Smart boards!!!!!!!! It is a wonderful, useful and unusual invention. I did not know about it before. They are really easy to use, smart boards are much better than simple boards, teachers and students can not only write on it, but also watch and show presentations, make some diagrams and so on... It is perfectly done and I am sure that it is not the end and later the progress will surprise us again and again:))))))
Impressive! That's just what our future studehts need 'cause we live in the age of technology progress. It's much more interesting both for kids and for students. Smart boards give us extraordinary opportunities. Pupils are totally involved during the lesson, so the teacher can impart lesson material and be sure s/he will get a feedback.
This is really useful mean of teaching!!!) Smart boards have so many features. All schools should have them. Students can use the internet and the teacher can easily monitor the students' online activity. They can also learn how to use a lot of different types of programs through the Smart board. It can save a teacher a lot of time by easy access to internet sites and it can be switched from a computer screen to a writing tablet. Students will want to volunteer to go to the smart board. It could even be used for a reward. The possibilities are endless!!! I would like to teach children in such way with pleasure!
Undoubtedly, it’s a very practical and exciting thing. We were convinced that the smart board offers student many features that simplify boring work in the classroom and make it a hundred times exciting. This is something new in modern education; smart board allows you to exercise the imagination at classroom work, which is very important for young thinkers. I consider that it’s primarily a medicine from boredom in the classroom, in addition to all other benefits, which are listed in the video. I think in the near future, such technology will replace the usual tedious rhythm in schools.
I think that Smart Board is really extraordinary making the students more involved than with any other means. “Extraordinary made simple” is an amazing slogan used for the promo. Combining the simplicity of a whiteboard with the power of a computer, the SMART Board interactive whiteboard lets the teachers of the first-six graders deliver dynamic lessons, write notes in digital ink, and save their work – all with the simple touch of a finger. Using SMART Notebook software, teachers can record each step of a lesson activity for students to review at a later time. The SMART Board works with any program loaded or available on the host computer. I do believe that in a couple of years this device will be accessible in Ukraine, because it is really great for interactivity during classes. Using any tool to write-isn`t it amazing!
I hear for such smart boards for the first time and I'm really surpised! Now It seems like a miracle but such technology as to me is very usefull in teaching not only foreign language but also other scines. As any learnig is boring in most of cases such boards will have always success. They make learnig more interesting not only for children but for adults also. This method of teaching is so simply and grasping. You need nly your finger to start.
Nesti said: "I do believe that in a couple of years this device will be accessible in Ukraine" I may say that such devices are already successfully used in Ukraine and even in Kerch (at list one). Why is it so easy to use? The answer is obvious. As they say in all-kinds-of-different-devices advertisement it has "friendly user interface")). All pupils love to use any kind of devices and no doubts children prefer use them in class. Any innovation they perceive enthusiastically. Studying with a help of a smart board is like a game. Most of pupils are initially scared of rules and think that it's too hard for them. A smart board shows that everything is easy. And everybody can successfully use it. As we know success is a great motivation. Besides all, a smart board satisfies the principle of visibility.
It can be so useful-if you are techy you won't have a problem. I think that it kept the kids' attention better and there are tons of ready made lessons out there but you definately have to "pay the time" your first year of using it, but the next year and beyond you'll have ready made lessons.Just like here, teachers share their work and ideas so it opens up many new worlds of learning to you and your students. Although many of the interactive sites can be utilized on the computer, there is something to be said for the advantages of instructing from the board when the teacher can quickly change color, pen thickness, backgrounds (grids), highlight, and pull up tools such as clocks, maps, dice, etc.It is such a valuable tool.
It’s a great way to make the learning easier and faster, to motivate learners, to organize two-way communications, to make the lesson more interesting, interactive and demonstrative. It also can be used for different ages of students. It can be colorful for children as well as interesting and suitable for adults.
