Everything has to be premade and preset so in the actual presentation, all one would need to do is scroll or click through touching the interactive screen. A smart board works just like a normal white board, except that the person do not use a whiteboard pen or a marker in writing on it, but uses touch detection or pens with digital ink for user input and execution of tasks.
As years passed by and technology became more and more advanced, Smart Technologies, developer of the Smart Board has made significant innovations with the material. They were able to allow dual-touching in the interactive board. Some more years later, multi-touching has been enabled. But then, of course, there are competitions. Promethean World, an international education corporation that supports teaching and learning through technological innovations, developed their version of the interactive board years after the Smart Board was released.
They aren't, however, two completely similar things. The ActivBoard works in the same way the Smart Board does, but the former allows students to use it through a handheld device.
The Smart board has to have a separate projector that has more wires, etc. Depending on your students. I think the Promethean board though still has more features using their software compared to the Smart board. I'm not totally sure about the differences. My school division has both. My school has the smart boards, but most of the schools have promethean. I know that one main difference is that the smart boards can use the finger touch to write or move things.
I do know that the two softwares are not interchangeable. I believe that promeathean can use smart but not the other way around. Our projectors are mounted on the ceiling so there are no wires around. No sales persons talked only technology directors and teachers. They all like Promethean, even the ones that previously had Smartboards.
Since the information didn't come from sales people I tend to believe it more. I will have to follow this thread as it has more information than any other that I have investigated. This is in large part due to what the Operating Systems allow more than a lack of concern for parity. The functionality is all there, the processes may be slightly different using save as PDF instead of Notebook Print Capture for example.
I would be willing to answer any other questions for you. My email is cklein smarttech. I look forward to hearing from you. One thing that they are is that their boards are also dry erase boards.
Not like some of the others. When space is important, teachers dont have alot of room. Why try and find another wall to mount something when 3m does it all in one. Our teachers love them and we just ordered 19 more. They are the same price as Promethean and activeboards and have double the use.
I even had a chance to demo a Smart board and talk to a sales rep. I wanted to know about the Smart clickers and how they compare with the Promethean's ActivExpressions. The sales rep almost yelled at me about how students should not be allowed to text responses into a text device.
I was a bit blown away. I asked her to clarify. She said that the technology would just be abused by teachers and that there was no real value in having the kids send their answers to the board. I was not sure if she had ever herd about formative assessment or not, but I tried to keep an open mind. During my evaluation process I came to several conclusions. The dirtiest part of the classroom are the students hands. No matter how often we remind them, they pick their noses and dig in theirs, and put their fingers god knows where I don't even want to think about what happens in the bathrooms.
We encourage them to keep clean, but with 30 kids, it's hard. I don't want to be rubbing my fingers all over the surface of a board the kids have been rubbing on. Call me a heartless or crass, but I don't thing is sanitary. At least with a Promethean pen, I can have one, and I can let the students use the other. One of the big selling features of the Smart board, I was told, was that the kids could through an object at the board in order to trigger a page turn.
I own a 50" plasma TV. If my two boys came home from school and tossed an object at the TV I would go nuts. I just don't think it's a good idea to teach kids to through objects at expensive technology.
By the way, How much do projectors and bulbs cost? Whacking one with a ball has got to be a bad idea. One of the most important things I have to teach my students is penmanship. Touch is a very natural interactivity. Penmanship requires the development of fine motor skills and eye had coordination.
When I was writing on the Smart board with my finger, I could not see where my mark was being made. I could only see the effects of my writing after I had written on the board. I noticed when I held the Promethean pen, the accuracy was more pronounced and I could write in cursive much more clearly. I'm not sure why Smart even has pens? I thought pens were "bad" and touch was "good"?
There are also older rear projection versions that don't. Do research before making a comment. The interactive board world is changing quickly - and more players are entering since Promethean and Smart captured such a huge chunk of the market.
Almost every software program can be used with the boards, whatever brand you buy. You may just have to access it differently - but you can still use the interactive board features. Your school district is spending too much on the setup to lock yourself just into Promethean or SmartBoard for the sake of their software.
Something reputable with a citation, please, rather than heresay. Smythe Guest Dr. Smythe Guest Promethean , PM My district bought promethean boards for every classroom in every school.
Thats thousands of boards. They are SO awesome and are a great tool for learning. If a stylus breaks on the Promethean you cannot use the board until you get a new one. So it has strong links. If you want to not have kids touch the SMART Board or you don't you pick up a pen, click on the black arrow in Notebook and your pen is a stylus. You have both choices. You can use anything rather than a finger if you do that.
Just like any other thing that kids touch in the classroom. I recommend look into this more!!! It could have been either brand as far as I am concerned. I understand that there is much software and resources available for each. I'm straight pumped, and so are the kiddos! The board I will be getting includes a short throw projector--no shadow when someone is at the board!
And so far, I've already seen that much of what is available at Promethean Planet all free will have to be molded for my own classroom anyway. I encounter the same thing anytime I get any kind of lesson from another source.
