HH1 Users Manual PDF
HH1 Users Manual PDF
HH1 Users Manual PDF
ñ Mac OS X
ñ G4 @ 200 MHz CPU
ñ 256 MB RAM
ñ 32 MB RAM graphics card
ñ CD-ROM drive
ñ 16-bit sound card
Table of Contents
1. What is an Interactive Whiteboard? ........................................................................ p. 3
2. What equipment do I need to use the IWB software? ....................................... p. 3
3. Running the application ....................................................................................... p. 4
On an IBM compatible PC ...................................................................................... p. 4
On a Mac OS ......................................................................................................... p. 4
4. Navigation ............................................................................................................ p. 5
Menus and Submenus ............................................................................................ p. 5
Navigation controls ................................................................................................ p. 6
At the top of the screen ......................................................................................... p. 6
At the bottom of the screen (over the toolbar) .......................................................... p. 7
Within the screen ................................................................................................. p. 8
Video controls ..................................................................................................... p. 9
Audio controls ..................................................................................................... p. 9
5. Features ................................................................................................................ p. 10
Meet the Characters .............................................................................................. p. 10
Units ...................................................................................................................... p. 10
Words ................................................................................................................ p. 11
Songs ................................................................................................................ p. 12
Story .................................................................................................................. p. 12
Activities ............................................................................................................ p. 13
Across the Curriculum .......................................................................................... p. 16
Extras ..................................................................................................................... p. 17
6. The toolbar ........................................................................................................... p. 18
7. The toolbar at a glance ........................................................................................ p. 18
8. Using the tools ..................................................................................................... p. 19
PC Mode ................................................................................................................ p. 19
Pencil ..................................................................................................................... p. 19
Highlighter ............................................................................................................. p. 19
Create Text Box ...................................................................................................... p. 19
Select Pencil/Highlighter Thickness ......................................................................... p. 20
Select Pencil/Highlighter Colour ............................................................................. p. 20
Zoom ..................................................................................................................... p. 20
Eraser and Eraser Thickness .................................................................................... p. 21
Hide Part of the Screen .......................................................................................... p. 21
Isolate Part of the Screen ....................................................................................... p. 22
Page Controls ........................................................................................................ p. 22
Print ....................................................................................................................... p. 22
Clear Notes ............................................................................................................ p. 22
Undo/Redo ............................................................................................................. p. 22
Save and Load Notes .............................................................................................. p. 22
Saving Notes ....................................................................................................... p. 23
Loading Notes ..................................................................................................... p. 24
9. Using Note Exporter on an IBM compatible PC ....................................................... p. 25
Exporting notes ...................................................................................................... p. 26
Importing notes ..................................................................................................... p. 27
10. Using Note Exporter on a Mac OS .......................................................................... p. 29
Exporting notes ...................................................................................................... p. 30
Importing notes ..................................................................................................... p. 31
11. Troubleshooting .................................................................................................... p. 33
12. Contact support ................................................................................................... p. 33
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Welcome to Happy Hearts Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Software. This
application is designed to follow the Happy Hearts course and enhance your
own and your learners’ experience in the language classroom. This User’s
Manual applies to all three levels of the series – Starter, 1 and 2 – as they all
share the same structure and task types.
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Running the application
On an IBM compatible PC
The application should run automatically when you insert the disk into your drive. If it does not,
please follow these steps:
1. Go to START>MY COMPUTER.
2. Locate the icon of your CD/DVD drive. With the Happy Hearts Interactive Whiteboard disk inside
your drive, right-click the icon of your drive and choose EXPLORE.
3. In the new window that appears, double-click on the executable file name (HappyHeartsS.exe,
HappyHearts1.exe or HappyHearts2.exe).
On a Mac OS
When you insert the disk into the slot, an icon will appear on your desktop with the name of the disk
(see Fig 1-3: HappyHeartsS, HappyHearts1, HappyHearts2).
If you click it, the contents of the disk will appear in a browser window with the following icons
and file names (see Fig 4).
