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OK-so I'm not real sure I understand this whole poster creator idea, but it looks really promising, so I thought I would share. I'm all about charts in my room, and now I have an Activboard, so it sounds like something I need to check out. Anyone out there tried it? Here is the info taken from a blog I visited tonight called the scratchpad: http://blog.techscratchpad.com/?cat=3

The Scratchpad by jcalvert

I want to share a great tool I found for my teachers. As I mentioned before, every elementary teacher has a SMARTboard. Teachers love their boards, but teacher want diagrams and organizers that are completed in class to be available throughout the day. Chart paper can be hung on the wall, but when aSMARTboard turns off the beautiful organizer disappears with it. In the past I would export a notebook page to Powerpoint and copy/paste it into Publisher, then create a poster. This was a time consuming and awkward process. I have found a better solution! (Collective “Yay!”) . While I was surfing on [|SourceForge.com] I found [|Poster Razor]; freeware that provides a very simple way of turning an image file into a poster of any size. It works great for the SMARTboard. This is what you need to do: .


 * 1) In Notebook, go to File>Export>Image Files.


 * 1) I usually choose JPGs, then specify the largest size: 1024X768


 * 1) Export the files to a location. Unfortunately, SMARTnotebook will export every slide. You can delete the sides you don’t need before you export, just don’t save.


 * 1) Open Poster Razor


 * 1) Find the image of the slide you want to turn into a poster and follow the directions.

. Poster Razor will make a poster out of any image - it is very easy. The application will output your poster as a PDF to be printed later or saved. Try it out! I also looked at Poster Printer, which is also a promising app. [|Poster Printer] is a virtual printer that will print out a poster. Unfortunately, it seemed unable to handle SMARTnotebook’s handwritten lines, disqualifying it for use.

Let me know if you try it