”Using Easiteach to DesignInteractive Activities"

November, 2014

Sofía Velázquez Ramírez Llaca

Program1st part: 15 min.

• Message from the Technology Director

2nd part: 35 min.

A. Introduction

B. Examples of Easiteach activities

C. Easiteach samples folder

D. Online IWB resources

E. Easiteach tools

3rd part: 40 min.

• Practice: Time to create an activity using Easiteach

4th part: 10 min.

• Sharing with the group

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a. Introduction

• What is Easiteach?

• Why use Easiteach?

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b. Examples

• Consider:

– Using the templates available and modifying them according to your needs.

– Blocking elements that should remain in place.

– Saving your templates and creating copies to do the activity with the group.

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c. Easiteach Samples

• In your “Documents” folder you’ll find

“Easiteach Samples”, which contains

predesigned activities and templates to

create your own.

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d. Online Resources

Activities in .ink formatcan be SAVED AS .iwb, which can be opened in

Easiteach

http://www.mimioconnect.com/

http://www.mimio.com/es-LA/Training/Overview.aspx

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ToolsEasiteach menu bar

• Mouse pointer - select mode

• On-screen keyboard

• Delete icon (trashcan)

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Drawing tools

• Pen, highlighter, shapes, lines, arrows

• Line width

• Resizing, moving, rotating

• Changing fill and stroke/border colors

Text tools

• Creating a text box

• Text formatting

• Resizing, moving, rotating

• Changing font and border colors

Multimedia bank

• Searching and adding images

• Adding images from My Files

• Importing images

• Sound and video recording

Widget bank

• Adding and using widgets

Plus:

• Accelerator menu functions

• Saving as PDF (to print)

Adding picturesfrom the web

1. Look for the image in a search engine, like Google.

2. Press CTRL and click on the image

3. Click on “Save image as…” and save the image on a folder

4. Go back to Easiteach

5. Go to

6. Click on

7. Look for the image in the folder you chose

8. Click on7

Accelerator menu

• Provides easy access

to the properties of

the object selected.

• The menu changes

depending on the

object selected.

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Saving as a PDF file(to be able to print)

1. Click on FILE – SAVE AS (Archivo – Guardar como)

2. Write a name for your file and choose a location

for it.

3. Change the file

type to .pdf

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PRACTICE

• Design an interactive activity for your class

using Easiteach.

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SHARING

• Show and explain your activity to the rest of

the teachers.

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