Getting Started

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Getting Started

• Boardworks KS4 French

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What is Boardworks KS4 French?
Boardworks KS4 French is an educational package
designed for whole-class teaching on interactive
whiteboards and projectors. This PowerPoint
presentation is a teachers guide to getting
started with the product, and covers common
questions and technical advice. If you havent
used a Boardworks product before, it is
recommended that you start here.
Boardworks KS4 French consists of eleven
presentations. For the full contents of each
presentation please view the contents pdf
documents in the contents folder.
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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 the teacher, you will see an icon in
the top right-hand corner, as above. The notes
are contained within the notes field of the
slide. 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.
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What about the Flash interactivity?
This product contains many interactive exercises
designed in Flash, a multimedia technology.
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 PowerPoint.
All Flash activities should be easy-to-use and
self explanatory. In most activities the arrow
icon ( ) is the reset button, and the
question mark ( ) provides help should it be
needed.
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How do I hear the audio?
All audio 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. The
audio can be heard by using the sound players, of
which there are two (one for short clips and one
for long). Press play to start the recording,
pause to stop at any point, and rewind to return
to the beginning, either of the previous sentence
or the whole clip, depending on the type of sound
player.
play/pause
rewind to beginning of whole audio file
duration of recording
play/pause
rewind to beginning of whole audio file
rewind to beginning of previous sentence
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Which dictionary has been used?
The French spellings in the presentations should
all be consistent with The Oxford Hachette French
Dictionary.
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How do I navigate through the presentations?
Just like any other PowerPoint 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
wont miss any content. You can see how many
slides there are in the presentation by looking
in the bottom left-hand corner.
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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.
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Can I edit the presentations?
One of the major advantages of Boardworks KS4
French 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 arent 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.
Please see the EULA (End User Licence Agreement)
supplied with this product for details of our
licence conditions.
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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 do get
in touch The French Editor Boardworks
Ltd The Gallery 54 Marston Street Oxford OX4
1LF  tel [phone] fax [phone] e
editors_at_theboardworks.co.uk