Honestly I have seen the presentation of SmartBoard first time. no doubts SmartBoard has endless posibilities - to make lessons more interesting, to keep all students concentrated,to make successful presentations... It is interactive. But for me the main thing is that SmartBoard can help to save time..time for preparing for the lesson, for presenting new material etc. The only bad thing about SmartBoard i guess is the price. it is expensive even in maintenance.
Oh yeah those boards are great stuff. It is unusual and useful invention. They are really easy to use, smart boards are much better than simple boards. We have it at our school for about a year… now. SMART Board is a series of interactive white-boards developed by SMART Technologies. SMART Board interactive white-board system offers an information space that allows his students to engage in active collaboration. He makes three distinct claims regarding the functionality of the technology: 1) the SMART Board allows users to work with large amounts of information, 2) it offers an information space that invites active collaboration, and 3) the work produced is often “dynamic and contingent” Great stuff.
Smart board really helps to keep students focused on learning. This useful invention develops creative skills of teacher and her pupils. It is the effective form of presentation of the teaching material. Moreover smart board raises productivity of learning, making the process similar to «play in writing» and blasting psychological barriers at perception of the new.
I think that the technology is really useful and innovative, which, no doubt, in recent time will occupy a fitting place in educational systems in all the countries. Besides the fact, that the board is really smart, it is as easy as a pie in usage. As it was said in the video, it has three unique features that help the teacher to deliver the information to the students in EASY way which stimulates students to work with the pleasure – and exactly this is necessary for students to learn a lesson as good as possible. SO one of the said above features is touch recognition making the process of learning really absorbing (you can use a pen to write, a finger to navigate and erase).And it lets to correct mistakes in a very easy way. The second feature is the possibility to use not only pens for writing on it, but a lot of other things too. The third is smart notebook software having simple interface which let students and teachers have an access to a great amount of information practically immediately. Thus, these features of the SMART Board make the educational process quicker and technically easier. Undoubtedly, the SMART Board interactive whiteboard helps students to improve learning outcomes – and does it successively. Combining the simplicity of a whiteboard with the power of a computer, the SMART Board interactive whiteboard lets you deliver dynamic lessons, write notes in digital ink, and save your work – all with the simple touch of a finger. The smart board technology is the future of the world education.
I think that the SMART Board is a very good invention. It can help to improve learning outcomes, the teachers are able to communicate with their students more effectively and of course it is really something extraordinary and simple. But unfortunately the SMART BOARDS are relatively expansive and I don’t believe that our schools will receive the opportunity to use it soon.
I see a lot of pluses. First of all these smart boards are rather easy-to-use.I’ve understood that everyone can easily use them. At second, they can be effectively used for education on all the stages. The young pupils will be attracted with the bright colors the movements of words. It is undoubtedly will motivate them to learn. The senior students will be attracted with the easiness and effectiveness of the usage. It is undoubtedly will accelerate the process of education and will make it much more effective.
So, our schools have hopelessly lagged behind... Have you noticed, what discipline is at school and how attentively children listen?! It is visible at once, that the lesson is interesting to them. I was amazed. It is a unique thing. Firstly, it improves a visual memory at the children. Secondly, concentrates attention of children to what a teacher speaks and does. Besides textbooks, copy-books and many other subjects it is even not necessary to take with. Children learn to work with the computer, with pleasure go to the board and I think, the lesson goes very productively. Actually Smart Board possesses very many useful functions. I am impressed by that how effecrive the process of learning can be.
It is really an amazing invention.It couldn't be even compared with an ordinary black or white board.This one represents a universal kind of support. It saves time, because the number of handouts and visual supports, that are to be created by the teacher, decreases, and, of course, makes your lessons interactive to some extend.I consider it would be great to have such a boards in our schools.
Unbelievable! It is an extraordinarily useful and important invention. This is not so boring blackboards, but new multifunction SMART BOARDS. Thanks to these boards, children's education become more interesting, and that is most important - productive! Children impessed with all these bright colours, configurations and they want use that SMART boards again and again. It is a very good motivation.
