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Getting Started with SMART Response LE, Part 2

Exporting Assessment Results

Giving a SMART Response LE assessment is a little different then with other versions of Response. Each of the questions asked in LE need to be started and then stopped when all students have responded. Results for that particular question will be visible in the Response tab.

If you are looking to … Read more

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Getting Started with Smart Response LE, Part 1

In the last few months we have been putting Smart Response LE to the test (no pun intended…)! There are a few little things that you will need to know in order to get going smoothly with LE.

Connecting Clickers to the Receiver

One difference we came across was that in order for younger students … Read more

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Forum: I hardly know ‘em!

So if you are reading this blog, look up to the top section of this page.  You may see a little button that says “Forum.”  Believe it or not, Teq has had a forum for educators to check out for quite a long time.  This forum is an area for folks to share … Read more

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Google Wonder Wheel

Searching the internet just got a whole lot better!  The Google Wonder Wheel will bring searching the internet to a whole new level.

To activate the Wonder Wheel, enter a search term into Google (as you normally would) and click “Search.”  When you get to the results page, click on “Show options.”  Under the bold … Read more

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Keeping an Eye on Our Blog

Here are a few quick and easy ways to keep up-to-date on our blog.

If you want to collect our blog feed with a desktop application that will download the latest posts, you can download Feed Reader.

There are plenty of websites out there that will collect blog feeds. We use Bloglines, a … Read more

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LAT Highlights

The Lesson Activity Toolkit (LAT) in the Smart Notebook Gallery can be pretty overwhelming.  So we thought we would take a moment and point out some of our favorite pieces!

Random Word Chooser

The Random Word Chooser is a great classroom management tool.  Drag the object onto your workspace and type in the names of … Read more

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Capture Tool Headache? Here’s the Solution!

Using your Screen Capture Tools can be a great way to add different elements to your Notebook pages. But you may have noticed that when you take an Area Capture, the resulting image is larger then the original.  This drove me crazy until I found the following solution.

All you have to do is change … Read more

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Create a Reset Button on Your Notebook Page?

We have been asked a number of times if there was a way to “reset” SMART Notebook pages after a student interacts with a page. Let’s say you want your students to take turns solving a problem but, you want the page to reset to its original state once each student or group of students … Read more

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Senteo Q & A

We’ve been asked a few questions about Senteo lately and thought we’d take a moment and answer some of them here.

Q: “If I create a class list on my Mac at home, can I save it on a flash drive and use it on my PC in school?”

A: You definitely can! Just like … Read more

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Go Back in Time Without a Flux Capacitor!

There is no better way to teach history then to actually look at history, right? Well, we have yet to meet a crazy doctor who makes a time machine with spare DeLorean (yeah right like there is just a stockpile of junked DeLoreans) parts, so we’ll need to find something else. We came across a … Read more

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