Phase 2 Interactive Classroom: The Interwrite Pad and Lesson Design Michelle Johnson TRT

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Phase 2 Interactive Classroom The Interwrite
Pad and Lesson DesignMichelle JohnsonTRT

• Please take a look at the Before we begin note
  at the top of your handout and complete the
  steps.
• You were to have charged your pad overnight. If
  you did not, plug it in now!

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Quick Review

• The tech staff has created an Interactive
  Classroom How To Wiki. (This means several of
  us have worked on this web page and are
  continually adding helpful documents for you to
  access.)
• Go to the district homepage
• Departments
• Technology
• Instructional Technology
• Click the Interactive Classroom How To Wiki
  link

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Important Things Weve Learned

• The microphone is VERY important to your overall
  sound system. It MUST be charged overnight
  before its first use. The volume on the mic
  determines how high the wall panel volume will
  go. (Mic trumps wall panel.)
• If your mic is muted or set to a low volume, you
  will never get the full volume capability of the
  system even if you turn it up all the way at the
  wall.  To see if this is your problem, try the
  following.
• Turn the volume down at the wall-mounted control
  panel to the half-way point, or lower.
• Turn the volume up with the microphone to a
  comfortable level.
• Now, you should be able to increase the volume
  level using the wall-mounted controls.  You may
  want to turn off the mic first to prevent
  feedback.

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Problems with Remembering Autoconnecting to the
right board

• If you have not done so, locate the MAC address
  on your board. Since you cant look behind the
  board where the sticker is, you have to use our
  wiki page. Remember how to get there? Look back
  at slide 2.
• MAC addresses are listed by room number.  Locate
  yours, write it down and keep it in a safe place
  (like your handout!).

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When you return to your classroom, do the
following

• Open the Interwrite Device Manager. Click
  , then Devices OR
• Start-All Programs-Interwrite Learning-Interwrite
  Workspace-Device Manager
• Note the last 4 digits next to your listed
  board.  If those dont match the last 4 digits of
  your MAC address, click on the device, then click
  Remove.
• Click Find Bluetooth Devices.  Hopefully, you
  will see your board in the list (unless someone
  else is connected to it).  UNCHECK remember for
  every device that is NOT your board. (This is
  what has caused some folks to accidentally
  connect to other boards.)  Click OK.
• Click on your board to highlight it, then click
  Connect.  You should hear a beep when you
  connect.  If you arent sure if the board is
  yours, click the Beep button and listen.  If you
  dont hear the beep, you are connected to someone
  elses board.  Remove it from your list so that
  person can reclaim their board.

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Gain your freedom with the Interwrite Pad

• Bluetooth wireless device lets you teach from
  anywhere in the classroom (up to 300 feet!) or
  pass it to a student and let them contribute from
  their desk.
• An interactive pen provides full mouse capability
  (left and right click, drag and drop, etc.) when
  using the Interwrite Pad. The pen included with
  the Interwrite Pad is rechargeable and can also
  be used as an interactive pen with the Interwrite
  Board. (BOTH pad and pen must chargethey
  recommend 8 hours before first use.)
• 40 Hours of use between recharging

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Connecting Your Pad

• The device manager is the software utility
  that is used to connect your computer to your
  board and Interwrite SchoolPad. It uses
  Bluetooth technology to detect your devices.
  (That thingy in the back of your computer with
  the blue lightthats the Bluetooth dongleno
  playing with the dongle!...Dont even unplug it.
  He is monogamous and needs to stay in the same
  USB port.) To open the device manager, click the
  in the lower right of your screen, then
  Devices.

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Remembering the right pad

• This pad is listed as
• 6EA4.
• Look on the back of your pad at the sticker in
  the lower right corner.
• The last four digits here is how your pad will
  be listed.
• Uncheck every device that is not your pad, then
  click OK.

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Connecting

• Check the AutoConnect box.
• Click and highlight your pad.
• Click the Connect button.
• You should hear your low-to-high tones.

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Michelles fix for difficulty connecting

• If you are unable to connect, this fix has always
  worked for me ?
• Turn off the pad.
• Plug the power cord into the pad. Wait a sec.
• Turn on the pad.
• Click Connect.
• You should hear your low-to-high tone sequence.

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Sleep Mode

• Your pad will automatically go to sleep when not
  in use for 10 minutes to conserve power. You
  will hear warning tones, then the high-to-low
  tone disconnect sequence.
• Touch your pen to the connect dimple to wake the
  pad back up.
• You will hear the connect sequence.
• You can choose to power down
• by touching your pen to the power
• dimple. Turn the pad back on the
• same way.

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Properties

• Click to highlight your pad.
• Then click the Properties button.
• This allows you to adjust settings. You can see
  how much battery charge you have left also. Handy
  ?

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Fine-Tuning Your Double Click(they should call
it double tap)
-You can adjust settings for both your board and
pad. Below is what consistently works well for
me.
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Learning the Pad

• Absolute positioning vs the relative positioning
  of your mouse
• Watch the board, not the pad. Think like a
  gamerthey dont watch their controllers!
• To left click, just tap your pad.
• To double click, do a double tap.
• To right click, press the end
• closest to the top (eraser end).
• Pressing the end closer to the tip
• is like a normal left click.

