Presenters: Daniel Baker, Cynthia Smith, Natalia Morale

Contributors: Kara Burris, Kellie Kizer, Candice McWaters 

 

Portions of this wiki received from  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_Board_interactive_whiteboard

http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/smartboard/SMARTBoardinfo.pdf

 

 

 

What it is

 

The SMART Board interactive whiteboard is a product of SMART technologies. It is a large, touch-controlled screen that works with a projector and a computer. The projector throws the computer’s desktop image onto the interactive whiteboard, which acts as both a monitor and an input device. Users can write on the interactive whiteboard in digital ink or use a finger to control computer applications by pointing, clicking and dragging, just as with a desktop mouse. Buttons launch a popup keyboard and a right-mouse-click menu for more input options. The interactive whiteboard is usually mounted on a wall or a floor stand and is used in face-to-face or virtual settings in education, business and government.

 

 

 

 

History

 

 

SMART introduced the first SMART Board interactive whiteboard in 1991.It was the first interactive whiteboard to provide touch control of computer applications and annotation over standard Microsoft Windows applications.

 

Uses:

The SMART Board interactive whiteboard works with any program loaded or available on the host computer. Some applications commonly used with the SMART Board interactive whiteboard are Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word, and AutoCAD. Uses for the SMART Board interactive whiteboard include teaching, training, conducting meetings, and delivering presentations. Educators comprise the majority of users; as of 2007, more than 800,000 SMART Board interactive whiteboards have been sold in more than 100 countries. As a presentation, communication, and distance-collaboration tool, the SMART Board interactive whiteboard also has business and government applications.

 

 

 

Overview

 

The smarboards are extrembely valuable because of these user friendly features that allow you to:

 

 

 

 

Smartboard Tools

 

SMART Board Tools are the start center, spotlight, screen shade, magnifier, floating tools, on-screen keyboard, LinQ software, video player and recorder.

 

Pen Tray: All models of SMART Board interactive whiteboards have a pen tray on the front of the interactive whiteboard that holds four plastic pen tools( usually, red, blue, green, and black) 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. SMART Board software processes the next contact with the interactive whiteboard’s surface as a pen action from the pen tool that resides in that particular slot. There are slots for black, blue, red and green pen tools, although a control panel can be used to change the color of the digital ink, or to change the pen tools to colored highlighters. Once a pen tool is removed from its slot, users can write in the selected color with that pen tool, a finger or any other object. Similarly, when the eraser is removed from its position in the pen tray, the software processes the next contact with the screen as an erasing action, whether the contact is from the eraser, the user’s finger or another object. When erasing, making a circular motion around the content you want to remove, and then tapping the middle, will automatically erase everything you circled. This way, you no longer have to remove every move you made on the board.

 

 

 

How is SMARTboard used in education?

Teachers:

• The electronic whiteboard allows teachers to provide interactive demonstrations.
• The board can accommodate different learning styles.
• All ages of students respond favorably to board use.
• One-computer classrooms can maximize the use of limited computer access.
• The interactive whiteboard is an excellent tool for the constructivist educator.
• The boards are clean and attractive tools.
• Students with limited motor skills can enjoy board use.
• The SMARTboard's interactivity makes it an asset in every classroom.
• Allows teachers to use computer programs and games interactively.
• Makes saving work from lessons extremely easy (using the picture function).
• Teachers can save the notes written on the Smartboard for a later date.
• Notes written can be printed out for absent students.
• Digital Storytelling can be shown on the Smartboard.
• Brainstorming ideas can be written down, and then saved.
• Websites can be loaded and then interacted with on the board.

 Students:

• Lessons become interactive and interesting.
• The subject comes alive.
• It encourages the involvement of learners in the subject.
• Provides a different style of learning.
• The SMARTboard eliminates messy, unclear handwriting by teachers.
• Students can do everything from coming up and answering a question to playing an interactive educational game. 
• Don't have to smell the fumes that regular whiteboard markers produce (no chalk dust from chalk boards, either!)
• At the end of the day, students can write down one thing they learned from the day on the board. The teacher can then print out this sheet, and use it as a review sheet.

 

 

 

Resources

 

• http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/
• Smarter Smartboard Use
• Ten Smart Ideas for Using a Smartboard
• Smartboard Training
• Ideas for the Smart Board in the K-5 Classroom
• Interactive Programs
• http://www.theteachersguide.com/SmartBoards.htm
• http://www.bristolvaschools.org/mwarren/SBActivities.htm (Finding and creating SmartBoard lessons)
• http://www.e-learningforkids.org/ (Lessons by subject and age in a varitey of languages)
• http://arcytech.org/java.clock/ (Great tool if you are teaching students how to tell time.)
• http://www.bristolvaschool.org/mwarren/SBonline.htm (Ideas and tools to use on smartboard)

 

Budget Friendly SmartBoards

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html

 

this is a site that gives an example of a budget friendly approach to the SmartBoard within the classroom.