use many of the different tools in Notebook**
 * **How To Create/Use:**
 * **Checker Tool**
 * **Click to Reveal**
 * **Pull Tabs**
 * **Power Point Jeopardy - A PPT template you can use on your Smartboard/Projector [[file:w_europe_jeopardy.ppt]]**
 * **Farmington Standards Project: A standards based collection of Lessons and Tools for all technologies**
 * **5 Simple Tips: A video with a few good tips that even I didn't know about, and a few I already did.**