This document provides an overview of an interactive activity assignment using Smart Notebook where students will create an interactive matching, sorting, or categorizing activity appropriate for their future classrooms. It suggests posting the Smart Notebook file to an ePortfolio page along with a description of the educational value of interactivity. It also outlines a demonstration of the Smart Notebook Activity Builder tool and what makes an activity interactive through student interactions like clicking, dragging, dropping, typing, and drawing with software response.

1. TIP#15: INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY
WITH SMART NOTEBOOK
EDUC W200 Week 15

2. OVERVIEW
• In a group, create, or adapt, an interactive activity appropriate
for the following situation with the Smart Notebook.
o Situation: For your future students, create a simple example of an
interactive Smartboard activity
(e.g., matching/sorting/categorizing activity).
o Some examples from Smart Exchange
• Post it to ePortfolio > NETS-T page as an evidence (suggestion:
towards Standard 2a) by attaching the *.notebook file at the
bottom of the webpage.
• Description of the evidence should guide viewers to be able to
download the *.notebook file and address the educational
value of the interactive component in your activity.
EDUC W200 Week 15

3. ULA DEMO: USING THE ACTIVITY BUILDER
• What do you mean by “interactive”?
o Students should be able to click/drag&drop/type/draw…
and get response/feedback from the software.
• Job-aids on Smart Notebook
o Basic Interface
o Activity Builder
o Smart Response System
o Publishing to Smart Exchange
EDUC W200 Week 15