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North American Jewish Day School Conference (NAJDSC)
Rabbis Shimon Siegel and Gershom Tave traveled from Teq to Washington, DC, for the North American Jewish Day School Conference. This conference brought together more than 1,000 Jewish education leaders from a wide variety of Jewish Day Schools from across the country to advance the agenda of field-wide leadership and excellence.
The theme for … Read more
TeqNikud Update
Last Fall we released a major innovation for Hebrew typing. Instead of accessing Hebrew vowels on the keyboard by engaging CAPS LOCK key and then pressing SHIFT and a number key (a process which prevents typing more Hebrew letters until the CAPS LOCK is disengaged) the TeqNikud modified Hebrew keyboard layout allowed typing Hebrew vowels … Read more
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Celebrating Learning
Today we celebrate the completion – and beginning – of the Daf Yomi cycle. Next month, many of our children will begin their elementary school careers. By the next siyum Daf Yomi, they will need to have mastered…
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Gematria
- Abbreviations
- Critical Thinking
- Memorization Techniques
- Communication Skills
- Flow Charting
- Social Skills
- Verbal Skills
- Writing
Using Grouping to Control Layers
Every object on a SMART Notebook page receives its own layer on that page. If you have ten objects on a page, there are ten layers on that page. The natural order of those objects is that the newest object always goes in front of the previous objects. By planning in advance what you want … Read more
Cloning Notebook Pages
SMART Notebook will allow you to clone whole pages. Cloning pages will provide a more professional and consistent look across multiple pages.
You can clone:
- A single page within a Notebook file
- A single page to another Notebook file
- Multiple pages to another Notebook file
- Multiple pages within a single Notebook file
To clone a … Read more
Multiple פְּסוּקִים in Notebook
Many people are under the impression that the way to get Hebrew onto a SMART Notebook page is by image capture. We have made a lot of progress, and now we can type Hebrew directly into Notebook and Lesson Activity Toolkit objects – even with vowels. We can also drag ‘n’ drop Hebrew text onto the … Read more
3 Container Sort
The Container Sort is an interactive way for your students to sort images and ideas. This tool will allow your students to sort objects into containers that look like the idea they represent. The keys to its functionality are layering, ordering and facades.
You can create a great 3-Container Sort in 4 easy steps:
1.… Read more
Handwriting Recognition (in Hebrew, Too!)
The great news we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. SMART Notebook 10.8 recognizes Hebrew handwriting!
You can write all your class notes in Hebrew script, open the drop-down menu, choose “recognize…” and convert your handwriting into your default Notebook font. In fact, you can even select Hebrew and English handwriting together, and each … Read more
SMART Stencils
Not only can you choose the color-fill for shapes that you make in SMART Notebook, but you can even change the color for certain pictures from the Gallery or the Internet.
If you insert a picture to your SMART Notebook lesson from the internet or from the Gallery, the only fill effect that the properties … Read more
Picture Perfect Notebook
Sometimes we want to transfer text to the SMART Notebook page but Notebook seems not to accept the text in its original form. Either the sentence order gets chopped up or the font is changed from the original. The answer to that problem is, אין הכי נמי – you’re exactly right, it’s a problem. Notebook … Read more
