Building Acrostic Poems Using Interactive Whiteboards
Tech Integration Classroom Project
Subject: Science
Platform:
Mac
Application: ActivInspire 1.4
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.
What's in a Project?
Each project provides:
- Project activity guide
- Copy of the completed project
- All the resources needed to recreate the example project
- Step-by-step tutorial movies that walk students through the project
- Assessment rubric
Example Project
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| 1. | What the example project looks like : opens video player dialogue | 83418 | ||||
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Information for Teachers
This project can be easily modified or adapted for other subject areas or other skill levels.
All example files, an assessment rubric, and information about adapting and extending the example project are included in the resource materials available for download with this 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 | |
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Starting a new flipchart
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online. 
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83406 | 01m:17s | |
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Switching between Primary & Studio Interface
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83407 | 01m:27s | |
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Switching to the Authoring profile
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83408 | 00m:47s | |
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Choosing a background image
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83409 | 01m:51s | |
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Adding the acrostic word
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83410 | 01m:20s | |
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Positioning & locking the acrostic word
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83411 | 01m:40s | |
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Saving the flipchart
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83412 | 00m:47s | |
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| Tutorial Number | Availability Status | Tutorial Title | Key # | Length | |
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| 1. | |
Adding the poetry text
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83413 | 01m:32s | |
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Formatting poetry text
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83414 | 01m:02s | |
| 3. | |
Duplicating & editing the text
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83415 | 01m:44s | |
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Changing the profile to present at the board
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83416 | 00m:55s | |
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Creating the poem
: opens dialogue
Beginning of dialogue content
Hmmmm. This video seems to be locked.If you believe you should have access, try logging in with your institution’s method of access before launching the video. (Still no luck? Give our support team a shout at 866.259.6890, ext. 8 or cs@hoonuit.com) If you don’t currently have access to Atomic Learning, you can request more information online.
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83417 | 00m:58s | |
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