Kathe Santillo. Instructional Technology Coach
Creating a Half-Graph/Half-Blank Note Screen for Your ActivBoard
How can I use the skill explainedbelow?
The display screen on your ActivBoard will be half graph paper for graphing problems and the other half will be a blank white area for writing notes.
How does this benefit myteaching/students?
Addresses multiple learning styles
Encourages student participation
HOW TO MAKE A HALF-GRAPH PAGE
1)
Open the ActivStudio Professional Edition software on your laptop.2)
Click on
New Flipchart
on the Dashboard (big menu). A blank Flipchart pagewill open.3)
Click on the Resource Library icon. It is on the far-right side of the screen andis a stack of books.4)
When the Resource Library opens, make sure the
Shared Resources
optionis selected. It is the icon of two people at the top of the menu.5)
Click on the
Shared Grids
icon. Several thumbnail examples of grids willappear, as well as a branched menu with specific choices, such as
graph paper, x-y lined,
etc.6)
Choose the style of graph you want to use. Move the cursor over thethumbnail example and drag the thumbnail to the main blank Flipchart page.The background of your page should now be the graph or grid you selected.7)
Close the Resource Library.8)
Double-Click your cursor on the grid background on your Flipchart page. A
Page Edit
box will appear.9)
Select the “
Snap to Grid”
icon. It looks like a square from a grid with anarrow in it. This will make any line you draw automatically snap straight tothe closest grid line.10)
Close the Page Edit box.
September 14, 2007Volume 2 Issue 2
CFF :Step-By-StepTech
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