Greater web integration with the new version of SMART Notebook software

Collaborative solutions provider SMART Technologies has a new version of SMART Notebook collaborative learning software, offering new features that improve interactivity, creativity and efficiency.

SMART Technologies SMART Notebook collaborative learning software has been released 11. This new version of SMART Notebook will allow teachers to integrate online resources into SMART Notebook files, improving teaching and efficiency in classrooms. The new web search engine, integrated into the software, Enables teachers to directly enter a page from a browser into SMART notebook files. So, users can write, clever, drag and drop content onto the page. The version 11 includes widgets, like dictionaries and translators, that will make it possible to write questions, receive the answers and move them to the SMART Notebook software page.

An avatar widget will help teachers bring these dynamic, chatty personalities to SMART Notebook 11 and save them in the Gallery. Widgets can be downloaded from the SMART Exchange website , where teachers will find more than 51.000 resources and lessons, that can be used directly as SMART Notebook files 11. A software development kit for SMART Notebook gives educators and developers the ability to create an unlimited number of custom widgets for the web.. This new version will be available as a free download for those who have a SMART Notebook license.

More than six million teachers have activated SMART Notebook software to create engaging lessons that they enjoy more than 40 millions of students 175 countries around the world. The version 11 add new features, as more creative and efficient tools in order to increase interactivity. Students can become more engaged with tools that allow them to personalize interaction with the SMART Board interactive whiteboard.. The crayon feature makes it easy for students to create realistic pencil drawings on the interactive whiteboard.. Apart, Customizable creative marker allows individual markers to be built based on any image.

Better tools

New features help teachers create objects with activity thanks to the “build activity” that reacts to any action with animations or sounds carried out by students or teachers; which results in a more engaging interaction. The improvement of the contextual toolbar is that, when users choose certain objects, the bar also varies depending on these actions. So, a choice of required tools is offered. The function of restarting the page gives the SMART Notebook software the possibility of making everything return to its place at the end of the class and we can use the activity in the next class. SMART Notebook 11 also incorporates new gestures, support for SMART Board series four-touch interactive whiteboard 800 and with the SMART Board 8070i interactive device. SMART Notebook 11 es compatible con Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP and the Mac Snow Leopard and Mac OSX Lion operating systems.

Linda Thomas, Vice President of Product at SMART Technologies, has pointed: “SMART Notebook software is increasingly being used as a standard lesson creator and a way to bring content to every classroom in the world.. SMART Notebook 11 makes collaboration with online resources more interactive and comprehensive. So, Both teachers and students benefit. Which increases creativity so that students improve their engagement in learning”.

Features:
Activity creator.- Create active objects that react to actions with sounds or animations.
Built-in web search engine.- directly includes web browsers on SMART Notebook pages.
Improved contextual toolbar.- Responds to actions by giving users a choice of certain tools when they choose an object.
Colored pencils.- recreate colored pencil drawings on the SMART Board interactive whiteboard.
Personalized creative marker.- create a unique marker from any image.
Reset page.- make everything return to its place at the end of the class and we can use the activity in the next class.
Gesture recognition.- supports four-touch interactivity of the SMART Board series interactive whiteboard 800 and with the SMART Board 8070i interactive device. Also recognizes the new motion gesture to group or ungroup objects.
Audio recording.- record sounds directly to a file.
Filling the image shape.- resizes the image to match a specific shape.
Updated tables.- allows to transform, move and interact with tables more easily.
New text engine.- allows for improved text formatting and more consistency.
Attenuated paint.- any ink can be a lighter color.
Full page frame.- allows the distribution of the page borders to be visible.

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