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Before you begin the transfer process, consider what you want out of your finished product.
Before you begin the transfer process, consider what you want out of your finished product.
1. Determine the purpose of the flipchart content
1. Determine the purpose of the flipchart content
- Share content or information with students
- Co-construct ideas with students (brainstorming, mind-mapping, shared writing, etc.)
- Shared practice of taught skills
2. Consider what, if any, level of interactivity you want to maintain:
2. Consider what, if any, level of interactivity you want to maintain:
- Explain Everything: Annotate directly on a slide and annotations can be saved; Objects can be added and moved (export as PDF)
- Keynote: Annotate directly on a slide, annotations disappear; Animations and slide transitions can be added (export as JPG)
- Nearpod: Students interact with content on their individual devices; Interactive question types available (export as JPG)
- Google Slides: Content is static, but you can write over content on the whiteboard (export as JPG)
3. Decide if it is better to transfer or recreate your work.
3. Decide if it is better to transfer or recreate your work.
- Transfer: When interactivity is non-essential, or does not add value to the learning experience
- Recreate: When interactivity is essential, OR when you plan to make significant revisions to your content
Once you've made some decisions about whether or not you want to do a direct transfer of your existing flipcharts, it's time to start the process. Use the flowchart, along with the series of video links below to guide your work.
Once you've made some decisions about whether or not you want to do a direct transfer of your existing flipcharts, it's time to start the process. Use the flowchart, along with the series of video links below to guide your work.
- How and why to create a new copy of your flipchart
- How to determine if your flipchart has interactive features, and how to decide if you want to keep them.
- How to prepare a flipchart for transfer if you need to delete interactive features
- How to export your flipchart as PDF or JPG and how to decide on a format
- How to upload a PDF or JPG of your flipchart to Drive
- How to convert JPG to Google Slides for easy use in Nearpod or Keynote (watch if you plan to move to Nearpod or Keynote!)
- Moving your flipchart to Nearpod
- Moving your flipchart to Explain Everything
- Moving your flipchart to Google Slides
- Moving your flipchart to Keynote
How to transfer a Activinspire Flipchart to
How to transfer a Activinspire Flipchart to
Explain Everything or Nearpod
Explain Everything or Nearpod
- Make a folder on your computer named flipcharts in your documents
- Find your flipchart in activinspire
- Make a new copy and save in flipchart folder
- Delete any annotations, shapes, movable features to make a fresh template
- Click SAVE
- Now, go to File > Export > all pages > PDF (OR File > Print > ALL pages > Export to PDF)
- Save that in your flipchart folder
- Make a new folder in google drive named FLIPCHARTS
- Upload the PDF into the new google flipchart folder
- Decide:
a.) if you want this to be displayed on the screen and controlled by teacher iPad = Explain Everything
b.) if you want every student to have a copy of this on their device = Nearpod
EXPLAIN EVERYTHING
- Open Explain Everything
- Click the PLUS sign
- Select a blank template color
- Click the plus sign on the left
- Select PHOTO > VIDEO or File
- Select Gdrive > My Drive > flipchart folder and choose the PDF
- After it loads select “choose” on top right
- You may have to drag the content to reposition
- Add any interactive parts (boxes, shapes, etc.)
- Click the down arrow on the bottom right
- Name the project
- Hit save
- Click the up arrow (share-ow)
- Switch the bar on top to project
- Click Gdrive > make sure correct folder > Export
- Now you have a brand new Explain Everything project on your Gdrive and Explain everything
NEARPOD (Access from your computer or iPad)
- Login to Nearpod
- Click CREATE
- Click Upload Files (bottom center)
- Choose Google Drive
- Search for PDF (type .pdf in search to pull up ALL PDFs) and double-click on it
- *Select SLIDES to put each page on a separate slide
- After it processes and loads, click UNTITLED to rename it
- To add interactivity, you can add an Activity i.e. Draw, Quiz, Poll, Open ended question, Collaborate, etc.
Not sure where to start? Use the flowchart to help!
Not sure where to start? Use the flowchart to help!
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