It has 3 unique features which engage students in extraordinary way: 1-touch recognition; here you can use a pen to write, a finger to navigate, and a palm to erase without need of extra button; 2- a pen tray; pans can be of different colours; even if you have missed a special pen you can use any other objects – and it’s really usable; 3-smart notebook software (sns); it includes a tool bar with icons and it let you to have interactivity at your lessons; to deliver, to create and to manage; it make a smart board interactive; sns has simple interface; Smart boards were made for easy usage as for teachers as for students; Smart boards can help you to make your students involved into process of learning.
Smart Boards are so easy to use because it has 3 unique features: - Smarts new touch recognition feature allows the Smart Board to recognize your touch and switch modes automatically. You can write with a pen, erase with the palm and move objects around with your finger without having to access other tools, buttons or on-screen menus. - Write with the pen using the pen from the pen tray or your finger; use magic pen to spotlight, magnify, or automatically erase and shape pen to draw shapes that automatically transform to regular shapes. - Smart Notebook software sets the standard for creating, teaching and managing interactive lessons within a single application, it combines all the tools you need to teach. It's amazing technology and has a multitude of impressive uses.
It has 3 unique features that help teachers make inspiring lessons: - touch recognition; - pen tray; - smart notebook software. Like traditional projection devices, SmartBoards work with a standard desktop or laptop computer and a projector (usually ceiling mounted) to provide a hands on approach to information display. The boards have a touch screen interface that allows users to scroll through presentations or websites, making them more interactive than a standard white board or other projection device. Users can also write on the boards with electronic pens or standard dry erase markers. Free software packages are available for download that significantly extend the capabilities of the SmartBoard by providing graphics and other applications such as the smart notebook software.
It is the excellent invention!!!!!! The book, board, chalk, cards with tasks and paper posters are components of pedagogical technologies which were good in the past. By means of Smart Board it is possible to show presentations, to create models, actively to involve pupils in process of development of a material. Animation is a great way to excite your pupils and get their attention. The games which are the basic method of teaching, reproduced by means of the electronic equipment, solve a problem of change-over from game to educational activity.
Rather nonstandard method of educating pupils. One can see advantages of this device, but I'm not sure about its impeccability. I still thinking that Ukraine and Ukraininan mentality still not ready to accept such technologies. If they are accepted then only in colledges, lyceums or paid schools. I can't imagine this technology in most schools of our town. Moreover, with Ukrainian mentality this usefull thing may change to the object of threatening children. May be I have tendency to exaggerate, but I really know some examples, when new tecnologies were applied, and children had no access to use them, moreover they were thretend with them so much that they afraided even to have a glance at those devices. And I afraid about discipline. Smart Board can cause too many attention to itself, and the teacher appears to be on the background. The smallest one may just forget about teacher's existence and about the lesson. And yet I think it's rather high and can be not convenient for little children. Smart Board as any technology should be applyed constantly in the teaching process, not to shock at once children, their parents and teachers.
New technologies are certainly great teaching resources. I personally started using my laptop and Smart Board this year and I realised that that benefited me and my students. My work has become more interesting, easier and cleaner. Chalk and talk everyday turns your classroom into a boring place for you and your students. With the new technologies my students are more interested in attending my classes. The new technologies have made my work easier too. As an example, preparing visual aids and showing them is no more hard work. There are lots of readymade pictures on the web that you can edit and present effectively using MS PowerPoint. My work has also become cleaner. I couldn't put on my nice clothes when coming to the classroom because of the chalk I used. Now I have a white interactive board and a laptop. In the past I used to spend lots of time looking for visual aids to use in my lessons. I usually cut pictures from magazines or printed them from the internet. Now I use Google to look for pictures, edit them and save them to my computer. I also used to have hand-written lesson plans. Now I type them on my computer and then print a copy.
no I have not used one. but knowing their function, I can say that they would not be of any more use than a regular whiteboard in a typical school. I`m saying that that would just be fun to play with.
