Tag Archives: SMART Notebook

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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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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President's Day

President’s Day Activities in SMART Notebook

We’re always looking to share SMART Notebook activities with teachers. As a History major and former Social Studies teacher, February always brought one of my favorite holiday-related topics: Presidents. With Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on February 12, George Washington’s birthday on February 20, and President’s Day falling in between (this year) on February 18, I figured … Read more

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ActiveInspire

Converting SMART Notebook Files to ActivInspire

What if you are an ActivInspire user that would like to use a SMART Notebook file on your ActiveBoard, maybe a Notebook file from our Educator Resource Center? Never Fear! There’s a simple way to convert SMART Notebook files for use as Flipchart files in ActivInspire.

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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

Build It with the Activity Builder

Are you puzzled by the puzzle piece tab in SMART Notebook?  The Activity Builder is a new feature in SMART Notebook 11.  It has many of the benefits of the Lesson Activity Toolkit and allows educators to create more organic-looking, hands-on exercises.

This video shows how the Activity Builder can add interactivity to your SMART … Read more

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SMART Notebook

25 Examples of Using Tables in SMART Notebook

Today we’ll be broadcasting Fun with Tables, a live webinar on using tables in SMART Notebook 11. It will cover using tables for organizing or to create fun interactive activities. We’ve also put together a Notebook file, 25 Examples of Using Tables in SMART Notebook, that you can download.

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Hawaii

Teq Calendar Lessons for October

This month the Teqsplorers say “Aloha” to Hawaii! While in paradise they will be Collecting Evidence of Ecological Succession and Identifying  Igneous  Rocks. 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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