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Navigation
Fig 6: Happy Hearts Starter main menu Fig 7: Happy Hearts 1 main menu
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Every link in the MAIN MENU leads to
submenus that operate in the same way.
For example, if you wish to enter Unit 1 of
Happy Hearts Starter, click the link UNITS
(see Fig 6). The UNITS MENU will appear
(see Fig 9), showing the links to each unit
in the course.
Navigation controls
Throughout the application, the following controls/buttons have their own distinct function in whichever
screen they appear.
Click this to GO TO THE MAIN MENU at any point. This button is always placed on the
bottom left-hand corner of the screen (see Fig 10).
Click this to GO TO THE PREVIOUS TASK. If you are in the first task of the section,
this button will be grey (inactive).
Click this to GO TO THE NEXT TASK. If you are in the last task of the section, this
button will be grey (inactive).
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Within the screen
Click this to SHOW THE TAPESCRIPTS of an audio recording in a story (see Fig 12-13).
Fig 12: Example of story card with audio from Fig 13: Example of story card with audio from Happy
Happy Hearts Starter Hearts Starter, with tapescripts revealed
Click this to SHOW THE SUGGESTED ANSWERS in a task (see Fig 14-15).
Fig 14: Example of Happy Hearts Starter task Fig 15: Example of Happy Hearts Starter task, with
suggested answers revealed
Click this to ACTIVATE THE AUDIO of a single item or prompt in a task (see Fig 24).
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Video controls
Every song and story in the series is accompanied by an animated video. The video screen controls
are illustrated in Fig 16.
Audio controls
Every story in the series is also accompanied by the audio of each story card. The audio player and its
controls are illustrated in Fig 17-18.
PLAY/PAUSE
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Features
The Happy Hearts IWB Software is designed as a teaching aid for the coursebooks and for this
reason they are identical content-wise. Moreover, it includes course features such as class posters
and animated videos, all organised in individual menus for easy access. Wherever possible,
additional interactive activities have been added so as to provide further practice.
The execution of the task types used in the course is naturally slightly different when using an
interactive whiteboard. For instance, whereas you can still use the PENCIL tool (see PENCIL section
on p. 19) to write your notes or answers in a task, you may also complete them by either clicking
or dragging and dropping.
Below is a short presentation of the task types used in each section.
Fig 19: Example from Happy Hearts 1 Fig 20: Example from Happy Hearts 1
Units
The second link in the Words menu takes you to the vocabulary activity (see Fig 23). Click a THUMBNAIL
icon to make its larger picture appear in the centre of the screen (see Fig 24). Click the HEADPHONES
icon to activate its audio. To activate the written form of each item, click the SHOW TEXT button in
the bottom right-hand corner (see Fig 24).
Fig 23: Example from Happy Hearts 2 Fig 24: Example from Happy Hearts 2
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Songs
Once in the SONGS MENU (see Fig 25), click the song of your choice to enter its video screen (see
Fig 26). Use the video controls to play/pause/mute/(de)activate subtitles, while playing the animated
video (see Fig 16).
Fig 25: Example from Happy Hearts 2 Fig 26: Example from Happy Hearts 2
Story
The STORY MENU shows the set of story card thumbnails in each story (see Fig 27). Click a thumbnail
to enter the STORY CARD MENU (see Fig 28). Use the audio controls to play/pause/adjust the volume
of the audio, while playing the audio of each story card (see Fig 18). Click the TAPESCRIPTS button
to reveal the text of each story card (see Fig 29) and the WATCH VIDEO button to activate the video
screen of the story (see Fig 30).
Fig 27: Example from Happy Hearts 1 Fig 28: Example from Happy Hearts 1
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Fig 29: Example from Happy Hearts 1 Fig 30: Example from Happy Hearts 1
Activities
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Colouring activities can be carried out in
two different ways as depicted in Fig 33.
One way is to click the crayon of your
choice on the side of the black and white
illustration to select a colour. Then click an
area to fill it with that colour (in this
example, Fifi’s head). Alternatively, you can
use the PENCIL or HIGHLIGHTER tools.