Enhance the power of collaborative learning with the widescreen SMART Board® 885ix interactive whiteboard system. The 885ix enables two users to instantly and easily work on its surface at the same time using their fingers or a pen. The integrated system combines an interactive whiteboard with an ultra-short-throw projector that virtually eliminates shadows and glare, a multiuser Pen Tray and a control panel that enables teachers to manage all classroom technology products from the front of the classroom. Teachers can increase the opportunities for classroom collaboration thanks to the multitouch capabilities of the new 885ix. Two people can use their fingers or a pen to write, draw and interact with content on the surface of the SMART Board interactive whiteboard. There are no special tools or menus required – students can simply walk up to the SMART Board interactive whiteboard and immediately begin working together. With freestyle interaction, two students can work together anywhere on the surface without being restricted to a defined space or required to use a specific tool. And each student can perform different actions at the same time. For example, one student can move objects around while the other writes in digital ink. Using touch gestures*, students can interact with lesson content in new and exciting ways, which gives them a deeper, more interactive learning experience. Students can use simple, intuitive gestures, such as toss, rotate and zoom, or use the navigational gestures available with multitouch operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows 7 or Mac Snow Leopard. The object awareness feature makes using the 885ix series a completely intuitive experience – the technology is virtually invisible. You can switch seamlessly from writing with a pen, erasing with the palm of your hand and moving objects with your finger. There's no need to press buttons, access on-screen menus or replace tools in the Pen Tray. Teachers can access free, ready-to-use educational resources, including thousands of standards-correlated SMART Notebook lesson activities, anytime on the SMART Exchange website. Like other material created with SMART Notebook 10.6 software, these lesson activities are enhanced by the new features of the 885ix. And with the release of SMART Notebook 10.7 software, added functionality will become available.
Smart boards!!!!!!!! It is a wonderful, useful and unusual invention. I did not know about it before. They are really easy to use, smart boards are much better than simple boards, teachers and students can not only write on it, but also watch and show presentations, make some diagrams and so on... It is perfectly done and I am sure that it is not the end and later the progress will surprise us again and again:))))))
ReplyDeleteImpressive! That's just what our future studehts need 'cause we live in the age of technology progress. It's much more interesting both for kids and for students. Smart boards give us extraordinary opportunities. Pupils are totally involved during the lesson, so the teacher can impart lesson material and be sure s/he will get a feedback.
ReplyDeleteThis is really useful mean of teaching!!!)
ReplyDeleteSmart boards have so many features. All schools should have them. Students can use the internet and the teacher can easily monitor the students' online activity. They can also learn how to use a lot of different types of programs through the Smart board. It can save a teacher a lot of time by easy access to internet sites and it can be switched from a computer screen to a writing tablet. Students will want to volunteer to go to the smart board. It could even be used for a reward. The possibilities are endless!!! I would like to teach children in such way with pleasure!
Undoubtedly, it’s a very practical and exciting thing. We were convinced that the smart board offers student many features that simplify boring work in the classroom and make it a hundred times exciting. This is something new in modern education; smart board allows you to exercise the imagination at classroom work, which is very important for young thinkers. I consider that it’s primarily a medicine from boredom in the classroom, in addition to all other benefits, which are listed in the video. I think in the near future, such technology will replace the usual tedious rhythm in schools.
ReplyDeleteI think that Smart Board is really extraordinary making the students more involved than with any other means. “Extraordinary made simple” is an amazing slogan used for the promo. Combining the simplicity of a whiteboard with the power of a computer, the SMART Board interactive whiteboard lets the teachers of the first-six graders deliver dynamic lessons, write notes in digital ink, and save their work – all with the simple touch of a finger. Using SMART Notebook software, teachers can record each step of a lesson activity for students to review at a later time. The SMART Board works with any program loaded or available on the host computer.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that in a couple of years this device will be accessible in Ukraine, because it is really great for interactivity during classes. Using any tool to write-isn`t it amazing!
I hear for such smart boards for the first time and I'm really surpised!
