Our+Plan+for+the+Year

Creating a flipchart can seem very overwhelming. We will meet in the lab once a month for a hands on learning lab. The meetings will be after school each 3rd Wednesday of the month. Our time in the lab will be spent reviewing the following tutorials. If you want to explore them before each session, that would be beneficial.

If at anytime you have questions, please post them in the discussion link at the top of this page, after each session we will be using Wall Wisher to reflect on what we learned.

October - Getting Started
 * Setting up your Promethean Board
 * This youtube [|video] will demonstrate how to set up your board in 90 seconds or less
 * Before our October meeting, set up your board and practice callibrating it
 * [|Wall Wisher Reflection]

November - The basics
 * This month's topic will focus on the basic tools Activinspire has to offer
 * You will open Activinspire and view this [[file:basicttools.flipchart]]
 * You should view this before our meeting, but we will go through it and answer any questions in the lab
 * [|Wall Wisher Reflection]

December - Review the Basics
 * This month we will review the basics to make sure you feel comfortable with the topics discussed last month
 * You will also have a chance to explore these on your own
 * You will open Activinspire and view this [[file:priorknowledgetrianing.flipchart]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We will be utilizing the activotes in the lab and reviewing the basics together
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Wall Wisher Reflection]

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">January - Promethean Planet
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Promethean Planet is a great resource for finding already made flipcharts
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You can access promethean planet by clicking [|here]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Your job is to find 3 flpcharts you could use in your classroom and post them to the corresponding wiki page
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Before posting it though, you will need to critique the flipchart by using this [|form]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We will go over this process in the lab
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Wall Wisher Reflection]

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">February - Resource Packs
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Promethean Planet is full of backgrounds, graphs, and other fun resources you can use to incorporate to your flipcharts
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We will be searching [|Promethean Planet] for resources packs and learning how to put them in our shared resources section of Activinspire
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Watch this [|video] to help understand how to import resource packs
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We will go over this process in the lab
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Wall Wisher Reflection]

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">March - Magic Revealers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Now that we know the basics of flipcharts, we will learn how to create and use magic revealers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">These are very exciting and students will love it, watch this [|video] here to learn how to create a magic revealer
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We will be adding a magic revealer to one of our flipcharts in the lab, be thinking how you would like to use it
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Wall Wisher Reflection]

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">April - Inserting Media
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You can insert audio, video, and hyperlinks into your flipchart
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This youtube [|video] will teach us how
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We will add media to our own flipcharts in the lab
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Wall Wisher Reflection]

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">May - Review of this year's topics and closing activities
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We will share the flipcharts we have created and critique eachother's using this [|form]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This will also be our last time to ask questions for the year
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We will be coming up with our year 2 plan
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Wall Wisher Reflection]