Select a colour from the toolbar and
manually fill in an area with that particular
colour (see the heart on Fifi’s tummy).
Fig 33: Example from Happy Hearts 1
In more complicated illustrations, such as the example in Fig 34, you can additionally use the
ZOOM ( ) tool to magnify a particular area and then use the PENCIL or HIGHLIGHTER to colour
it (see Fig 35).
Fig 34: Example from Happy Hearts 2 Fig 35: Example from Happy Hearts 2
Tracing activities can be carried out using the PENCIL tool (see Fig 36). If you wish to enlarge the
letter/word/number/illustration to be traced, you can use the ZOOM tool (see Fig 37).
Fig 36: Example from Happy Hearts 2 Fig 37: Example from Happy Hearts 2
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The PENCIL can also be used in line drawing
tasks, such as the one in Fig 38. However, in
these tasks there is also an AUTO KEY
button. Clicking it will reveal the suggested
answers.
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In Fig 41 you drag and drop a character onto its silhouette in a larger picture, whereas in Fig 42, you
drag and drop a word to match it with a picture.
Fig 41: Example from Happy Hearts 2 Fig 42: Example from Happy Hearts 2
Fig 44: Example from Happy Hearts 1 Fig 45: Example from Happy Hearts 1
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Extras
Upon entering the EXTRAS SUBMENU (see Fig 46), click any of the links to go to the equivalent
optional unit (see Fig 47). The units include songs (see Fig 48), colouring tasks, matching tasks and
the same task types as in the rest of the coursebook (see Fig 49).
Fig 46: Example from Happy Hearts 1 Fig 47: Example from Happy Hearts 1
Fig 48: Example from Happy Hearts 1 Fig 49: Example from Happy Hearts 1
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The toolbar
Fig 50: Example from Happy Hearts Starter Fig 51: Example from Happy Hearts Starter
If for any reason you wish to hide the toolbar during your lesson, you can do so by
clicking this arrow on the left-hand side. To make it reappear, you can click the arrow on the right.
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Using the tools
PC MODE: After you have used one
of the tools, click this to regain your
normal mouse pointer function. This
way you can once again click and click
and drag.
CREATE TEXT BOX: If you don’t want to use the pointer/electronic pen of your interactive
whiteboard, this is a useful alternative for making notes. Click and drag to create a text
box and type in your notes (see Fig 55).
SELECT PENCIL/HIGHLIGHTER COLOUR: Click to reveal the colour options panel and select
a colour for your pencil/highlighter (see Fig 58). This is a very useful tool if you like to use
colour-coding while teaching.
ZOOM: Once you have clicked this tool, another options panel appears (see Fig 59).
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For example, Fig 60 shows a zoomed in area of a screen.
HIDE PART OF THE SCREEN: When you click and drag over a selected area with this tool,
you can hide areas such as individual illustrations, paragraphs, words, phrases etc (see
Fig 62). This will give you the opportunity to explore tasks and texts further.
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ISOLATE PART OF THE SCREEN: When
you click and drag over an area of the
screen with this tool, the section you
have selected will be visible and
therefore focus students’ attention
directly on it. The rest of the screen
fills up with the colour of your choice
(see Fig 63).
PRINT: Click this to print the screen you are working on, as it is – with notes. Please note
that the preferred printing mode for this feature is landscape.
CLEAR NOTES: Click this to erase all your notes on a particular screen.
UNDO / REDO: Click to undo or redo any action you have just done.
SAVE and LOAD NOTES: These two tools are especially useful if you want to use
the same notes with another class on a different day. Please note that the Happy
Hearts IWB notes and annotations can be accessed only through this software;
therefore, they will be saved in a file created by the software and identified by the
software alone.
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Saving Notes
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Loading Notes
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Using Note Exporter on an IBM compatible PC
As you save notes while using the Happy Hearts IWB Software, you may wish to share them with
other teachers using this software. You may also wish to use them on a different computer for a
different class of the same level. In order to do either, you have to export your saved notes.
