Thursday, August 29, 2013

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.



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