ActivBoards from Promethean
January 22, 2010
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During 2010-2011, we’ll replace some of our aging SMART Boards. Here are short video clips about one possible replacement — the Promethean ActivBoard, demonstrated at Pike on January 20, 2010, by Gayle Razzaboni from CBE Technologies. |
Magic Ink
Effects of the 2004 Tsunami
1 minute 18 seconds
Visual Effects
Percents, Decimals, and Fractions
40 seconds
Fractions as Parts of Wholes
2 minutes 18 seconds
Using a Protractor
1 minute 17 seconds
Presentations That You Can Hear As Well As See
14 seconds
Annotations
48 seconds
Other Comments
The ActivBoard is not touch-sensitive, so (unlike the SMART Board) it does not respond to your fingers. Instead, you use a pen to write on the board. This scheme has the advantage that when you or your students touch the board accidentally, annotations you’ve made do not disappear. In addition, the pen allows you to create lines and annotations that are thinner and more precise than you can do with your fingers. The scheme has the disadvantage, of course, of requiring a pen for writing. (The board detects the pen through an internal electromagnetic mesh.)
You must be careful not to write on the board with regular dry erase markers.
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