For this purpose, we have included the Note Exporter utility in this software. Please note that this
function is only available for systems that are using the same software and that for Note Exporter
to function correctly, you need to have saved at least one set of whiteboard notes.
Fig 70
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Exporting notes
N.B.: Before exporting any notes, you will need to have created a folder in your computer into which
your notes will be exported. In this example, we have named this folder HH_IWB.
Fig 73
After a few minutes, you will be prompted to
enter the application file identifier. This is the
file in which the software saves all your notes.
The file identifiers for each level in the series are:
ñ HappyHeartsS for Happy Hearts Starter
ñ HappyHearts1 for Happy Hearts 1
ñ HappyHearts2 for Happy Hearts 2.
Please type the correct file identifier in the space
provided (see Fig 74). Please note that this file
name is case-sensitive, so it is important that Fig 74
you type it correctly. Now click OK.
Fig 75
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You can rename the file if you wish. However, please DO NOT CHANGE THE FILE PREFIXES OR
THE EXTENSION, as this will make your notes untraceable by the application. The file prefixes for
each level are:
ñ HHS_ for Happy Hearts Starter
ñ HH1_ for Happy Hearts 1
ñ HH2_ for Happy Hearts 2.
You can now store the file(s) you exported on any storage media, or send them by email. When
you want to use these files on another computer, use the IMPORT NOTES function.
Importing notes
To import your exported notes onto another computer that has the same software, run Note
Exporter as described in the previous section (see Exporting notes).
Fig 78
Fig 79
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After a few minutes, you will be prompted to
enter the application file identifier. Please type
the correct file identifier in the space provided
(see Fig 80). Again, please remember that this is
a set file name and that it is case-sensitive (see
the file identifiers list on p. 26). Now click OK.
Fig 80
Fig 81
Fig 82
Fig 83
In order to view the imported notes, you may now load them using the LOAD NOTES function.
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Using Note Exporter on a Mac OS
Note Exporter operates in a slightly different manner on a Mac OS.
Fig 87
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Exporting notes
Fig 89
Fig 91
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Please note that, after saving your exported
notes on your computer, you may transfer
them onto a CD or DVD, a floppy disk or a
USB memory stick.
Once you have specified where you want your
notes to be saved, click OK. You will see the
message shown in Fig 92 after a few seconds.
Fig 92
The saved notes files have now been moved to the folder the user specified. You can rename the
file if you wish. However, please DO NOT CHANGE THE FILE PREFIXES OR THE EXTENSION, as
this will make your notes untraceable by the application (see the file prefixes table on p. 27).
You can now store the file(s) you exported on any storage media, or send them by email. When
you want to use these files on another computer, use the IMPORT NOTES function.
Importing notes
To import your exported notes onto another computer that has the same software, run Note
Exporter as described in the previous section (see Exporting notes).
Fig 93
Fig 94
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After a few minutes, you will be prompted to
enter the application file identifier (see Fig 95).
Please type the correct file identifier in the
space provided (see the file identifiers list on
p. 26). Again, please remember that this is a
set file name and that it is case-sensitive.
Then click OK.
Fig 95
Fig 96
Fig 97
Fig 98
Again, in order to view the imported notes, you may now load them using the LOAD NOTES
function.
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Troubleshooting
Problem Solution
I’ve just written some notes and I Make sure you return to PC Mode
want to go back to using the main using the PC Mode icon.
application, but it seems that I cannot
click anything.
Note Exporter cannot find my files. ñ Make sure you have typed the
application file identifier correctly.
The correct file identifiers are:
ñ HappyHeartsS for Happy Hearts
Starter
ñ HappyHearts1 for Happy Hearts 1
ñ HappyHearts2 for Happy Hearts 2.
ñ If the problem persists, avoid using
other applications while running
Note Exporter.
My pages do not print properly. Make sure your printer is set to print
in landscape mode for optimum
results.
Contact support
In case you have any queries on the use of Happy Hearts IWB, please contact us at
IWBsupport@expresspublishing.co.uk .
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USER’S
MANUAL