Lesson One

BEGINNER LESSON ONE: Do you know about your projector's buttons? These buttons can be vitally important if you are in the middle of a lesson and your projector is suddenly not projecting or you are in the middle of a lesson and you want to briefly turn off the screen without shutting down the projector.

Some buttons to try:

pic mute--notice when you hit this button on your remote control your projector lamp goes off? When you hit it again, it comes back on. Great feature to use when you need the lamp off at the beginning of a lesson or even in the middle. If you finish a lesson and plan to use the board again in less than 2 hours, pic mute is a better option for projector life than turning the whole machine off.

RGB or source button- projectors and remotes can be different, but you should look for a button that talks of "source" or "RGB". This button helps you to tell the projector where to look for the signal. If your projector is on and it says no input--this may be the problem.


ADVANCED LESSON ONE--Where to find out everything I can teach you and more...

I am happy to set up this blog so that we have an interactive medium for learning about our boards, but the truth is harsh. There is a much better source of training out there than me! At Smarttech.com you can use the tutorials to learn everything you could hope to learn about your board in bite sized increments. Go to this link and try out the 2 minute tutorial called "Powerpoint Software" to see what I mean:

Link

The tutorial shows you all the basics of using a powerpoint with the smartboard, including how to save any marks you might make while presenting a slide show. At the same webpage you will also find anther training source on powerpoints:

Using Microsoft PowerPoint Software on a SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard (PDF 671 KB) at

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This PDF document will show you everything in the quick tutorial, plus what to do if you make a mark on your slide show and forget to save it--but want it back!

That is the end of lesson one. Hope there was a little something there for everybody.

:)Bonita