ReplyDeleteNow It seems like a miracle but such technology as to me is very usefull in teaching not only foreign language but also other scines.
As any learnig is boring in most of cases such boards will have always success. They make learnig more interesting not only for children but for adults also.
This method of teaching is so simply and grasping. You need nly your finger to start.
Nesti said: "I do believe that in a couple of years this device will be accessible in Ukraine"
ReplyDeleteI may say that such devices are already successfully used in Ukraine and even in Kerch (at list one).
Why is it so easy to use? The answer is obvious. As they say in all-kinds-of-different-devices advertisement it has "friendly user interface")).
All pupils love to use any kind of devices and no doubts children prefer use them in class. Any innovation they perceive enthusiastically.
Studying with a help of a smart board is like a game. Most of pupils are initially scared of rules and think that it's too hard for them. A smart board shows that everything is easy. And everybody can successfully use it. As we know success is a great motivation.
Besides all, a smart board satisfies the principle of visibility.
by the way...schools of our town were promised to get smart boards, but...it's still just a dream)
ReplyDeleteIt can be so useful-if you are techy you won't have a problem. I think that it kept the kids' attention better and there are tons of ready made lessons out there but you definately have to "pay the time" your first year of using it, but the next year and beyond you'll have ready made lessons.Just like here, teachers share their work and ideas so it opens up many new worlds of learning to you and your students. Although many of the interactive sites can be utilized on the computer, there is something to be said for the advantages of instructing from the board when the teacher can quickly change color, pen thickness, backgrounds (grids), highlight, and pull up tools such as clocks, maps, dice, etc.It is such a valuable tool.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a great way to make the learning easier and faster, to motivate learners, to organize two-way communications, to make the lesson more interesting, interactive and demonstrative. It also can be used for different ages of students. It can be colorful for children as well as interesting and suitable for adults.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I have seen the presentation of SmartBoard first time. no doubts SmartBoard has endless posibilities - to make lessons more interesting, to keep all students concentrated,to make successful presentations... It is interactive. But for me the main thing is that SmartBoard can help to save time..time for preparing for the lesson, for presenting new material etc. The only bad thing about SmartBoard i guess is the price. it is expensive even in maintenance.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah those boards are great stuff. It is unusual and useful invention. They are really easy to use, smart boards are much better than simple boards. We have it at our school for about a year… now. SMART Board is a series of interactive white-boards developed by SMART Technologies. SMART Board interactive white-board system offers an information space that allows his students to engage in active collaboration. He makes three distinct claims regarding the functionality of the technology: 1) the SMART Board allows users to work with large amounts of information, 2) it offers an information space that invites active collaboration, and 3) the work produced is often “dynamic and contingent”
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff.
Smart board really helps to keep students focused on learning. This useful invention develops creative skills of teacher and her pupils. It is the effective form of presentation of the teaching material. Moreover smart board raises productivity of learning, making the process similar to «play in writing» and blasting psychological barriers at perception of the new.
ReplyDeleteI think that the technology is really useful and innovative, which, no doubt, in recent time will occupy a fitting place in educational systems in all the countries. Besides the fact, that the board is really smart, it is as easy as a pie in usage. As it was said in the video, it has three unique features that help the teacher to deliver the information to the students in EASY way which stimulates students to work with the pleasure – and exactly this is necessary for students to learn a lesson as good as possible.
ReplyDeleteSO one of the said above features is touch recognition making the process of learning really absorbing (you can use a pen to write, a finger to navigate and erase).And it lets to correct mistakes in a very easy way. The second feature is the possibility to use not only pens for writing on it, but a lot of other things too. The third is smart notebook software having simple interface which let students and teachers have an access to a great amount of information practically immediately. Thus, these features of the SMART Board make the educational process quicker and technically easier.
Undoubtedly, the SMART Board interactive whiteboard helps students to improve learning outcomes – and does it successively. Combining the simplicity of a whiteboard with the power of a computer, the SMART Board interactive whiteboard lets you deliver dynamic lessons, write notes in digital ink, and save your work – all with the simple touch of a finger. The smart board technology is the future of the world education.
