Training

Promethean Planet

Promethean offers their engaging, interactive flipchart web content to nT users!   Logged in as a Teacher or Admin, enter your search term, such as “cells”, and check for Promethean resources under Collections in the right hand menu on the new netTrekker interface!

The resources on the flipcharts are produced by teachers for their pupils, but they are enabled to share through the Promethean Planet.  Since not every school owns whiteboards, teachers are very creative in utilizing good resources when they are pinching pennies.   Teachers can use the charts with other whiteboards or with a classroom projector and a $150.00 slate they pass around the room for student input.  Even though the students may not be getting their time at the front of the class, the slate enables them to circle, connect lines and click ahead through the charts.  

Many of the flipcharts are hands-on activities such as the one chart called “Rounding” and the one called, “Money”.  There are charts that address holidays with some great activities such as, “St. Patrick’s Day”.   The “Holidays Chronological Order” flip chart is a great way to introduce timelines.  Polygon Review is another flipchart which sums up information for the students.

Become an avid Promethean Planet user:

•  Selecting a Planet resource as a link in netTrekker will open a secondary browser window and send a netTrekker user to the landing page for the resource on the Planet website.  First time users who do NOT have Promethean’s software installed will need to download ActivInspire in order to open the flipchart.  There will be a link on the landing page to download the software.
•  Users who have installed previous versions of the software including Promethean’s ‘Flipchart Viewer’ or ‘ActivStudio/ActivPrimary’ (.flp) will be able to open files that were created using older versions of the software.  However, files that have been created using ActivInspire (.flipchart) can only be opened using ActivInspire.

  Put simply, ActivInspire will open any/all Promethean file types, whereas ActivStudio/ActivPrimary/Viewer will not open ActivInspire files.

  netTrekker users that subsequently arrive on Planet will be recognized as being referred from netTrekker and will be able download the first resource without having to login or sign-up for Planet membership.

• Subsequent navigation to other pages on the site that result in the user wanting to download additional resources will require Planet login or sign-up in order to complete the download process.

The Promethean resource is a valuable tool in today’s classrooms and is available to netTrekker users!