Tips, Tricks, & Techniques (Harvey Almarode)

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Use VISUALs!
brainrules.net John Medina--book on brain, chapter 10 on visuals & how brain reacts

use of cartoon figures/visuals
buildyourwildself.com--take kids to lab have them create their own wildself & use those in your presentations (kids will love seeing their characters)

Phillip Martin--free clip art
http://www.phillipmartin.info/clipart/homepage.htm

32-36 pt font for best viewing of text
we pay attention to color, size, orientation, movement
-erase to reveal

1) Use LOTs of VISUALs
engage students from the title page!
Quadrilateral Family Reunion

(google: cartoon eyeballs)

2) Customize your SB Toolbar!
--fill shape objects with color (then you don't have to click right on the edge of the shape)
save tool properties button at bottom of properties tab after you use solid fill

3) Share it forward!
Put lessons on SMART exchange; Jim Hollis The Notebook Gallery (formerly teachers love smartboards)

4) Beware of amount of FLASH files; use sparingly so it doesn't bog down

5) Alignment blue lines to line things up in your lessons (Format | Alignment | show guides for active objects & snap objects to grid | Apply to settings

6) Clear ink & clear page icons on toolbar

7) Group objects & resize so all objects are resized proportionally

8) Use pull tabs for step directions so you don't take up room on the board (24-36 pt font)
--use your own graphics for pull tabs--google "cartoon pull tabs"; pull guy, paint roller

9) Utilize, use & organize MY CONTENT in Gallery--go only one folder deep in My Content

10) Use ANIMATIONS:
-birds on a wire!
-Petals around the Rose game...animated dice
-hundreds chart (missing numbers)
-reveal from under the microscope

10) LESSON ACTIVITY TOOLKIT
-checker tool
-dice w/ images
-dice w/ text
-firecracker

11) Purple rectangle reveal...
flip purple rectangle over bottom axis to reveal text in same color as background; text in front; rectangle behind

12) Oh Great Swami...
Magic tunnel--two colors of text with image in between to hide screen color divide
Use school mascot as your image in middle

13) Telling time lesson w/ broken clock

14) Interactive Ten frame

15) Large table cell
-word families
-butterfly life cycle (shrink & grow)

16) boring random number generator (lesson activity toolkit) with an image surrounding it to make it more appealing

17) Lesson Activity Builder--puzzle icon tab
Which cube weighs the most on scales?
dragging cubes--light bulbs happy/sad
Puppy Patterns...complete the pattern
Magic Mirror (work in progress)

Beginning sounds kindergarten file