My favorite tools so far...
- Timer/Clock: I was using the timer found in the shared resources, but found out about the clock in today's Module 3/4 training. The clock is found on the menu bar under "tools" then "more tools". You can display an analog and/or a digital clock. You can also have it count down like a stopwatch and then repeat automatically, or perform an action after the countdown, like move to the next slide. Very basic and very useful.
- Resource Browser: I honestly think that Smart Technologies does this better than Promethean (it may be the only thing), but I DO love the resource browser. I can find gadgets like timers, dice and backgrounds. Some of my favorites are the paper backgrounds. I can make the board look exactly like my students' science notebooks and model how I want them to create entries. I just found out that there are more resources to be downloaded at Promethean Planet, I will download them on Monday and maybe it will be even better.
- Desktop Annotation: I don't use it everyday, but when I need it I like how convenient this feature is. I have been using it to annotate over math websites to demonstrate how to play math online activities and to annotate over maps to demonstrate scale. The ability to save these annotations using the camera tool makes it extremely powerful.. I'm just not there yet.
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This is actually question 4, Jeff. Don't forget to post question 3. :)
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