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.

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