Easiteach tutorial

1. ”Using Easiteach to Design
Interactive Activities"
November, 2014
SofíaVelázquez Ramírez Llaca

2. Program
1st part: 15 min.
• Message fromtheTechnology 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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3. a. Introduction
• What is Easiteach?
• Why use Easiteach?
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4. 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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5. 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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6. d. Online Resources
Activities in .ink format
can 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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7. Tools
Easiteach 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 fromMy Files
• Importing images
• Sound and video recording
Widget bank
• Adding and using widgets
Plus:
• Accelerator menu functions
• Saving as PDF (to print)

8. Adding pictures
from 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 on
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9. Accelerator menu
• Provides easy access
to the properties of
the object selected.
• Themenu changes
depending on the
object selected.
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10. 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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11. PRACTICE
• Design an interactive activity for your class
using Easiteach.
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12. SHARING
• Show and explain your activity to the rest of
the teachers.
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