SMART Notebook's Essentials for Educators Gallery now has 5395 items, including 218 Flash animations. Click on the Gallery tab and in the top navigation window, scroll down to "Essentials for Educators" to access this great collection of clipart for use in SMART Notebook. If you don't have "Essentials for Educators," you need to install it, and can download the PC or Mac version from SMART's website. You can click on the plus (+) in front of each folder to open it up, to view all available Gallery objects. In the lower Viewing box, there are blue bars "Related Folders" "Pictures and Backgrounds" "Interactive and Multimedia" "Lesson Activities" and "Notebook Files and Pages." Click on the white triangle (as shown here) to collapse any one of these areas.
To find the highly interactive Flash Gallery items, type "Flash" in the Gallery Search box and press Return/Enter on your keyboard or click on the Magnifying Glass search button to the right onf the Gallery Search box. If you have repositioned the SMART Notebook toolsbars at the bottom of the page, the search box will be below the Gallery windows. My favorite Gallery Flash items are Question and Answer and Timer, but they are all worth exploring.
Does essentials for educators update Smart Ideas 5 Concept Mapping as well?
Posted by: Justin | May 10, 2007 at 10:23 AM
All new SMART Ideas graphics from SMART’s website are available at:
http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/SMARTIdeas/SIv5clipart.htm
Thanks for asking, and good luck with your SMART Board.
Posted by: Mike Palecek | May 10, 2007 at 10:37 AM