FL1 Users Manual
FL1 Users Manual
FL1 Users Manual
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
5. Features ..................................................................................................... p. 10
Modules ..................................................................................................... p. 10
My Alphabet .............................................................................................. p. 14
Fun Time! ................................................................................................... p. 15
Let’s Play! ................................................................................................... p. 16
Posters! ...................................................................................................... p. 17
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 Fairyland 1 Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Software. This
application is designed to follow the Fairyland course and enhance your own
and your learners’ experience in the language classroom.
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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 Fairyland 1 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 Fairyland_1.exe.
On a Mac OS
When you insert the disk into the slot, an icon will appear on your desktop with the name
Fairyland_1 (see Fig 1).
Fig 1
If you click it, the contents of the disk will appear in a browser window with the following icons
and file names (see Fig 2).
Fig 2
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By clicking this button you
Navigation can EXIT the application at
any time.
Fig 3
Fig 4
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For example, Fig 6 shows the screen for Exercise 1 of Lesson 3 in Unit 1.
Fig 7
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While navigating, you will notice a few more buttons that are designed to help you do the tasks.
For instance:
Fig 8 Fig 9
In some sections, you will find tasks that have this button (see Fig 10).
Fig 10
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In some sections, you will find tasks that include AUDIOS and VIDEOS (see Fig 11, 12, 13, 14).
Fig 11
Fig 12 Fig 13
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A SEEK BAR that operates in the
same way as in the Video section.
PLAY/PAUSE
An AUDIO PLAYER appears
on screen in activities that Fig 14
include audio recording (see
Go to the A VOLUME control that
Fig 6, 7, 12 and 13). BEGINNING/END operates in the same way as
of the recording. in the Video section.
Fig 15
All sections, i.e. Modules, My Alphabet, Fun Time!, Let’s play!, Posters, and Extras, are organised in the
same way (see FEATURES section for more details).
For instance, from the Main Menu, click My Alphabet section to enter MY ALPHABET MENU (see
Fig 16). Then click any of the given units, e.g. A-C or S-V etc, to enter the equivalent UNIT MENU
(see Fig 17).
Fig 16 Fig 17
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Features
The Fairyland IWB Software is designed as a teaching aid for the coursebook and for this reason
they are identical content-wise. Moreover, it includes all the course features such as class posters
and board games, 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. Whereas you can still use the PENCIL (see PENCIL section) 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.
Modules
As in the coursebook, each module includes two units, each of which is divided into five lessons.
In vocabulary tasks, click every small icon to make it larger (see Fig 18-19). As in Fig 10 and 11, clicking
the HEADPHONES will play the audio of the item and clicking the REVEAL/HIDE TEXT buttons will
reveal/hide the written forms.
Fig 18 Fig 19
Fig 20
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An additional comprehension task for every
dialogue involves matching the correct
audio sentence to the correct picture (see
Fig 21). Click the HEADPHONES button
below the pictures, listen and then click
the frame of the dialogue it corresponds
to. A correct answer will colour the frame,
whereas a wrong answer will activate a
sound effect.
Fig 21
Practice tasks vary throughout the software, but all can be completed either by clicking, dragging
and dropping or using the PENCIL tool from the toolbar to directly write your notes, draw lines
etc. For example:
In circling tasks, you can use the PENCIL tool to circle the correct item on screen. Alternatively, you
can click SHOW KEY buttons or click the item itself to circle it (see Fig 22-23).
Fig 22 Fig 23
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Matching tasks can be done by dragging and dropping each item into your chosen place, such as
in tasks in Fig 24-25. Alternatively, you can use the PENCIL tool to write your own answers.
Fig 24 Fig 25
Speaking tasks generally include all the suggested answers. Clicking the headphones or the SHOW KEY
button reveals the suggested answers as in the example in Fig 26-27.
Fig 26 Fig 27
Fig 28
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In colouring tasks, you may click a crayon to select a colour and then click the object to fill it with
that colour (see Fig 29-30). Alternatively, you may use the HIGHLIGHTER tool and select a colour
from the palette in the TOOLBAR (see HIGHLIGHTER and SELECT PENCIL/HIGHLIGHTER COLOUR
SECTIONS).
