I received this email from a rep of this company. If anyone is interested in checking it out, the information is below.
Hi Matt,
Apologies for the unsolicited email but I saw your website and thought you might find the matter of interest. I am writing to ask if I can interest you in taking a look at our new SMART Board curriculum: Middle School Math for SMART Notebook. Written to take advantage of all of the great new features of Notebook 10, Middle School Math for SMART Notebook consists of 2…
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Added by Matt Granger on May 6, 2009 at 3:42pm —
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I'm at the ICE conference in St. Charles, IL. Katie Daugrid, GinnyWashburne, and Brady Phillips. We will cover new software and hardware.
Heeeerrrr's Brady! SMART follows Wayne Gretzky's philosophy, don't look at the puck. Look where it is going. That is what SMART does. Yes, they look at the market today and provide solutions. However, they also believe in setting the trends.
New Products
Smart Sync--Learning management software
Smart Notebook SE--Student edition. Students can personalize, or…
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Added by Matt Granger on February 26, 2009 at 4:17pm —
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SMART Technologies announces the third generation SMART Board 600i interactive whiteboard system. The new product line offers two screen formats - widescreen (16:10 aspect ratio) and standard (4:3 aspect ratio). Each model in the improved 600i line combines the SMART Board 600 series interactive whiteboard and one of two new boom-mounted, short-throw projectors, both of which offer longer bulb life and better image quality than previous generations. The 4:3 model integrates a UF55 projector, and…
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Added by Matt Granger on December 3, 2008 at 11:17am —
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I've recently listened to episode 144 of the
SMARTboard lesson podcast where Joan and Ben shared the book
Brain Rules, by John Medina, and how it translated to the SMARTboard. It was a great podcast, as usual. But the way they talked about the rules and implications for education compelled me to get the book. I downloaded it from
audible.com on Saturday and have listened t…
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Added by Matt Granger on October 15, 2008 at 2:26pm —
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On August 1st, Illinois Smart Education Consultant Ginny Washburne will be hosting a Smart Users Conference at Naperville Central HS in Naperville, IL. The address is 440 Aurora Ave. It is a free event. To sign up, go to this
google spreadsheet and fill out the form. For more information email Ginny at ginnywashburne@smarttech.com.
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Added by Matt Granger on July 8, 2008 at 7:00pm —
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A new version of Notebook is coming out, probably in January. A Beta testing period starts in August and goes to December. You can sign up to participate on the Smart website at
http://smarttech.com/NotebookSEbeta.
Notebook software has traditionally been teacher focused. Now it's moving to a student focus. This shows the iTunes like interface that kids are familiar with. He is also opening multiple files within the same notebook page and it cre…
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Added by Matt Granger on July 2, 2008 at 12:42pm —
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Bret Gensberg did two Smart Board sessions this morning at NECC. I'm sorry to say I missed the first one, but I'm glad I went to the second! He is a phenomenal speaker. He brings passion to his subject, which happened to be the Smart Board. According to him he "Eats, sleeps, and breaths Smart Board" and people give him money to buy more. He is available to come do professional development onsite for you, so if you are looking for a funny, passionate, and practical Smart related PD, contact him.…
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Added by Matt Granger on July 2, 2008 at 12:21pm —
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And it's free if you already have Senteo response systems! Coming late summer, August probably, is the new Senteo 2.0 software. It's a big improvement.
You can still get questions in as easily. The big change is the management side. There will be an integrated gradebook. You can tag students with demographic information to sort data by groups and compare their results to other groups or class average. You can import other grades from other sources (not sure of details on that) into the gradeboo…
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Added by Matt Granger on July 2, 2008 at 7:34am —
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Yes, I have the identical ELMO, but it will not work with the doc camera button on the Notebook 10 tool bar. It takes a few more clicks. The firmware is different and can't be updated. Bummer. That said, "Cool! "
However, if you are going to get document cameras, take a serious look at the Smart camera. Its sister, the ELMO camera, works great. The arm rotates and you can pretty much get to any angle or side of a 3D object. You just can't get to the bottom. :-( The picture is excellent and the…
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Added by Matt Granger on July 1, 2008 at 4:17pm —
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Coming in August (don't hold me to that--just a date given to me at the booth) will be a frame that can go around a plasma TV up to 65". It uses the cameras in the corners, like the big rear projection models they have, to turn your plasma TV into a Smart Board! Hook the display to your computer and that's what you have. They said that this is an example of "future proof" technology. That means that it is something that will work in the future because the price of the plasmas that big will be fa…
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Added by Matt Granger on July 1, 2008 at 3:59pm —
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I stopped by the Smart booth at NECC yesterday...cool stuff coming down the pike. One of the coolest is mode switching, or as it officially called, smart touch. How many of us have done this: you have the pen in your hand and then touch the board to move an object and draw a line instead? Come on, be honest. We've all done it. That is soon to be a thing of the past. Mode switching will make the board "smart" enough to know the difference between the pen tip, finger nail, finger pad, and whole ha…
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Added by Matt Granger on July 1, 2008 at 8:00am —
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My students have been doing a Joke of the Day podcast since November. I've advertised it in several arenas since then. There is a link for email comments, but we've not received one the whole time. They are losing interest because they think no one is listening. It's still a great activity, and they are learning a lot, but they would like some feedback.
Sooooo...If you could listen and comment. If you like it, listen a couple times a week and comment every few weeks. Have your students comment.…
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Added by Matt Granger on April 17, 2008 at 3:29pm —
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I am impressed by the high level of experience in our community. It is awesome to be a part of such a great community. For those who are just beginning with Smart Boards, don't be intimidated. Everyone was a novice at one time. Ask all your questions in the forum and watch for a flood of good ideas in return. The rest of us just need to remember that there are beginners here and answer accordingly. Don't assume they know all the lingo.
If any of you have your own edublogs, feel free to copy you…
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Added by Matt Granger on April 4, 2008 at 12:02am —
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