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Lesson Accelerator: Project Launcher

Building Acrostic Poems Using Interactive Whiteboards
Application: ActivInspire 1.4
Platform: Mac

Description

The process for creating the example project using ActivInspire® is described below. The Completed Project Movie shows what the finished product might look like. The tutorial movies that follow demonstrate, step-by-step, how to construct an interactive whiteboard activity for building acrostic poems. This project can be easily modified or adapted for other subject areas or other grade/skill levels. For a complete project description, including goals, objectives, and materials, see the Project Overview.
The Example Project
The Completed Project movie will show you what the completed example project looks like.
expand  Completed Project Movie
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. preview What the example project looks like 83418 1:09
Subscribers have access to download the resource materials for this project, which includes all example files, an assessment rubric, and information about adapting and extending the example project.
Creating Your Own Project
We will begin by creating a new flipchart in ActivInspire. We’ll learn how to switch between the Primary and Studio interfaces, in order to accommodate different user preferences, as well as how to switch between different user profiles for creating the flipchart and presenting at the board. We'll add a background image to the flipchart and text for our foundational acrostic word. We'll learn how to lock elements on the page so that they can't be modified. Then, we'll add lines of text that represent possible poetry lines for each letter in the acrostic word. This is a fun, interactive, and creative way to demonstrate what we’ve learned about a topic.
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Starting a new flipchart 83406 1:17
2. locked Switching between Primary & Studio Interface 83407 1:27
3. locked Switching to the Authoring profile 83408 0:47
4. locked Choosing a background image 83409 1:51
5. locked Adding the acrostic word 83410 1:20
6. locked Positioning & locking the acrostic word 83411 1:40
7. locked Saving the flipchart 83412 0:47
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Adding the poetry text 83413 1:32
2. locked Formatting poetry text 83414 1:02
3. locked Duplicating & editing the text 83415 1:44
4. locked Changing the profile to present at the board 83416 0:55
5. locked Creating the poem 83417 0:58
Tutorial series by Tabitha Wiedower
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