Category Archives: Notebook

Teq Calendar Lessons for May

Teq Calendar Lessons for May

This month the Teqsplorers are visiting the Large Hadron Collider to help us learn how to find circumference and radius as well as study the behavior of quarks.  You can join the Teqsplorers and download interactive lessons on these topics for SMART Notebook, RM Easiteach, and ActivInspire from our Educator Resource Center.

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992, 454 Downloads from the ERC

Thanks a Million!

Have you noticed the Educator Resource Center (ERC) download counter in the right column of the Teq community site? The Teq Educator Resource Center is quickly approaching its 1 millionth download. In celebration, we will be giving away a prize to 5 different people in the next few weeks, or however long it takes us … Read more

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SMART Notebook

Dude, Where’s My Floating Toolbar?

Are you working on your Mac trying to locate your SMART Board’s Floating Toolbar but have reason to believe it may have gone AWOL? Have no fear, Teq has recently learned of the miraculous way to lure it back to your desktop. It only takes a couple of minutes, and will save you a couple … Read more

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Teq Calendar for March

Teq Calendar Lessons for March

This month the Teqsplorers travel to the Hoover Dam to study hydroelectricity and to learn about the history of the location.  You can join the Teqsplorers and download interactive lessons on these topics for SMART Notebook, RM Easiteach, and ActivInspire from our Educator Resource Center.

Current in a Series Circuit, for middle school … Read more

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Zombie Math

The Math of a Zombie Apocalypse

Ever kept yourself awake at night thinking about a possible zombie apocalypse? I’ll admit that I do. But how fast would it all go down? How many days would I have before the entire globe is engulfed by brain-munching corpses? How many episodes are left of The Walking Dead?

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Pi Day

Day of Pi

Pi is an extremely interesting number, and the day to celebrate it is 3/14. The continuing pop culture references to Pi are evidence of the love people have for Math, and Math’s most widely known constant. Author of the Life of Pi, Yann Martel, said this of his choice of the name “Pi” for … Read more

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Using a Webcam to Capture Images to Your SMART Board

If you are looking to use your webcam for the purpose of taking pictures and annotating those images, look no further. This video will explain how to capture photos via webcam and then seamlessly add them to your SMART Notebook 11 software.

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GIFPAL

Create Your Own GIFs Using SMART Notebook and GIFPAL

The use of animated GIF files allows you to add motion and color to you SMART Notebook Lessons by simply copying from the web and pasting directly on your page. If you want to create your own animated files you can now do it through your browser using GIFPAL. To create one of these … Read more

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SMART Notebook

Redefining How You Use Your SMART Board

SMART recently updated SMART Ink, the tool that enables you to write on other applications outside of SMART Notebook. With this update, when you write on a website in Internet Explorer, the ink stays with the text when you scroll. This is huge! It completely changes the way you will use your SMART Board. … Read more

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SMART Notebook

SMART Notebook App for the iPad

Ever since the schools began integrating iPads into the classroom, teachers using SMART Notebook have been looking for a way to bring their interactive files to the device. SMART recently released a SMART Notebook app, and here’s what we’ve found:

  • Open Notebook files from DropBox, a web browser, Google Docs, Edmodo, or email. Keep in mind
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