subject: What Can You Do with a Smartboard? [print this page] What Can You Do with a Smartboard? What Can You Do with a Smartboard?
During the last few years, teaching technology has advanced massively.
We started with the chalkboard on a wall in classrooms. In time the standard chalkboard was replaced or complimented with the whiteboard, a board that made use of different coloured pens that could more easily be cleaned from the whiteboard. Now we have the interactive whiteboard. Many manufacturers started to develop interactive whiteboards, but the market leader developed a board commonly known as the Smartboard. Smartboards are manufactured by a company called Smart Technologies. If you're not familiar with smartboards, here are some of the things that they are capable of doing.
The old way was to use dry markers or chalk, but the smartboard allows you to write on the surface with your finger, special pens or any other object that you could easily write with. It seems as if you are physically writing on the screen itself, but you are actually not.The pens that you are using are actually digital, and they contain buttons that allow you to easily use many of the processes that are available. It is also possible for you to use a QWERTY keyboard as well, one that shows up on the whiteboard and can be utilized by simply touching the keys that appear on the screen. This can help you to open up even more features.
The board requires a PC or laptop to run it. The program, known as Notebook is used by educators to be able to effectively use the interactive whiteboard in a classroom setting. You can also utilize it, however, in almost any type of setting and it is frequently used for businesses that want to use one of these whiteboards during conferences, either in office conferences or perhaps those with other agencies.
That is where the real beauty of these interactive whiteboards come into play. You can use them as a standalone aid or there is a possibility that they can be used across the network, intranet or internet. The obvious benefit of this is that training and conferences can take place and you all do not need to be in the same room, which can save on time and travel costs.
I do not think that the technology will stop there as every manufacturer are competing to always improve technology within these interactive whiteboards as with any market. There are over a million of these smartboards deployed across the globe, it is estimated that every classroom in every school will eventually have the interactive whiteboard fitted as standard.
