About This Guide - Smart Technologies Smart Board User Manual

About This Guide

As you read through this guide, you'll be pleased to learn that the SMART Board interactive
whiteboard lets you do a lot more than control your computer via the board's touch-sensitive
surface and write over top of projected applications in electronic ink.
The SMART Board interactive whiteboard is packed with features that'll make your next
presentation truly powerful. When you connect the interactive whiteboard to your computer
and an LCD projector, you can:
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Create and edit a wide variety of annotation objects with the Pen Tray styluses, the
Floating Tools or SMART Notebook  software commands.
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Capture an image of that annotation into SMART Notebook software with the press of
a toolbar button.
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Use SMART Recorder (Windows operating system only) to create a video file of
everything you do on a interactive whiteboard, no matter which application you're
using. If you have a microphone, you can also include audio in sync with the data.
•
Use SMART Video Player (Windows operating system only) to annotate over moving
or still video from sources such as VCRs, document cameras and computer files.
Saving annotations automatically sends a screen capture to SMART Notebook
software.
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Save, print or e-mail a complete record of everything written, drawn or typed into
SMART Notebook software. You can even save your Notebook file as a PDF file, a
series of image files or HTML files (Windows operating system only), that others can
view via their Web browser.
• Use an on-screen keyboard to enter text right at the interactive whiteboard surface
without using a conventional, physical keyboard.
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Use the handwriting recognition feature to convert your handwritten text into
typewritten text (Windows operating system only).
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Import information from almost any electronic source into SMART Notebook software.
•
Use touch shortcuts to breeze through your PowerPoint software presentation at the
interactive whiteboard.
While the SMART Board interactive whiteboard is an easy, natural tool that requires no
special expertise to use, this guide covers the complete range of interactive whiteboard
functionality so you can take full advantage of every feature.
The pages that follow are organized around the typical tasks performed before, during and
after an interactive whiteboard presentation. You'll learn how to create Notebook files (and
annotation objects within those files), import information from other sources, and then sort
and edit file contents.
You'll also learn how to print and send Notebook files, and the most effective ways of using
your interactive whiteboard during a presentation. Instructions for using several third-party
conferencing, presentation and graphics applications as board-aware programs on the
interactive whiteboard are also provided. The guide concludes with customer support
information and details on using the interactive whiteboard without a projector.
Preface
Board-Aware
You'll find this term used
throughout this guide. It
describes applications
that can be changed by
your actions on the
interactive whiteboard.
When you write on the
board over a projected
board-aware program,
what you write can be
saved into that program.
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