Easy Notebook Access for Students!!!

Hello all,

Over the last few years I've been working on creating a library of Smartboard Notebook files to teach various grammatical concepts and to impart reading strategies in French. The only part that I needed to improve was having more kids interact on the Smartboard at one time. Solutions included:

a) Smartboard table: But was mostly used by kindergarten and really young kids, some of the files did not transfer successfully but worst of all was the limited ability of the class to view it. I suppose a work around could have been to hook up a projector to the table;

b) Notebook for Ipad: That's right it's out. However, its not very successful. There seems to be one particularly annoying glitch which is, once you upload a single file, it's the only one it'll run until you delete the app and re-install;

Finally, with one:one it looks like this may all be possible:

There is a website: http://express.smarttech.com/# which allows you to run Notebook files through the website.

Instructions:

1. Share a Notebook file with your students through google drive. Don't worry, you cannot preview notebook on google drive, but it still works
2. Have the students place the file that was shared with them into My Drive 
3. Tell your students to go to http://express.smarttech.com/# 
4. Next, they click on Open and Existing Notebook File
5. Next go to Google Drive in the Finder and select the file the teacher shared.

A New Year, A New Calendar

Welcome Back!

The transfer from our FileMaker calendar to the Prep School Events Google Calendar was made in July. Everything went smoothly and now we should only have one calendar to worry about.

You should already have the Prep School Events calendar listed in your Other Calendars section. If not, scroll to the bottom of this post for a video tutorial on how to add this calendar to your own.

We have done our best to build in an event approval process into this calendar as well. In the past, we would input all the details for an event into FileMaker and wait to see our event appear on the calendar if it was approved. Hopefully the process outlined here is fairly straightforward.

Adding an Event

This tutorial demonstrates the event approval process from choosing a time to having the event either approved or declined. The key steps involved are as follows:

• Find an appropriate time in the Prep School Events Calendar
• Add the event to your own calendar
• Invite the Prep School Events calendar (under rooms - uncheck the availability box)
• Add details in the description section or use the template
•  Wait for an email
• If approved - finalize your plans
• If declined, comments will be provided. Delete the event from your calendar and start again.

Viewing the Prep School Events Calendar

If you don't already have the Prep School Events Calendar (or the Holmes Lab or Library calendars), this tutorial can help you add them to your own calendar under the "other calendars" section. Remember, you can always turn these calendars on and off by clicking on the coloured box next to the calendar name.