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SMART Fridays 11/16/2018
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SMART LAB 'Shout it Out!' Activity
Students use the Shout It Out! activity to quickly create and contribute text and images to SMART lab content-creation activities using their own device. Shout It Out is a great tool to engage your students. Some possible uses include: brainstorming, asking students to infer similarities and differences, provide operational definitions to vocabulary words, report lab work, reflect on learning or group work, make predictions and more.
To add a Shout It Out! activity
Open SMART lab by pressing the SMART lab toolbar icon in the Notebook toolbar. The Add an activitywindow opens.
Scroll to locate the Shout It Out! activity and press Add this Activity.
The Shout It Out! Choose design page opens. Select the theme you would like to use. You can choose from either the Arranged Randomly theme or the Categorized theme.
Click Next.
The Add content page opens. If you selected Categorized placements, at least two categories are required for the activity.
In Contribution Categories, give names to the categories to contain student contributed content.
In Acceptable Contributions, choose from Text or Images contribution types.
Enter the maximum number of text and image contributions per device.
Press Off or On under Display contributor names to select whether contributor names will be displayed.
Press Next. The Add game components dialog box opens. Select an optional game component if desired.
Press Finish.
SMART lab builds the activity, and it will be ready for use after a few moments.
To start a Shout It Out! Activity
After you have created a Shout It Out! activity, confirm that the Display Contributor Names and Contributions per Device settings are correct.
Press Start Activity.
The SMART lab Student Contribution Activity dialog window appears. It includes the classlab.com URL that students will enter into their browsers, and the Activity Code number students will enter on the SMART Notebook lesson activity builder website. The activity icon turns green to indicate that an activity is currently in progress.
Direct students to classlab.com and have them enter the Activity Code number and their names. Students are connected to the activity.
Student contributions will appear in the Notebook SMART lab page