Transcript Getting Started - Prairie Rose School Division No. 8

KS4 Chemistry
Getting Started
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What is Boardworks KS4 Chemistry?
Boardworks KS4 Chemistry is an educational package designed for
whole-class teaching on interactive whiteboards and projectors.
This PowerPoint presentation is a guide for teachers getting started
with the product, and covers common questions and technical advice.
If you haven’t used a Boardworks product before, it is recommended
that you start here.
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What is in the product?
Boardworks KS4 Chemistry is made up of three sections, each containing
several PowerPoint presentations as listed below:
Changing Materials
Useful Organic; Alkanes and Alkenes; Useful Rocks; Useful Metals;
Useful Air; Quantitative Chemistry; Earth and Atmosphere
Classifying Materials
Atomic Structure; Ionic Bonding; Covalent Bonding; Metallic Bonding;
Comparing Bonding
Patterns of Behaviour
Periodic Table; Noble Gases; Alkali Metals; Halogens; Transition Metals;
Chemical Reactions; Rates of Reaction; Biotechnology; Reversible Reactions;
Energy Transfer
For the full contents please view the contents document on the
Boardworks CD-ROM, which lists the learning objectives and details the
Flash activities in each presentation.
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How do I begin using the product?
To begin using the product, open the folder that contains the
presentation you wish to use and double-click on that file to open it.
Each presentation will open in “Slide Sorter” view.
To view the presentation as a slide show, select the “View” menu
and click on “Slide Show”, or click on the slide show icon at the
bottom left-hand corner of your screen.
Slide Show
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Are there any teachers’ notes?
This product does not contain hard-copy teachers’ notes.
Where a slide contains notes that are intended for teachers, an icon is
shown in the top right-hand corner, as above. These notes typically
include extra information or guidance on completing an activity.
You can view the notes during a slide show by right-clicking and
choosing “Speaker Notes”.
When not in “Slide Show” view, select the “View” menu and click on
“Normal”. You will see the notes relevant to that particular slide at the
bottom of the screen.
Alternatively, click the “Normal View” icon at the bottom-left of your
screen.
Normal View
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What about Flash interactivity?
This product contains interactive exercises designed in Flash,
a multimedia technology. To view the Flash-based content, you will need
to have the most recent version of Macromedia Flash player installed on
your computer. To ensure that you have the correct version, double-click
on the file ‘Install Flash Player 7 AX.exe’ included on the Boardworks
CD-ROM, and follow the on-screen instructions.
When you open a PowerPoint presentation, you may receive a warning
message saying that macros are present. These macros enable the
Flash to run and are safe to enable when using our products.
All slides containing Flash-based content have the Flash icon in the top
right-hand corner, as above. The Flash activities are not editable but can
be copied and pasted into other presentations, like other objects in
PowerPoint. All Flash activities are designed to be easy-to-use and selfexplanatory. In most activities the arrow button (
) resets the activity,
and the question mark button (
) provides extra help.
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How do I navigate through the presentations?
The majority of presentations are written in a linear manner for easy
navigation.
Like any other PowerPoint presentation, click on an empty area
of the screen to reveal the next object on that slide or to move forward
to the next slide.
Click on the purple arrows at the bottom left and right of the screen to
move forwards and backwards through the presentation.
The number of slides in the presentation is indicated in the bottom lefthand corner of the screen.
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Can I print from the presentations?
You can print all the slides in a presentation by clicking on the printer
icon.
You can print an individual slide by navigating to that slide, selecting the
“File” menu and clicking “Print”; in the “Print range” section of the popup
window, select “Current slide” and click “OK”.
You can print a selection of slides by selecting the “File” menu and
clicking “Print”; in the “Print range” section, select “Slides” and type in
slide numbers you want to print, and click “OK”.
If you want to print the notes that accompany a slide, select the “File”
menu and click “Print”; in the “Print what” section, select “Notes Pages”
from the first drop-down menu.
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Can I edit the presentations?
One of the major advantages of Boardworks KS4 Chemistry is that it
has been created in PowerPoint, which means it is editable. You are free
to use the standard PowerPoint functionality to edit the presentations,
including reordering, adding or deleting slides, adding or removing text, or
inserting your own activities or images. The only items that aren’t editable
are the Flash activities, but these can still be copied and pasted between
slides and presentations.
Many schools save the original version of the product on the network,
with teachers saving their own versions locally.
You can use any media in your own presentations for educational use
within the school that has bought the product, with the exception of
images that have a copyright line or other acknowledgement next to them;
we cannot grant copyright for these items as we have licensed from
another party and they must not be copied or edited in any way. If you
move to another school, you must remove any Boardworks media from
your own presentations. The Copyright Licence supplied on the CD-ROM
contains fuller details and takes precedence over this document.
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Can I give you feedback?
At Boardworks we are constantly striving to improve our products and
all feedback is very gratefully received. If you wish to comment on any
of the content in the product please contact us:
The Science Publisher
Boardworks Ltd
Oxford Centre for Innovation
Mill Street
Oxford
OX2 0JX
tel: 08703 50 55 60
fax: 08703 50 55 65
e-mail: [email protected]
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Thanks
Special thanks to the following organisations:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
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