The document provides instructions for using software on an interactive whiteboard for teaching. It describes the navigation buttons and explains how to access presentations, activities, videos and notes. It also provides general tips for using the whiteboard such as brainstorming, taking notes, and reinforcing skills through interactive websites.

1. Instructions
Software for
Interactive Whiteboards

2. Instructions
Software for Interactive Whiteboards
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3. Contents
Let’s start 2
General Navigation 3
Presentations 4
Activities 5
Videos 7
Notes 8
General Tips 9

4. Instructions
Let’s start
The contents screen is very easy to use and navigate. The only thing that you have
to do is to choose a unit you want to go to and simply press on it with the stylus.
Press on the unit
On the contents screen, you
will also find the ‘exit’ button.
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5. Software for Interactive Whiteboards
General Navigation
In the main program the buttons you will find are:
Previous page button
Next page button
Contents button
Stop button
Show text button
Vocabulary button Start and pause narrate button
Press on the ‘left’ or ‘right’ button to navigate to the next or previous page of the
program.
If you press the ‘show text’ button the texts and bubbles in the presentations
will appear, if you press either of these buttons again the texts and the bubbles
disappear. With these buttons you can hear and read the text of the lesson.
When you press the ‘vocabulary’ button, a pop up window will appear where you
can search for the achive words (vocabulary) from the specific lesson. Press the
stylus onto a word and you will hear it being pronounced, the purpose of this it to
enable the Ss to listen to and repeat the desired word. To go back to the previous
page, press on the ‘back’ tab on the upper right corner of the pop up window.
If you want to listen to the presentation or an exercise, press on the ‘narrate’ button.
If you press the button a second time the recording will pause.
Note: The sound is not stopped, and you cannot press any other button. If you want
to stop the sound so that you can continue with the unit, then press the ‘stop’ button.
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6. Instructions
Presentations
The presentations appear with no text as there needs to be an analysis of
the pictures and discussion with the Ss in order to ensure that they have
a clear understanding of the story. Ss could be asked to guess and write
what the characters may be thinking.
Press on the ‘narrate’ button to hear the
recording of the presentation without seeing the
text. With this students can benefit from listening
to the text without the use of writing or reading.
Press the ‘show text’
button for the text to
appear
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7. Software for Interactive Whiteboards
The sentences / bubbles are highlighted the moment they are heard. When
you are reading the text you have the option of hearing a particular sentence
or word by pressing on to that specific part.
Activities
All the activities include answers. To find the answers, press on the area
where the answer should be.
The answer can be a text, a shape, like a circle, or a symbol.
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8. Instructions
The answers to activities
need to be solved by the
teacher. Using the stylus
of the whiteboard, the
teacher can complete the
activity. There is usually
a small sign on the
bottom right hand corner
in this case.
Another sign that you will come
across is the one of a key. If
you press on it the answers of
the activity will appear.
The difference between the key
sign and the others is that the
key ‘unlocks’ all the answers at
once, instead of one at a time.
The activities such as gap filling, matching, and multiple choice etc, can be
dealt with as a whole class activity. The teacher can ask Ss to label pictures,
draw lines for matching activities, change or add words, write sentences
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9. Software for Interactive Whiteboards
Videos
To watch the video press the ‘narrate’
button, the video will appear in a full
screen mode and you will see two new
buttons, the ‘pause’ and the ‘close’
button. Press the ‘pause’ button to
freeze the video or press the ‘close’
button to close the video and return to
the previous screen.
In some series, the functionality differs. For example in ‘Channel your English’ you
can read the dialogue while watching the video.
If you press the ‘show text’ button you
can see the text of the video, and while
the video is being played the text scrolls
in sync with it.
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10. Instructions
Notes
You can also use the interactive whiteboard as a normal whiteboard in order to write
notes etc.
Press the ‘F1’ button and the white screen will
appear. With the use of the whiteboard stylus
you can write notes and ideas on this ‘page’.
If you press the ‘esc’ button you return
to the previous screen.
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General Tips
You can also use your whiteboard to:
Brainstorm
Take notes
Reinforce skills by using on-line interactive web sites
Use the highlighter tool to highlight parts of speech such as
nouns, verbs etc
Complete charts
Encourage Ss’ participation by allowing them to write what
they have learned
Play songs or videos
Execute effective listening activities etc
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