Saturday, October 16, 2010

Inspiration and IWBs

These activities can be used independently or...


Factor Product Puzzles.ist
Match the decimals.ist

...screen capture parts of them and add to IWB notebook software and turn into teaching activities.


Have several pages of the same activity, so that you can start the children off on it and then leave them to continue. You will be able to keep an eye on what the children are doing by watching the projector. Students could be recording in their exercise books as well.

 Adding up to a 100.ink mimio example
 Adding up to 100.notebookSmartboard example
 Adding up to 100.flipchartActivinspire example

Thursday, October 14, 2010

How to record in mimio

Click on mimio Recorder in drop down panel in your notification bar
or click on mimio recorder in the Applications button







Click on the Red record button to start






Start writing on the mimio page. When you have finished writing/speaking click on the recorder icon in the system tray 
Click the Stop button and press the Play button to view the recording. It will open as a movie. When you close recorder, it will ask you if you want to save and it will save as a movie file.
To insert the movie drag onto the mimio page or go to File - Import. Right click on the movie and select Lock. Press the Play button to see your movie.

How could you use this tool?
Record yourself forming letters correctly. Children can practice their letters using the mimio pen and watching the formation of the letters at the same time.