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GETTINGSTARTEDWITHSMART NOTEBOOKSOFTWARE
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SMART Board®Tools
YoucandrawattentiontospecificpartsofapageusingSMART BoardTools,suchasthe
ScreenShade,Spotlight,MagnifierandPointer.
What’snew
SMART Notebook2015softwareincludesthefollowingnewfeaturesintheDecemberrelease.
SMART Notebook15.2software
Feature
Topic
NewLessonActivityBuilder(LAB)activitiesandthemes
LABincludestwonewactivities:SpeedUpandLabel
Reveal.WithSpeedup,studentsraceagainsteachother
byansweringquestions.WithLabelReveal,students
progressivelyunmaskdescriptivelabelsofanobject’s
features.
Textandimagescannowbeusedwithallactivities(with
theexceptionofFillIntheBlanks).Thisaddsanewfun
dimensiontotheactivities.
Aswell,therearenewLABthemes,includingKnightand
Dragon,Bees,andSimpletheme.
CreatingactivitieswithLesson
ActivityBuilder onpage 134
Managing LessonActivityBuilder
contentonpage 157
NewShoutItOut!features
ThisreleaseofShoutItOut!includesnewteacher
orientedfeatures,sothatastudent’scontributioncanbe
easilymovedfromonecategorytoanother.Student-side
additionsincludeadeviceHomescreeniconanda
contextualnumerickeyboardforenteringnumbers.
Asalways,studentscanquicklycreateandcontributetext
andimagecontenttoLABcontentcreationactivities
usingtheirownmobiledevices,andteacherscaneasily
curatethecontent.
AddingaShoutItOut!activityon
page 147
AddingStudentContributionsToA
ShoutItOut!Activityonpage 149