When you play your United Streaming videos, do you ever stop the video to discuss content, the image, or wish you could annotate over it? Next time try playing your video clip with the SMART Video Player. Here's what to do.

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Download the United Streaming clip. As always, please download this to your computer's hard drive - that would be your desktop or your My Documents, not your H Drive.

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Open the SMART Video Player. It can be found by going to Start, Programs, SMART Board Software, then SMART Video Player.

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Open the saved video clip. Go to File, Open, then navigate to the location of the downloaded video. The video will open and begin playing.
 

So, what's the advantage of this process of viewing videos?

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You can annotate on the video. Once you pick up a stylus, the video will stop allowing you to make your annotations.

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Annotations can be captured. After making the annotations, click the capture icon (the camera) and the image from the video with your annotations will go straight to Notebook.

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Notebook files with the captured images can be saved. This allows for an easy way to revisit the content without showing the video clip again.

Do you have any students who are homebound, have been out sick or parents wondering how to help their child with work from your class? Would a recorded example of classwork help? Notebook has a SMART Recorder that might help. Here's what to do:

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Open the SMART Recorder. This can be found by going to Start, Programs, SMART Board Software, SMART Recorder or launching it from the Start Center tool bar.

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A small recording window will launch. Click the record button (red dot).

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Once you are recording, everything will be recorded - opening documents, annotations, navigations, etc. So now is the time to illustrate what you want recorded.

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Once you have completed the series of events to be recorded, click the stop button (blue square).

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Save your recording to either you desktop or My Documents. By default it will save as the date, so be sure to rename it.

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After saving the recording, you might want to burn it to a CD so you can send it home with your students.