Getting Started 1 of 13 Boardworks Ltd 2010

Getting Started 1 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

What is Boardworks KS 4 ICT? Boardworks KS 4 ICT is an educational package designed for whole-class teaching on interactive whiteboards and projectors. This Power. Point presentation is a teacher’s guide to 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. 2 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

What is in the product? Boardworks KS 4 ICT consists of 13 units with 72 full presentations, which have been split into smaller presentations. The product covers the new 2010 GCSE specifications. For the full contents, please view the contents documents. Full mapping documents are also available. 3 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

How do I begin using the product? To begin using the product, just open the folder that contains the presentation you wish to open and double-click to open it. Each presentation will open in Slide Sorter view. To view the presentation as a Slide Show, click on View, Slide Show, or click on the slide show icon at the bottom left-hand corner of your screen. Slide Show View 4 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

Are there any teacher’s notes? This product does not contain hard-copy teacher’s notes. Where a slide contains notes that are intended for the teacher, you will see an icon in the top right-hand corner, as above. These notes typically include guidance on completing an activity, extra information or ideas for differentiating an activity. When you see the WWW icon, as above, the notes include a relevant web address. While all care is taken to ensure web links contain useful information, Boardworks does not take responsibility for the content or accuracy of external web sites. To view the notes, end the slide show if you are in Slide Show view, and then go to View, Normal, and you should see the notes field at the bottom of the page. Another way of moving back to Normal View is to click on the icon at the bottom-left of your screen, as below. Normal View 5 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

What about worksheets? Most presentations have accompanying worksheets, and where this is the case you will see a computer and folder icon in the top -right hand corner of relevant slides, as above. Details of the accompanying worksheet are supplied in the notes section for that Power. Point slide and the worksheets themselves can be found in the same folder as the Power. Point file. Worksheets are supplied as editable Word documents. Many presentations are also accompanied by extension worksheets to support higher ability students. 6 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

What about the Flash interactivity? This product contains many interactive exercises designed in Flash, a multimedia technology. In order to view the Flash, you will need to have the most recent version of Macromedia Shockwave player installed. You may already have this on your machine; to ensure you have the correct version, double-click on the file install_flash_player_10_active_x. msi on the CD-ROM. Depending on the level of Power. Point security, you may receive a message warning you that macros are present in the product. These macros enable the Flash to run and it is safe to enable them when using our products. Any slide which contains Flash will have the Flash icon in the top right-hand corner, as above. The Flash activities are not editable, although they can be copied and pasted into other presentations, like other objects in Power. Point. All Flash activities should be easy-to-use and self explanatory. In all activities the arrow icon ( ) is the reset button, and the question mark ( ) provides help should it be needed. 7 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

Audio and video All audio and video is embedded within Flash. Where audio is included on a slide you will see a speaker icon in the top right hand corner, as above. Where a video is included on a slide you will see a film icon, as above. The audio can be heard by using the sound player. Press play to start the recording, pause to stop at any point, and rewind to return to the beginning. play/pause reset draggable progress bar duration of recording 8 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

How do I move to the next slide? Just like any other Power. Point presentation, you can click on any empty area of the screen to bring on-screen the next object or move forward to the next slide. You can click on the back arrow at the bottom-left of each screen to go back through the slides. The coloured forward arrow at the bottom-right of the screen only appears when all objects on a slide have been revealed, so you won’t miss any content. You can see how many slides there are in the presentation by looking in the bottom left-hand corner. 9 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

Can I print from the presentations? You can print all the slides in a presentation by simply clicking on the printer icon; alternatively, you can print single slides by navigating to that slide, clicking on File, Print, and checking the “Current slide” option. If you want to print the notes page that accompanies a slide, change the “Print what” option to “Notes Page”. 10 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

Can I edit the presentations? One of the major advantages of Boardworks KS 4 ICT is that it has been created in Power. Point which means it is editable. You are free to use the standard Power. Point 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, and 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. Unless copyright is stated on the slide or in the notes field, you can use any media in your own presentations for educational use within the school that has bought the product. You must remove any media from your own presentations if you move to another school. However, we cannot grant copyright for items that we have licensed from another party; these can be identified by the copyright line on the slide. The Copyright Licence supplied on the CD-ROM contains fuller details and takes precedence over this document. 11 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

Minimum system requirements Minimum system specification Microsoft Windows Me, 2000, XP Home/Professional, Vista 1 GHz processor (Intel Pentium/Celeron family or AMD Athlon/Duron family) 128 MB RAM 270 MB available hard disk space 16 -bit colour monitor and video adapter capable of 800 x 600 resolution CD-ROM drive Windows compatible sound card (where sound playback is required) Software requirements Microsoft Power. Point 2000, XP (2002), 2003 or 2007 Macromedia Flash Player 10 or later (included on CD-ROM) PDF file reader (Adobe Reader included on CD-ROM) 12 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010

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 do get in touch: The KS 4 ICT Editor Boardworks The Gallery 54 Marston Street Oxford OX 4 1 LF tel: 08703 50 55 60 fax: 08703 50 55 65 e: editors@boardworks. co. uk 13 of 13 © Boardworks Ltd 2010