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Where Can I use the SMART Board?

• Math Class• Science Class• Language Arts• Mi’kmaq Language• Social Studies• Art Class• Technology Classes• And many more places

Connecting Your Smart Board

projectorSMART Board

Computer

9 pin

USB Port9 pin video port

Shine to the board

Getting Started• Make sure your LCD Projector is

shining on the board properly.• Lock wheels on stand so it doesn’t

move.• Orient the SMART board.• You’re ready to go!

The SMART Board Notebook

• This program is where you can do work and store it.

• Comes with many built in tools and galleries.

• Save images from other programs in here too.

Other Tools

• The Camera Tools• Select a chosen area• Select a section• Select the entire screen• Saves in the Notebook

Let’s try it!

Other tools• The Shape Drawing Tool

– Choose circles, rectangles, trapezoids and more

• The Line Drawing Tool– Choose from a variety of lines with

different ends

• The Text Tool

Other tools• The Pen Tool• Funky Pens• The Eraser Tool• Line & Fill Colours• Line Width Tool• Line Style Tool

Page Sorter• Delete, move, and

clone pages• Drag items from one

page to another• Name pages• See all the pages in

your document

Add a Page

The Gallery• Use the gallery clip art

to enhance your teaching

• Save your own gallery items to use over and over again

• Import pictures and clipart to your own created galleries

Add Items to the Gallery

• Draw an item in your notebook• Drag it into your gallery• Now it’s saved there to use again

and again.

Create Your Own Gallery

• Click on my content• Click on Add / Import• Choose Add new Subcategory• Give it a name• Draw Items and drag them in

or import items from somewhere else on your computer

Import items into a Gallery

• To import pictures from somewhere else on your computer– Import picture– Find the file on your computer– Select all the pictures (CTRL-A) or

select certain pictures (CTRL and Click to select more than one)

– Click Open

Import items into a Gallery

• To import a gallery collection from somewhere else (Ex. Internet)– Save file to your computer– Click on Add /Import– Choose Import Collection File– In open window, select file where it

was saved– Click Open