I think that the SMART Board is a very good invention. It can help to improve learning outcomes, the teachers are able to communicate with their students more effectively and of course it is really something extraordinary and simple. But unfortunately the SMART BOARDS are relatively expansive and I don’t believe that our schools will receive the opportunity to use it soon.
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ReplyDeleteI see a lot of pluses. First of all these smart boards are rather easy-to-use.I’ve understood that everyone can easily use them. At second, they can be effectively used for education on all the stages.
ReplyDeleteThe young pupils will be attracted with the bright colors the movements of words. It is undoubtedly will motivate them to learn. The senior students will be attracted with the easiness and effectiveness of the usage. It is undoubtedly will accelerate the process of education and will make it much more effective.
So, our schools have hopelessly lagged behind... Have you noticed, what discipline is at school and how attentively children listen?! It is visible at once, that the lesson is interesting to them. I was amazed. It is a unique thing. Firstly, it improves a visual memory at the children. Secondly, concentrates attention of children to what a teacher speaks and does. Besides textbooks, copy-books and many other subjects it is even not necessary to take with. Children learn to work with the computer, with pleasure go to the board and I think, the lesson goes very productively. Actually Smart Board possesses very many useful functions. I am impressed by that how effecrive the process of learning can be.
ReplyDeleteIt is really an amazing invention.It couldn't be even compared with an ordinary black or white board.This one represents a universal kind of support. It saves time, because the number of handouts and visual supports, that are to be created by the teacher, decreases, and, of course, makes your lessons interactive to some extend.I consider it would be great to have such a boards in our schools.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable! It is an extraordinarily useful and important invention. This is not so boring blackboards, but new multifunction SMART BOARDS.
ReplyDeleteThanks to these boards, children's education become more interesting, and that is most important - productive! Children impessed with all these bright colours, configurations and they want use that SMART boards again and again. It is a very good motivation.
It has 3 unique features which engage students in extraordinary way:
ReplyDelete1-touch recognition; here you can use a pen to write, a finger to navigate, and a palm to erase without need of extra button;
2- a pen tray; pans can be of different colours; even if you have missed a special pen you can use any other objects – and it’s really usable;
3-smart notebook software (sns); it includes a tool bar with icons and it let you to have interactivity at your lessons; to deliver, to create and to manage; it make a smart board interactive; sns has simple interface;
Smart boards were made for easy usage as for teachers as for students;
Smart boards can help you to make your students involved into process of learning.
Smart Boards are so easy to use because it has 3 unique features:
ReplyDelete- Smarts new touch recognition feature allows the Smart Board to recognize your touch and switch modes automatically. You can write with a pen, erase with the palm and move objects around with your finger without having to access other tools, buttons or on-screen menus.
- Write with the pen using the pen from the pen tray or your finger; use magic pen to spotlight, magnify, or automatically erase and shape pen to draw shapes that automatically transform to regular shapes.
- Smart Notebook software sets the standard for creating, teaching and managing interactive lessons within a single application, it combines all the tools you need to teach.
It's amazing technology and has a multitude of impressive uses.
It has 3 unique features that help teachers make inspiring lessons:
ReplyDelete- touch recognition;
- pen tray;
- smart notebook software.
Like traditional projection devices, SmartBoards work with a standard desktop or laptop computer and a projector (usually ceiling mounted) to provide a hands on approach to information display. The boards have a touch screen interface that allows users to scroll through presentations or websites, making them more interactive than a standard white board or other projection device. Users can also write on the boards with electronic pens or standard dry erase markers. Free software packages are available for download that significantly extend the capabilities of the SmartBoard by providing graphics and other applications such as the smart notebook software.
