ActivInspire - E-board training videos

This is a series of screencasts I´ve produced to help our teachers get used to the new updated version software for the Promethean e-board. We used ActivStudio before but this vacations all our boards will have the new version, so here it is.
Watch High-quality tutorials here http://screenr.com/user/anamariacult

The last tutorials are not mine but got from a very good youtube channel.

1. Exploring the TOOLBOX and the RESOURCE LIBRARY



2. Adding ANIMATIONS



You can find great animations @ http://www.sevenoaksart.co.uk/

3. Adding VIDEOS



4. Drag a copy (warmer activity)



5. Hiding Text / Hiding Images



6. Using the Camera to take screenshots.



7. Creating Captions



8. Adding and associating sounds to actions



9. Action Objects and Layers



ActivInspire Manual

Activ Inspire Training Manual

Halloween 2009 - 2010

Use this video at the beginning of classes this week to advertise the HALLOWEEN PARTY.

Bookr Project: WHO AM I?

Este projeto foi desenvolvido pela teacher Polyana Vida com seus alunos de Teen3. Usando a webtool BOOKR, alunos criaram um livro online sobre WHO AM I? (Quem sou eu?)

Check them out, para virar a página, clique no canto inferior direito. Para ver na tela inteira, clique em FULL SIZE. The books are FANTASTIC! Good job!

E-board training - (Promethean)

These are two tutorials to help you consolidate what we have seen in our face 2 face training. If you can´t see the tutorial on this page, click on the links.

TUTORIAL 1: basic tools
http://recordings.dimdim.com/view/dimdim/5b42c550-3c57-102c-bbd7-003048944478



TUTORIAL 2: Creating flipcharts
http://recordings.dimdim.com/view/dimdim/56b4705e-3d08-102c-bbd7-003048944478

Thanksgiving at Karen´s place

We´d like to thank Karen from the bottom of our hearts for the lovely party we had last Friday. The menu was sublime and the company couldn´t be better. These are some of the photos I took but soon I´ll include the pictures taken by Gilson, Polyana, Lívia, and other cameras I saw there flashing around.

TDC 29 august 2008

As requested, these are the ppt. used during the Teacher Development course today.

Luiz Pedro´s presentations:

• Spontaneity
• Sentence patterns

Ana Maria´s presentations:

• Blog talks
• Classroom management

Vocabulary learning tips.

As a student, as long as I remember, it's always been a pleasure for me learning new vocabulary. Therefore I used to have a notebook in which I took notes of every single new word I learned and tried to draw and, sometimes write sentences my teacher metioned in order to fix the new expression.Organising these words into groups came as an idea later on. First I just took notes of them disorganasedly, after some time, and realising these words came from different word groups (e.g.: adjectives, verbs, adverbs, nouns, etc) I tried separating parts of my notebook for each of these and, as time went by I had quite a considerable glossary with the exporessions I'd seen in class.This technique helped me a lot revising before my tests and also on the following semesters as I used to keep these notebook for years on.There are other techinques we can use to help us learn new vocabulary, I hope you've enjoyed this one, I promiss I'll bring you more!

Cheers!

New Co-Editor

Hi everyone!

As a result of the relevance of my personal blog subject I've been invited by Ana Maria to co-edit this blog with her. My contribution will be, as a matter of fact, to provide some useful hints you teachers can give your students on how to learn better and more efficently!

I Hope u all enjoy what's coming!

It's a pleasure caring and sharing with you this experience!

Cheers!