in the past couple years most of the classrooms in the math and science departments of my school have received SMART boards, which I don't know if any of you have seen. they're like small whiteboards that coordinate a projector with a touch-sensitive surface so teachers can draw shit and organize stuff they'd write on the board, and add interactivity.
does anyone else have these, and do you like them?
Some of our rooms have smart boards. We also have Isis.
I think they are pretty badass
Yeah I'd say about half of my classes have SMARTboards bassir;
They're alright.
Nope, or if we do they've never been used.
My school system has a lot of smartboards but for some reason they only give them to the elementary schools or the slow/"dumb" classes. My college level Bio class? Nothing like that, we don't even get a real lab room, my Calc class? Supposed to get a smartboard but hasn't happened yet. Yet go into a 9th grade English class and you'll find one...
Just giant-movie sized screens which display the notes
Yay lecture halls
Yea we have Smart boards. Actually my school district has had them since I was in elementary school
There's one in my Chemistry class and one on Financing, but the rest of my classes have none. befuddlement
Yeah we have Smart boards.
my middle school & high school have smart boards
sometimes they're useful, other times they just sit there.
In english we hardly ever use the smart board.
Yeah my school has smart boards. Most teachers except my calc and law teachers have no idea how to use the functions other than simply writing on them.
Quote from: orlovsky on February 02, 2009, 06:21:32 PM
in the past couple years most of the classrooms in the math and science departments of my school have received SMART boards, which I don't know if any of you have seen. they're like small whiteboards that coordinate a projector with a touch-sensitive surface so teachers can draw shit and organize stuff they'd write on the board, and add interactivity.
does anyone else have these, and do you like them?
In the past couple years almost every teacher has received a smart board.
I swear on my life, NONE of them are hooked up.
We have smart boards. We also have these over head projectors that record what's on the table it's over and put it on the screen or whatever.
Oh and we have these texting devices that you can use to text your answers to teachers or whatever.
Richie rich
A rich public school
yes
i am indifferent to them
Quote from: Forest Hiro on February 02, 2009, 07:15:41 PM
A rich public school
That doesn't make me rich. We have plenty of people on welfare and discounted lunches or whatever at my school.
Just not me giggle;
Yay for you david, glad life's treatin ya nicely. Btw this isn't sarcastic
Quote from: Forest Hiro on February 02, 2009, 07:46:30 PM
Yay for you david, glad life's treatin ya nicely. Btw this isn't sarcastic
It sounds sarcastic :(
This is the first year we've had our SMARTboards, and nearly every person on the faculty is too god damn stupid to operate it correctly.
Even our "Technology administrator" is a fucking retard.
All of our classes have SMART boards.They're hardly ever used.
We have one smart board.
Waste of money.
My school is too poor to afford them.
Many, many of our classrooms have SMART boards, and all the science classes have computer projectors.
we don't even have paint on some walls..
we definitely don't have smart boards.
There are a very small amount of SMART boards in my school, I'd guess about 4.
The social studies department head at my school was my American Government teacher last year and she was getting a SMART board in the last month of the school year. Had problems with it right away, swapped for one in the school's media center, then used it only twice or so. Otherwise I've never seen those boards anywhere else.
The boards on classroom walls are still chalkboards. My school doesn't even have marker boards.
SMART boards are okay. They really don't add too much to anything, my mom has one in her classroom. Great design but unless they're using programs like a physics engine for a physics class (moving objects that are simple to program) they're going to waste.
well, we had something like that last year in 6th grade but like(not in my classroom though), but my middle school doesn't have any. I forgot what the hell they were called but not 'SMART' boards lol. However, every damn classroom that had it, the teachers kept playing with the fatass pen and kept screwing around and were such morons(that thought they were operating the most complex machinery in the world) that one managed to even break a pen, and another somehow got a whole right side of the projection to screw and so there's half of it working.They're no different from the regular whiteboards other than the markers don't smell or run out of ink.
We just have a bunch of crappy $5000 overheads with no special features aside from 'freeze', allowing a teacher to take a sheet of paper off the machine and have the stuff stay displayed.
Quote from: Pancake Paraphernalia on February 02, 2009, 11:44:27 PMThey're no different from the regular whiteboards other than the markers don't smell or run out of ink.
That's not true, you can click on parts and draw as if it were the mouse cursor. This would be handy with making mechanical drawings, like physics.
Quote from: Pancake Persona on February 03, 2009, 01:51:49 AM
We just have a bunch of crappy $5000 overheads with no special features aside from 'freeze', allowing a teacher to take a sheet of paper off the machine and have the stuff stay displayed.
Yeah that's what we have.