Activ Primary 3

Many schools with Activ Primary are upgrading to version 3.The enhanced features and the ease of use makes this well worth the upgrade. The two key things which standout for me are the flip chart builder and the resources packs.

The flipcahrt builder make creating flipcharts a lot easier and manageable than in previous versions, an there are also some very good templates that are just waiting to be filled with text or images. Images, videos and backgrounds can be added to by downloading and integrating Resource Packs from Promethean planet

Adam @ South Park has complied a very helpful guide for new users of Activ Primary 3 and is particularly suitable for those who have been used to Activ PX. It can be downloaded here or from the box.net side bar.

Other useful links for Activ Primary 3
Useful Top Tips Booklet as complied by users available upon membership of the forum
Top Tips videos from Promethean
Other Training videos from Atomic Learning

SMART vs Activ Again

I am not going to polarise the SMART vs ACTIV debate. I think they both do a good job, when facilitated by a good teacher,particularly this teachers who are keen to innovate with the board and move beyond annotation.

But there are two (of many) good features of Activ-Primary 3

The first is the opportunity to turn an object into a container, with attributes. So that if I add an object a positive or negative reward sound will play. So, I can make simple sorting activities as below.




The most exciting tool in Activ Primary 3 though is the Flip chart Builder. This would save lots of time as it enables the teacher to pull together pages from a range of locations to create a new flip chart. The templates will cut down the time it takes to create pages,while the tool also allows the user to import pages form other flip charts. This cuts down the searching , cutting and pasting. A bit like the slide sorter view in Powerpoint (but souped up)

SMART versus Activ

Nicholas has been learning Activ Primary, he has been a dedicated SMART user for ages, see what he says by clicking here.



I wonder if any other coordinators have tried both, and or have strong preferences towards one platform, if so why.