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Week 1
Becoming familiar with the tools in the SMART Notebook software [|Training File Week 1 - The Basics]

Week 2
Exploring the Gallery and the Screen Capture Tool [|Training File Week 2 - the Gallery] [|Week 2 Challenge]

The following files include more examples of interactive Flash files from the Gallery which can be edited. Each page includes the name of the object in the Gallery so you'll know what to search for.

[|General Flash Examples] (can be used for any subject area) [|Math Flash Examples] [|Language Arts Flash Examples] [|Music Flash Examples] [|General Tools Examples]

The Capture Toolbar (camera icon) makes it easy to grab pictures from anywhere and add them to your Notebook file. Click the following link for a pdf file explaining how to use it. [|The Screen Capture Toolbar]

Easily add those screen captures or other objects to the gallery so you can use them again. Here's how: [|Working with the My Content Folder in the Gallery]

Now that you're familiar with the tools and the gallery, we are going to spend lots of time exploring files that have been shared by other SMART Board users. Hopefully, you'll find ideas that you will be able to incorporate into your own Notebook lessons to use with your students.
 * Week 3**

Begin with the Curriculum Areas page, select your subject, and explore. When you find something you like, save the file to your computer and edit as desired. Then be sure you upload something to your page on the wiki to share!

New video showing how to copy a page from one file to another.

Working with Tables [|Training File - Tables] [|Attendance File]
 * Week 4**

[|Object Animation Training] Check out the templates on the Games page! This week we'll also be sharing favorite interactive sites and Notebook files.
 * Week 5**