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I have been teaching first grade in a small rural school district for the past 29 years. I am just completing my third year of teaching with a SMARTBoard and I can’t imagine teaching…"
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I sit on the B.O.E. for a small parochial school and have been trying to research Smartboards. Our school purchased one last year and I see no diference between that and a computer with a projector. It took every cent of the P.T.O. to purchase and now the B.O.E. is wanting to purchace another. We have an extreemly outdated computer room and it is either a Smartboard or Computer Lab update. With out statistics I am opposed to Smartboards until our Comp. Lab is correctly updated. Am I missing…See More
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I sit on the B.O.E. for a small parochial school and have been trying to research Smartboards. Our school purchased one last year and I see no diference between that and a computer with a projector. It took every cent of the P.T.O. to purchase and now the B.O.E. is wanting to purchace another. We have an extreemly outdated computer room and it is either a Smartboard or Computer Lab update. With out statistics I am opposed to Smartboards until our Comp. Lab is correctly updated. Am I missing…See More
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- 1-3 years
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- I sit on the B.O.E. for a small parochial school and have been trying to research Smartboards. Our school purchased one last year and I see no diference between that and a computer with a projector. It took every cent of the P.T.O. to purchase and now the B.O.E. is wanting to purchace another. We have an extreemly outdated computer room and it is either a Smartboard or Computer Lab update. With out statistics I am opposed to Smartboards until our Comp. Lab is correctly updated. Am I missing something that makes this Smartboard a better investment than our Computer Lab when it would cost all of our money and only service the 8th grade class room?
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Am I missing something?
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I sit on the B.O.E. for a small parochial school and have been trying to research Smartboards. Our school purchased one last year and I see no diference between that and a computer with a projector. It took every cent of the P.T.O. to purchase and now the B.O.E. is wanting to purchace another. We have an extreemly outdated computer room and it is either a Smartboard or Computer Lab update. With out statistics I am opposed to Smartboards until our Comp. Lab is correctly updated. Am I missing…
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- At 5:40pm on April 23, 2012,
Matt Granger said… Tim, These are good questions. You should start thread in the Want Ads and Help! forum with some of these questions to get feedback from the community.
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