SMART Board – advantages and disadvantages of using a digital, interactive whiteboard (classroom)

Posted on: May 17th, 2010 By: admin Under: Calculators Articles

We use a smart card to teach the computer lab at school. In essence, the proposed SMART Board your digital projector / LCD projector image on an interactive whiteboard that you can write.

SMART Board itself has a large touch screen on your computer is connected. You use the digital projector to the computer screen displayed on the SMART Board and software allows you to touch and interact with your computer.
As more and more school boards andteachers are invested in data projectors, this begs the question whether SMART Boards are a good investment. After all, would have an intuitive feel and the ability to write on digital files (digital ink) help us to continue as whiteboards, flip chart paper and overhead projector.

Pro

With SMART Board, you can create an application control across the table alone. So instead of working behind the keyboard, you (or students) may be at the forefrontclassroom physically interact with the screen. You can use one of the four colors of markers or rubber to write with digital ink over applications, websites, or move. SMART Board is still working to lose the pen. (There are four color pencil and a rubber holder. If you lift the pen from the building, select the color or rubber. If you touch the screen, using the selected color or rubber) as other network software digital ink. programs, you can workin a Notepad file, and you can convert handwriting into text.

Disadvantages

Difficult to write. The biggest disappointment with the digital ink from the fact that a SMART Board is a front projection screen. This means that the projector is set on the front of the screen (like an overhead projector). This means that when you are between the projector and the screen, casting a shadow on the screen … right where you try to write. Sure it was nice to useprogram by tapping the screen, but it was hard to write notes, because you are constantly blocking the image. Difficult to write legibly. To be honest, it was a bit 'disappointing as we turned the writing on the SMART Board. Better than our experience with other digital pens (such as a pen), but the writing was still great, blocks and messy. One of the things that you must train to do is not to lean on the SMART Board. If you are on a blackboard to writeor white board, you usually place the edge of the palm on the table. If you have a touch screen, the cursor moves to the palm and that does not work. You have to train to only write with the pen tip. The pointer works well if you want to circle or underline key ideas, but if you change or revision of 12-point double-spaced Word document, have a difficult time for the necessary control. It's still going back and forth movement of the onscreen keyboard.We begin our browser goes to the SMART Board, but when it was time to go to the website, we had to return to the table to type the URL to go. Expensive. The total cost of ownership of a SMART Board to prohibit the teacher. Selling price for a 77? (195.6 cm) front projection SMART Board interactive whiteboard is $ 1,399 (USD) with a grant to send Canada. (Www.SmarterKids.org) Do you have your own data projector to deliver. A newdecent projector costs about $ 500 – $ 1,000 SMART Board is a giant touch pad. You need the projector to give the image displayed on the smart board. (Cable Connection software, and is included), you can upgrade to a wireless connection ($ 199 USD) for the cables down and up and down the dangers in class .. Image and SMART Board touch screen, knocked out of adjustment. This means that when you try to press a mouse buttoncursor appears within a few inches to the side. You need your hardware to interrupt the lesson pages.

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