Advantages: interactive, great display, useful resources, great teaching tool Disadvantages: pens and remote too easy to steal, callibration issues
interactiveboards). However, if you are looking for a teaching job ? one thing you will want to consider is what teaching tools will be available to you. I have worked with both types of board and would much prefer to work in a school with SMARTboards opposed to Prometheans. The reasons for this I will explain in a minute. Due to the fact that the technical ins and outs are not really going to be of much use to anyone in this review, I will first explain what the board is and then explore the advantages and pitfalls.
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What is a SMARTboard?
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SMARTboards have existed since 1991 when the first ever interactivewhiteboard was created, and today they are the leading brand. The SMARTboard is a touch sensitive board, which is displayed on a wall (looking similar to the old school ...
Advantages: Easy to use, for presentations ect.... Disadvantages: Projector, Oreintation.........
time you come to use it, you will have to re-orientate the board. To do this you have to touch the centre of the spot located on the board so that the board knows where to click when you touch. Another downside is that there is no right click.
OTHER STUFF-
I can imagine these screens being good if you had DVD-ROM on your computer because then you could watch a film in a true cinema style!!!
It costs at least £1500!!! (Not cheap!) And apparently it is easy to install once you have bought a projector!!
OVERALL-
I would recommend this mainly to businesses and secondary schools but not just as a toy! The only real downside is that they cost around £2000 by the time you have bought the cables, Smartboard and projector.
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Advantages: Easy to use, robust Disadvantages: Not as accurate as pen based and heavy
First of all, an introduction to my relationship with this product. I commissioned the purchase of twelve of them to go to twelve different schools. At the time we were looking for an interactivewhiteboard that came in at £1000 or as near as possible. This board then did exactly that. On to the details.
INTRODUCTION
For those that don't know an interactivewhiteboard is a clever piece of kit that allows a user at the front of an audience or class to interact with information on the screen being projected there by a computer. At it's most simple it records everything written on the screen with normal pens to a sketchpad, allows programs to be opened, closed and manipulated, and increasingly comes with a handwriting recognition piece of software. These are gaining popularity in schools and I think have a definite place in such ...
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Do more, experience more, grow more. More space, with larger screen sizes. More style, with a new design. More options, with new USB speakers and an expansion slot. Inspired by feedback from the customers, the new SMART Board 600 series interactive whiteboard lets you do more than ever before. Combining the same great features that people love with new expandability options, it's limited only by your imagination.
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