Student Editions
Wouldn’t it be great if you could save all the notes you had written on your interactive whiteboard during a lesson and then give it to the students to revise from? Or to give to students who missed the lesson? How handy would that be?
But did you know you can already do that?
Both Smart and Promethean have produced student editions of their software. These are cut-down versions which allow students to view the files you produce in a lesson.
Promethean’s ActivSoftware Student edition can be downloaded here.
Smart Notebook Student Edition can be downloaded here.
Both versions are free to use, and your students are licensed to use the software as long as your school has purchased the corresponding IWBs
All you need to do is come up with a way of giving that file to the students. If you have a shared area on your network you could save your file to that. Name it accordingly (Teacher name, class and date would be good) and then students can take it home on a USB stick or email it themselves. Alternatively you could put the file up onto the school VLE if you have one.
Both Promethean and Smart software also lets you export files in PDF or PowerPoint format - if you just want students to have a static record of the lesson notes. Because you’re dealing in digital files it can be easily shared
This is a very handy way of making your lesson notes available to your students after the lesson. Try it now!
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