Testing your SmartBoard IQ

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/