Fig 29 Fig 30
In line drawing and tracing tasks, you again have the choice of either clicking the SHOW KEY
button or using the PENCIL tool to draw the lines (see Fig 31-32).
Fig 31 Fig 32
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My Alphabet
Fig 33
Fig 34
Practice tasks that follow require writing or completing. Click the SHOW KEY buttons to reveal the
answers or simply use the PENCIL tool to write the missing letter on the screen (see Fig 35-36).
Fig 35 Fig 36
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Other practice tasks involve listening to and repeating a sentence (see Fig 37). Each listening and
repeating activity is accompanied by a corresponding video extract (see Fig 38).
Fig 37 Fig 38
Fun Time!
From the FUN TIME! MENU (Fig 39), click the poster at the centre of the screen to enter. Click each
item to listen to its audio. If you click the SHOW TEXT button the written form will be revealed as
well every time you click an object (see Fig 40).
Fig 39 Fig 40
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Let’s Play!
This section includes four animated board games (Fig 41). Click the LET’S PLAY icon in the MAIN
MENU (Fig 3) to see the four board games screen. Then, click the desired game to play (Fig 41).
Fig 41
Fig 42
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Posters!
Click the posters icons on the MAIN MENU to enter the POSTERS SUBMENU (see Fig 44). Then, click
the desired poster to enter. Click an object in the poster and listen to its audio. Click the button
to make its word/phrase/sentence appear on the screen (Fig 45).
Please note that in the Alphabet poster the alphabet is introduced phonetically.
Fig 44 Fig 45
Extras
Upon entering the EXTRAS SUBMENU (see Fig 46), click any of the pictures to go to the equivalent
optional unit (see Fig 47). The activities include songs, colouring tasks, matching tasks and writing tasks
as in the rest of the coursebook.
Fig 46 Fig 47
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The toolbar
At the bottom of every screen, you will find the Toolbar.
Fig 48 Fig 49
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.
Fig 50
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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 53).
Fig 54
Click to make your background Decrease font Click to Click to
transparent so you can see your notes size by 1 pt italicise bullet
superimposed on the screen. with each click. your text. your
text.
SELECT PENCIL/HIGHLIGHTER COLOUR: Click to reveal the colour options panel and select
a colour for your pencil/highlighter (see Fig 56). This is a very useful tool if you like to use
colour-coding while teaching.
Fig 56
ZOOM: Once you have clicked this tool, another options panel appears (see Fig 57).
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For example, Fig 58 shows a zoomed in area of a screen.
Fig 58
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 60). This will give you the opportunity to explore tasks and texts further.
Fig 60
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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 61).
Fig 61
Fig 62
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
Fairyland 1 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
Fig 63
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Loading Notes
Fig 66
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Using Note Exporter on an IBM compatible PC
As you save notes while using the Fairyland 1 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 68
Fig 69
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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 Fairyland1IWB.
Fig 71
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The saved notes files have now been moved to
the folder that the user specified (see Fig 75).
Fig 75
You can rename the file if you wish. However, please DO NOT CHANGE THE FIRST FOUR
CHARACTERS (FL1_) OR THE EXTENSION, as this will make your notes untraceable by the
application.
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 76
Fig 77
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After a few minutes, you will be prompted to
enter the application file identifier. Please type
FLand1
in the space provided (see Fig 78). Again,
please remember that this is a set file name
and that it is case-sensitive. Now click OK.
Fig 78
Fig 79
Fig 80
Fig 81
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.
To run Note Exporter, insert the disk into your drive. The icon shown in
Fig 82 will appear on your desktop.
Fig 82
Fig 83
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Exporting notes
Fig 85
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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 88 after a few seconds.
Fig 88
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 FIRST FOUR CHARACTERS (FL1_) OR THE
EXTENSION, as this will make your notes untraceable by the application.
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 89
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After a few minutes, you will be prompted to
enter the application file identifier (see Fig 91).
Please type
FLand1
in the space provided. Again, please
remember that this is a set file name and that
it is case-sensitive. Then click OK.
Fig 91
Fig 92
Fig 93
Fig 94
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.
For Fairyland 1 IWB, the file
identifier is FLand1.
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 Fairyland 1 IWB, please contact us at
IWBsupport@expresspublishing.co.uk .
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