After reading all the talk about the boards, I'm beginning to get my hopes up about getting a wireless tablet with my board. I'll be checking with my tech director on that one. I'm just excited about the new avenues for learning!
Even if all they have is an experienced teacher there at school train you, -but there are free training opportunities available in many states. The second year I forced myself to teach a weeks worth of lessons on it and never used a regular whiteboard again.
You can create lessons in advance and manipulate them, fill them in with problem solving, or any number of things, then save and print them out for absent students, special ed students or any one else who needs them.
SMART has lots of teacher created lessons and activities. I have used each board and each software. The first thing I noticed is that the smart software is WAY more intuitive. The first time I sat down to use it I was figuring out things like crazy! Promethean's software, although just as powerful, is not nearly as easy to figure out. I am a teacher who does not like to be stuck in any one program. Smart software makes navigating from program to program much easier. I can open ANY program or website and annotate without having to go through any red tape.
It seems each of these softwares is trying to make powerpoint programs somewhat obsolete. They each will import powerpoints, but what if I just want to keep my ppts how they are and just annotate on top of them? This is much easier with Smart. People keep commenting on delay of the writing.
Each product can have this. You just need to recalibrate or in promethean's case, it could have a defective pen. You need to consider that with promethean, if you lose your pen, or it breaks, you have NO WAY of writing on your board. With smart, you always have your fingers handy.
I don't know either software in-depth, but as a very technology literate 2nd year teacher, I think smart software is much more easy to use. I am interested to know more about using one board or the other with both softwares.
I will have both when I receive my new board and wonder if they will work fine. Isn't each board just a glorified mouse-pad on the wall? It should work with either software, right? After reading your message, it looks like I still can use everything I have created in the SBoard. How about the elmo, slate, and the active expression?
Are they compatible with the SBoard? Please help. Promethean is made by teachers,for teachers and it shows in their online community. Almost , teachers and 15, free lesson plans all contributed by teachers using their equipment which tells you how easy and effective it must be.
No comparison. Promethean wins this battle easily. By the way. I own a Smartboard and use Promethean software and their community website. I had the hardware and had no choice on that front. But I do have a choice about the software and the community and I made it. Can't post a url here but do a search for Promethean Planet and see for yourself.
They are pretty new and seem really cool you can write on it with dry-erase markers! Wanted some feedback. Like what? I've used Promethean, Smart, Hitachi, and Mimio. While the software for Hitachi and Mimio is clearly inferior to the two main players, Promethean and Smart can do exactly the same thing. Promethean calls them flip charts. Smart calls them notebooks. BTW, Hitachi can support either product. Like previous posts, the issue comes down to support.
If you take them time to objectively learn about the software from non-sales people, you'll find they're really very similar. Which can you support?
The demos performed by both companies are designed to highlight the capabilities of the technology, not merely to execute some fancy sales pitch. It sounds like you just don't know what you're doing. Your "problem" with syncing the clickers was likely explained in the demo that you thought was a sales pitch. We were amazed!! The board continued normal functionality, except for a small area around the hole. With the ActivSlate, you use the exact same stylus that you use to control the board.
I consider it a pro because when you are writing, you can touch your hand to the board without it messing up your writing. With the SmartBoard, I found it very awkward to write with a stylus. Now, Promethean makes their own projectors, and their quality is much better. SMART allows the user to use their pen or their finger to manipulate objects while Promethean uses the pen.
Both companies have powerful software loaded with activities and features. I want to design lesson plans and provide to teachers. I would like to say, that my school just purchased the brand new ActivBoards, and I would never go back to a SmartBoard. The new activboards have motorized height adjustment, and now can support 2 pens writing at the same time.
The pens are a little stiff at first, but after you have them broken in, they work very well. The new activboards are much more sleek and stylish also. Instead of being that weird orange color, they are now silver and black, and the projector, instead of being orange, is silver. AND-I just found out about this today. There are black stylus's for the teacher, and grey ones for students. This feature is very cool. The black stylus's can do everything, and act as a mouse.
This gives the teacher a great advantage. Have you noticed one being better than the other yet? When you reply does it notify the initial person who posted the message? Sorry, new at this! With the Permithean board can more than one child interact at a time whereas Smartboard doesn't have that capability?
Can you expand on my question and help me to better understand how the two are different in the aspect of multi-users? IT is you poorly named "Technowiz" that is full of lies and deceit. Check your stats. That's it. A second-grade class watched a cartoon explaining addition tables and answered questions posed by the teacher, and a third-grade teacher scrolled through a slideshow presentation on coastal Native American tribes.
Perhaps the most noticeable improvement for teachers is the move away from projector-based technology. Even with ceiling-mounted projectors, SMART Boards required frequent re-calibration to ensure that pointing and drawing devices worked accurately — a common complaint among frequent users.
The Promethean panels promise a lifespan of about 10 years, Berry says. The district now estimates it installed SMART Boards in 3, to 3, classrooms; a spokesman could not give an exact figure.
The money will come from the Capital Programs budget, which is funded by a voter-approved penny sales tax.
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