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Maximizing SmartBoard Benefits in Education

Learn about SmartBoards, interactive whiteboards revolutionizing classrooms. Explore pros and cons while discovering educational benefits and software resources. Improve student engagement and interactivity with versatile applications.

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Maximizing SmartBoard Benefits in Education

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  1. Testing your SmartBoard IQ Felix Scott – EDIT202

  2. What is a SmartBoard? • A “SMART Board” is both a brand name and a generic term used to describe interactive whiteboards designed to provide touch control of computer applications. • Pen tray on the front of the interactive whiteboard that holds four plastic pen tools and an eraser. • The pen tools have neither electronic components nor ink: the technology is in the pen tray. • When a pen tool is removed from its slot in the tray, an optical sensor recognizes its absence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U05WeXPGlk&feature=youtube_gdata

  3. Benefits • Physical interaction and mobility • Useful for all grade levels to beneficial for kinesthetic students • Lessons can be recorded for students to review • Capture and hold the attention of visual and auditory learners • Promote Interactivity • Adaptive appeal • Beneficial for students who are partially sighted and hard of hearing students • Built-In Gallery and Lesson Search

  4. Drawbacks • Most classrooms who have adopted SmartBoards have had to retrofit to make them work, making for awkward placement in the classroom. • Teachers try to force everything into a SmartBoard lesson. • Student Expectations? • Learning Curve?

  5. Software • Notebook – Software Bundle (resources in .notebook format) • Can be adapted to any applications. What would be the educational benefits for allowing students to use an interactive whiteboard with such applications as • Microsoft Office family of products. • AutoCad • Flash • Any draw or paint Application

  6. SmartBoard Resources • http://education.smarttech.com • Smartech Searchable Database • SmartTech Suggested Websites • http://www.instantdisplay.co.uk/free.htm • http://mrculp.pbworks.com/ • http://schools.portnet.k12.ny.us • http://www.slideshare.net/

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