It is the excellent invention!!!!!! The book, board, chalk, cards with tasks and paper posters are components of pedagogical technologies which were good in the past. By means of Smart Board it is possible to show presentations, to create models, actively to involve pupils in process of development of a material. Animation is a great way to excite your pupils and get their attention. The games which are the basic method of teaching, reproduced by means of the electronic equipment, solve a problem of change-over from game to educational activity.
ReplyDeleteRather nonstandard method of educating pupils. One can see advantages of this device, but I'm not sure about its impeccability. I still thinking that Ukraine and Ukraininan mentality still not ready to accept such technologies. If they are accepted then only in colledges, lyceums or paid schools. I can't imagine this technology in most schools of our town. Moreover, with Ukrainian mentality this usefull thing may change to the object of threatening children. May be I have tendency to exaggerate, but I really know some examples, when new tecnologies were applied, and children had no access to use them, moreover they were thretend with them so much that they afraided even to have a glance at those devices.
ReplyDeleteAnd I afraid about discipline. Smart Board can cause too many attention to itself, and the teacher appears to be on the background. The smallest one may just forget about teacher's existence and about the lesson. And yet I think it's rather high and can be not convenient for little children.
Smart Board as any technology should be applyed constantly in the teaching process, not to shock at once children, their parents and teachers.
New technologies are certainly great teaching resources. I personally started using my laptop and Smart Board this year and I realised that that benefited me and my students. My work has become more interesting, easier and cleaner. Chalk and talk everyday turns your classroom into a boring place for you and your students. With the new technologies my students are more interested in attending my classes. The new technologies have made my work easier too. As an example, preparing visual aids and showing them is no more hard work. There are lots of readymade pictures on the web that you can edit and present effectively using MS PowerPoint. My work has also become cleaner. I couldn't put on my nice clothes when coming to the classroom because of the chalk I used. Now I have a white interactive board and a laptop.
ReplyDeleteIn the past I used to spend lots of time looking for visual aids to use in my lessons. I usually cut pictures from magazines or printed them from the internet. Now I use Google to look for pictures, edit them and save them to my computer. I also used to have hand-written lesson plans. Now I type them on my computer and then print a copy.
no I have not used one. but knowing their function, I can say that they would not be of any more use than a regular whiteboard in a typical school. I`m saying that that would just be fun to play with.
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ReplyDeleteEnhance the power of collaborative learning with the widescreen SMART Board® 885ix interactive whiteboard system. The 885ix enables two users to instantly and easily work on its surface at the same time using their fingers or a pen. The integrated system combines an interactive whiteboard with an ultra-short-throw projector that virtually eliminates shadows and glare, a multiuser Pen Tray and a control panel that enables teachers to manage all classroom technology products from the front of the classroom.
ReplyDeleteTeachers can increase the opportunities for classroom collaboration thanks to the multitouch capabilities of the new 885ix. Two people can use their fingers or a pen to write, draw and interact with content on the surface of the SMART Board interactive whiteboard. There are no special tools or menus required – students can simply walk up to the SMART Board interactive whiteboard and immediately begin working together.
With freestyle interaction, two students can work together anywhere on the surface without being restricted to a defined space or required to use a specific tool. And each student can perform different actions at the same time. For example, one student can move objects around while the other writes in digital ink.
Using touch gestures*, students can interact with lesson content in new and exciting ways, which gives them a deeper, more interactive learning experience. Students can use simple, intuitive gestures, such as toss, rotate and zoom, or use the navigational gestures available with multitouch operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows 7 or Mac Snow Leopard.
The object awareness feature makes using the 885ix series a completely intuitive experience – the technology is virtually invisible. You can switch seamlessly from writing with a pen, erasing with the palm of your hand and moving objects with your finger. There's no need to press buttons, access on-screen menus or replace tools in the Pen Tray.
Teachers can access free, ready-to-use educational resources, including thousands of standards-correlated SMART Notebook lesson activities, anytime on the SMART Exchange website. Like other material created with SMART Notebook 10.6 software, these lesson activities are enhanced by the new features of the 885ix. And with the release of SMART Notebook 10.7 software, added functionality will become available.