Positioning yourself and touching the board - Using the SMARTboard Part 3
Channel: Andy Hoang
Date: 2012-09-21

The third part of a session held at Roehampton University in September 2012 with students from Boston, this session was an introduction to using the SMARTboard Interactive whiteboard from SMART Technologies. The course is aimed at beginners to intermediates and uses SMART Notebook 10.3

In this session, we make first contact with the board and I give some tips on how to stand and how to touch the board to make it do what you want. Remember the board is like a teaching partner - It will tell you when you're not standing correctly by obscuring the screen or making you squint. Make sure that you pay attention to the board when it does this and adjust your body position accordingly.

Also, the board is tougher than you think. Make sure that you press firmly and with conviction when you want it to do something. Touch it too lightly and it will get confused. Remember that the best users of SMARTboards have flat fingertips from where they press the board firmly

In summary, you need to make sure that when using the board you stand out of the way of the board and make firm contact with it when you touch it. This way you won't confuse your students or the board