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Screen Capture: Liven up Diagrams - Screen Capture or Import your resource to Explain Everything or the Promethean Whiteboard Make sure your resource has text answers.
Cloud Connect or Import: Fill in the Blank - Select the pen icon from your toolbar. Change the pen color to match the background of your picture. Then, color over the answers to “white them out”
Explain Everything & Promethean Whiteboard: Morning Prompts, Content Review, Surprise Learning Menu or Activities - When wanting to engage with the resource, change the pen color and have students use their finger to fill in their thoughts. When ready to reveal, select the eraser icon from the toolbar to erase the student writing and the “white out” to reveal the correct answer/thought.
Screen Capture, Cloud Connect to Import, and Chromium: Student Races - Screen Capture, Import your resource, use a blank canvas page on Explain Everything or the Promethean Whiteboard, or find a pre-made resource at your KCS Resource Site.
Explain Everything & Promethean Whiteboard: Group Debates - Select the dual user mode from the whiteboard toolbar.
Spinner, Timer, and Promethean Account Sign-In: Matching or Prompts - Open up to 4 spinners, 8 timers, or a combination of both to add an element of student interaction. Use the topics below to help create your custom lists.
Spinner Ideas:
- Math equations
- Student names
- Gameboards
- Labeling
- Vocabulary
- Writing prompts
- SEL: This or that
- Student races
- Pairings/groups
Timer Ideas:
- Relays
- Bathroom click
- Presentation timer
- Transitions
- Time on task
- Bell ringers