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Interwrite Pad Softkeys
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ProgrammableSoftkeys
-Yep, programmable means you can change them (do
this through the softkey tab). You can then
design a customized insert for your pad and have
easy access to the tools YOU use most! On the
wiki, look under Advanced section for Design a
custom insert for your pad. (See handout of
available tools.)
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Hands-On Time

• Complete the steps on page 1 of your handout.
  Before we begin Please log in to a computer.
  Once the computer is finished booting up, plug
  the Bluetooth dongle into a USB port. Give it a
  second to recognize the dongle, then RESTART your
  computer and log in again. When you go back to
  your classroom, you wont need to do this because
  you already have a dongle. Before you leave
  today, please turn these back in.
• Important Bluetooth Dongle note

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Objective for Hands-On Time

• Successfully connect YOUR pad to the workstation
  you are sitting at.
• Use your pen as a mouse first before starting
  Workspace. Getting used to absolute positioning
  takes practice. Remember, watch the board. If
  you feel comfortable using it as a mouse, you may
  start Workspace in Interactive Mode. Once the
  last person connects and successfully uses the
  pen as a mouse, well move on

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Workspace Review

• One way to start Workspace is to tap the softkey
  right on your board or pad. Another easy way is
  to click the in the lower right corner of your
  screen. (If you dont see the icon, click
  Start-All Programs-Interwrite Learning-Interwrite
  Workspace-Device Manager.) Once you tap the
  icon, you see this pop-up
• Start Interactive or Office Mode
• Easy access to onscreen keyboard
• Easy to start recording your session

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Office Mode

• For those occasions when you would prefer to have
  the annotations become a part of the native file,
  use Office Mode. Office Mode allows you to
  interact directly with Microsoft Office
  applications PowerPoint, Word and Excel. Instead
  of annotating over a screen capture of a
  PowerPoint slide, for example, your annotations
  are added directly to the PowerPoint slide and
  become part of the PowerPoint presentation file.
  The same is true for annotations added to Word
  documents and Excel spreadsheets-- while in
  Office Mode they become part of the native
  application file, rather than being saved as a
  page in an Interwrite presentation file.

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Lesson Design

• Before we begin designing lessons, lets talk
  about creating folders to save your lessons to.
• (I highly recommend using a USB drive instead of
  My Documents or the C drive to save your lessons
  to.)
• Create a folder called LESSONS to save your
  lesson(s) to. I then create a folder for each
  lesson within the big LESSONS folder.
• If you plan on using several kinds of files in a
  lesson (links to movies, audio clips, office
  documents or .pdf files) copy those items inside
  your specific lesson folder.
• Use hyperlinks to the items (as opposed to
  actually embedding the files in your lessonsthis
  makes the lesson file huge and slow to open). I
  will show you how to make hyperlinks. ?

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Lesson Design

• Build your own calendar pages
• Customize your stamps for graphs/calendars/maps
• Image pagesmaps, cycles, music paper, periodic
  table, proofreading chart
• Grid pagesnotebook paper/charts
• Hyperlinks to other files
• Capturing/annotating web pages
• Record and playback!
• Have a goal of including multiple learning styles
  in every lesson visual (images/movies), auditory
  (link to audio clips), tactile (simulations),
  verbal (let kids record the movies talking
  through what they learned that day)
• Samples ?

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Hands-On Time

• Use your Interwrite Pad while you do these
  tasksjust for practice. ?
• If you have a USB drive with you and wish to save
  your work, feel free to do so.
• _____I created several slides with different
  content I can use in class.
• _____I added pictures to the stamps folder.
• _____I can create hyperlinks using text or
  images.
• _____I can capture a screenshot and annotate over
  it.
• _____I saved my Workspace file to a location I
  can reopen it from later.
• _____I can use my Interwrite Pad with Workspace.

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Recording Instructional Movies

• There are two ways to do this
• With See II software to show what you are doing
  under the camera, and
• with the Record feature of Interwrite Workspace
  to show what you are doing on the computer.
• You must use a mic plugged in to your computer to
  talk your way through your instructional movie.
  Your wireless mic will not record your voice.
• My favorite mic is attached to my computer
  headphones.

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See II Software

• All Programs-Lumens-See II

• Click Real Time to see camera view.
• Click Capture for still shots.

• Click Record for movies (.avi format). If you
  have an external mic or a headset with a mic
  plugged in, it will also capture your voice!
  This is awesome for absent students or prep for a
  sub!

One more note pressing the SOURCE button on the
camera while in See II will also show you full
screen view.
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Record and Playback

• To begin recording what you are doing on the
  computer, click , then Record and
  Playback.
• Your movie will be saved as an .avi file.
• I highly recommend saving to an external USB
  drive so as not to fill up your hard drive or My
  Documents.

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How do we share these movies?

• If they arent too large, send via email as an
  attachment (you may have to use non-school based
  email to send larger files).
• If they are too large to email, have you school
  webmaster upload them to your school web site.
• If you want to upload them yourself and send
  links to your students, sign up for a free
  www.podbean.com account.
• If you have students who want to be able to play
  your movie on a video iPod, use www.zamzar.com to
  covert your .avi to an .mp4 movie before
  uploading to podbean.

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Hands-On Time

• Since we cant use See II in this lab, use the
  Record feature of Workspace to record your
  actions on the computer. If you want to try
  recording your voice, use a headset with mic.
  Help yourself. ?
• So you can upload movies you or your students
  create, go ahead and sign up for a free account
  at www.podbean.com.
• This automatically creates an RSS feed people can
  subscribe to through iTunes (or other
  podcatchers). For example, our bgpurples feed
  is http//bgpurples.podbean.com/feed/