Lesson Seven

Saving a hyperlink to a notebook page.

Sometimes teachers want to create a notebook lesson that includes a hyperlink to an Internet page or to a document in their files. It is quite easy to do this.

First open your notebook.
Select "Insert" from the top drop down menu.
Select "Link"

On the left of the new window you will see a few options: web link, document link, page link, and attachment link. Select the kind of link you want.

If you choose web link--you will then have a window to type in the web address of the page you would like to link to. Type in the web page, select as object or corner link (try each to see the difference).

Then save. You have connected your notebook lesson to a web page.
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If you decide you would like to link your notebook to a powerpoint or word document in your files, simply choose insert/link again.

This time pick browse and go find where you saved your powerpoint or document. Select the one you want.

Now when you click on it the document or powerpoint will open right from the notebook.

Enjoy:)
BD

Another Resource

Smarttech has now added a threaded discussion community to its services. You can join this bulletin board at

http://exchange.smarttech.com/forums/

The threaded discussion will allow folks from all over to post questions and to share ideas and answers.

I would also love folks to join our wiki--the link to join is in the right hand column of this blog. A wiki allows us to all input our thoughts and ideas (like wikipedia) and have one place where all of our collective wisdom is shared. To join you need to go to the site and press "join" at the top right. You will create a free wikispaces account. Then go back to my smartboard wiki page and select "join this page" at the top left. I will get an email showing that you have requested to join and I will accept. Then you can make additions and changes to the wiki as well as just searching our wiki for ideas whenver you need them. I foresee it growing to a page that has subdivisions by subject and grade area with many places to share links, ideas, and materials.

Enjoy!
BD

Lesson Six

Lesson Six
Hopefully you are all having great fun with your boards. Lesson Six I am going to get specific to a learning topic, division, mostly because I just finished fishing out these sites for another smartboard user and I thought I might as well share them with everyone. For the beginners I am going to ask you to just try out the lesson sites and downloads. For the advanced I am going to show you how to search for such items for yourselves.

Beginners:

Go to this site:

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

in the search box type "division" and two links will come up.

The numberline applet demonstrates how division works on a number line. Hit the little division symbol at the bottom and then hit the "go" button at the top. Watch what happens. You can select "new problem" to see many different examples.

If you hit the internet "back" button, you can then check out the other link. The rectangle division link takes you to an applet that demonstrates division in rows and columns (great for showing what remainders actually mean). Use the little scroll bar on the left to change the factors (divisor and quotient). Use the up down arrows next to the number to change the dividend. Fun stuff for "seeing" division in action.

If you want something different, try this link:

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+activities/

Go to the above site. Select the "View all" hyperlink under "United States."

Then in the search box type "division," you will get four downloadable notebook lessons--pick one or all to download and try out. I find these lessons are usually pretty good. I think once they are downloaded you can simply link on them and your notebook software will open.

Hope that gives you some fun!
:)Bonita

Advanced Users

Try the lesson above--meant for beginners EXCEPT--use the search boxes to find things specifically of interest to YOU. The first site (Virtual Library of Math Manipulatives) has many incredible math resources that work wonderfully with a smartboard. The second site is a searchable database of all lesson topics. These topics and lessons are designed by teachers and the database is provided by smarttech. You can even add your own lessons to share with others.

ENJOY!
BD