Using Desktop Annotate to interact with websites and/or images from the document camera

Creating containers that provide corrective feedback to students as a learning center

Using Pen tool to hide answers and allowing students to “rub and reveal” the answer with the eraser

Using the Extract Text feature or paint can function within a text box (not locked) to teach note taking techniques, synthesis strategies, and vocabulary study

Create digital storybooks that allow for interactive reading strategies, word prediction, parallel writing activities, etc.

Embedding video clips within a flipchart to allow for still images to be captured while viewing the video content (can then be used for sequencing activities, labeling an image, creating a background image, etc.)

Using the screen recorder tool to capture a mini-lesson for replay or remediation; having students use the screen recorder tool to develop instructional tutorials or to capture metacognition during problem solving

Using the Caption Tool to provide “tooltips” with vocabulary support for ELL students or modern foreign language students

Using the Camera Tool to embed student pictures or work samples into daily instruction and instructional examples

Creating an Essential Questions page of your unit’s flipchart in order to add ideas, information, and responses throughout the unit of study (think of creating a Math Graffiti wall of sorts)

Explore the Activities and Templates area of the Shared Resources to identify graphic organizers that scaffold your lesson and save time in lesson development

Add User Defined Buttons to programs, URLs, or documents that you refer to often throughout a unit of instruction (either via the Edit Profiles area or by dragging a commonly used item to the main toolbox)

Create your own Resource Packs with helpful images, resources, sound files, etc. and share with others (Right-click on Resource Packs folder and Add folder. Simply drag your content into your new folder)

Use your flipchart as a lesson facilitator – focus on student collaboration and cognitive demand for your lessons rather than teacher-directed instruction and presentation