Author: stacef

We use Jostens. I have a class of 12 girls each year who take yearbook as their elective, Sept. to mid-March. They do everything from theme selection, to organizing the order of the 80 pages, to layout for each double-page spread, all the photography (except for the individual class photos), image adjustments and enhancements in…

We installed 5 of them in different classrooms over a span of 3-5 years and they are doing nothing but collecting dust now. None of the teachers like to use them (either because they see them as being too much of a hassle to use or they are still stuck in the stone-age). We have…

I can echo a LOT of what I’ve read. We piloted some SMARTBoards, not a lot of joy there. They could not be used with regular markers. Software was awful. We tried the touchscreen version over a big screen and had some success with our music department. Our art teachers rebelled against the overlay because…

Before we stuck our baby Ed tech toe into the SmartBoard pond, we went out on fact finding mission to some schools and observed how they were using the boards. In most cases it seemed like they used them as overpriced white boards. In some they complained that they liked them but that teachers needed…

My experience with Smart has been mostly positive. I guess my expectations are not too high for them or any interactive board. Basically, we need a digital screen with audio that easily accepts multiple device inputs and has a fairly standard teacher interface. The interactive component and related resources are great, but only a small…