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New Course Announcement

Teacher Online Training has a new type of course offering called Notebook Challenges. These challenges help teachers utilize their Notebook skills in new and exciting ways. Teachers get support when needed and when they complete the challenge, they will have a new technique that can be applied to their Notebook lessons.

The first challenge is called the Slurp Reveal. Why not see if you're up to the challenge.

Check out the Notebook Challenge - The Slurp Reveal

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Tips & Tricks

Getting the Right-Click menu to appear on the SMART Board

SMART Board users do not need to use the Right-Click button on the SMART Board to bring up the Right-Click menu. Instead, if you hold your finger down on the SMART Board for three seconds, the right-click menu will appear at that location. pens

Since you do not need to use the Right-Click button on the SMART Board to access the Right-Click menu, you can set that button to perform other functions like clearing the screen, printing the screen, or accessing the Smart Screen Capture Tool. If you want to change what happens when you press the Right-Click button on the SMART Board, just go to the SMART Board Control Panel, click on SMART Hardware Settings, select Pen and Buttons Settings from the drop-down menu, and then click on the mouse/keyboard icon.

Featured Website

Toy Theater - Learn Create Play

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This site contains an amazing collection of primary school resources for Mathematics, Art, Music, and Reading. Each section contains lots of interactive activities that work great on the SMART Board. This is one of those amazing resources that should be bookmarked on every primary teacher's computer.

Visit Toy Theater

Notebook Video Tutorial

Creating a Reset Button on a Notebook Page

This video tutorial demonstrates how to create a reset function to reset a Notebook page back to its original state.

Visit the Video Tutorial Library

Notebook Lesson

Touch and Reveal Applications

The link below will take you to a blog post that shows has a short video on using a technique that reveals information when students click on an object. On that page, there is a link that will direct you to a Notebook Download Page that contains ten authentic learning applications created by teachers that took part in the Touch and Reveal Challenge. Please feel free to download and use the applications in your classroom.

Touch and Reveal Notebook Applications

If you experience problems opening the Notebook files, make sure you Save the file instead of Opening the file. If the file extension gets changed to <.zip> after you save the file, rename the file so the extension is <.notebook> and you should then be able to open the file using Smart Notebook. Switching to the Firefox browser may also help.

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