SMART Board User’s Guide
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Presenting on the Interactive Whiteboard
The SMART Board interactive whiteboard can help to maximize the impact of your presentations. A variety
of features – both hardware- and software-based – make the job of delivering an interactive presentation
easy.
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Use Notebook software to create a presentation at your desktop computer. Store the
presentation on a disk, insert it in the computer attached to the interactive screen, and
display the file at your meeting in Full Screen view. Alternatively, make the file
accessible on your local area network.
Use SMART Board Tools
Use the Capture Screen or Capture Selection tools to capture the on-screen notes that you make as you
present.
Of course, Notebook software contains valuable tools to help you deliver your presentation.
Customizing the Notebook Interface
You can easily customize the Notebook interface to suit your changing needs. For example, when
developing presentation materials, use Notebook software in Normal rather than Full Screen view. All the
tools required to create, import and edit annotation objects are available in this view, making it the optimal
setting for creating or revising annotation objects − in other words, for creating presentations and taking
notes.
When it’s time to present that same material on the interactive screen, you may prefer to use the enlarged
viewing space of the Full Screen view, which is free of all toolbar clutter. Full Screen view maximizes the
available workspace on the screen.
As well, you can use the Scale to Fit view. This view enables you to see and use the entire canvas area at
one time. It has the effect of shrinking the canvas height and width while maintaining the correct aspect
ratio. This perspective can be used in either Normal or Full Screen view.
Because it has the effect of contracting the entire workspace to fit the dimensions of your particular display,
this feature is especially recommended for using Notebook software in a SMART Board in non-projected
mode. Scale to Fit is also very useful for compensating for resolution differences in displays.
For example, if a presentation created on a system with a 1024 x 768 pixel display is shown on a system
with a lower resolution display, such as 640 x 480 pixel display, some of the presentation may be lost in
Normal view. Scale to Fit view contracts the display to accommodate the entire workspace, making
differences in display resolutions inconsequential.
To activate Full Screen view
1 Select Full Screen from the View menu.
The Notebook interface enlarges, filling the entire screen, while the title and menu bars disappear.
Depending on your toolbar options, you can see or remove toolbars (see page 17).
2 To return to Normal view, press the Normal View button.
To activate the Scale to Fit view
1 Select Scale to Fit from the View menu.
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