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What
is a SMART Interactive Whiteboard?
Siimply use your finger
on an interactive whiteboard to control any application projected on the
screen in the same way you use a mouse at your computer. The large
screen is an input device, so every touch on the interactive whiteboard
conveys information to the computer. Your screen touch is a left click,
and pen tray pen contacts become digital ink.
District 91's current
SMART interactive whiteboard use analog-resistive technology. With any
screen contact, the front sheet touches the back sheet of the hardware.
Make sure your contact with the interactive whiteboard is firm, because
you must close the air gap between these two sheets. This contact point,
along with any pen tool information, is sent to the computer where the
information is translated into computer coordinates.
For the screen to
function properly, you must orient the interactive whiteboard.
Most interactive
whiteboards have a pen tray that holds the pens and the eraser. The pen
tray also has buttons to open SMART Keyboard and to right-click. Each
slot of the pen tray has a sensor that detects when a tool is removed.
If you lose a pen, put another non-reflective object in the slot.
Otherwise, the software will sense the tool's absence and assume that
you are using it. For example, if you lose the red pen and you don't put
something in the empty slot, red digital ink will appear beneath your
finger every time you touch the interactive whiteboard.
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