Jihad Khalil

 SMART BOARD

ICT (Information and communication technology/ies) is something related to any kind of communication technology in which we humans can communicate, some of the common known ICT are any communication devices and applications such as Satellite, Radio, TVs, cellular phones, computers, networks, hardware and softwares.4

Accordingly, there are some common ICT resources, in which we always use whenever, talk about ICT. These kinds of recourses include Internet, Emails and word-process. But if I describe an ICT resource which is available to me or my students, I can say it is Smart board

 Smart board or a computer screen?

However, as you may see the name itself, it has been designed to work with computer and projector, without computer and projector it doesn’t work.  Together with the projector and computer, Smart board enables us to gently and smoothly write something, click on it, drag an object on in it, move an object on it, close, minimize, maximize and even open a software program, instead of sitting with the computer and using mouse all the time which is very hard work.

Technical accessories

A Smart Board installation contains a pen tray on the front of the interactive whiteboard that holds two to four plastic pen tools and an eraser. The pen tools have neither electronic components nor ink - the technology is in the pen tray, but how it works?

When a pen tool is removed from its slot in the tray, an optical sensor stills be aware that the pen I question is missing (on use) as a result Smart Board software reaction processes the next contact with the interactive whiteboard surface as a pen action from the pen tool that resides in the corresponding slot.

Whenever a pen tool is removed from its slot, you can be able to write in the selected color with that pen tool you have already chosen You can even as a result use your finger or any other object to write with as the sensors understood this action as an writing action as long as the pen is missing from its slot.  Similarly, when the eraser is removed from its position in the pen tray, the software processes the next contact with the screen as an erasing action as long as the eraser is missing from the slot.

When pens will in any reason miss their original locations from the slot, than the color in use will be only the missing one on the slot and not the one you have in your hand.

Smart board is a useful digital pedagogic instrument

Smart board has become a necessity and a useful device when it comes to modern education and learning processes.

This new IT-innovation has made things better and improved the planning of teaching. All about information and mediation of science, literature and teaching in all disciplines a school may have in its yearly or semester learning programmes.

We all know that Smart board can be expensive device as well as also new technology which need special kind of treatment. I would like to justify that for me I only focus and concentrate how use full is Smart board both teachers and students.

Smart Board has come to stay, this is an irreversible technical and digital way of teaching in all levels, most practice, fast, easy, modern, above all the most audio-visual innovation ever made. As per the technology designed to full fill the needs of the teachers, Smart board is very friendly device which was designed to as touch screen, when teachers want to use it they can just point their finger by pointing on Smart board rather than by clicking and using mouse which is sometimes difficulty. Teachers use smart board when they want to show a move, clips and games to their students in a very smart and simple manner than projector.

Students also find very useful by using Smart board, when they are going to present a presentation or group assignment, they use just like teachers, and they can explain something on it by clarifying on the Smart board. Students enjoy this new technology as they are themselves IT-generation in many cases they master the new technique better than their own teachers!

Smart board, an affair that pays off

Smart board is an effective, profitable, practice and modern device for all actors: students, schools and institutions, tax payers etc... It can minimize the cost and maximise the profit, because whenever we use smart board we don’t need to purchase white boards, flipcharts and pens, which may cost too much. Smart board minimizes costs because we use to purchase white board and other completing belonging things like flipcharts, white boards every year.

New digital technology

Smart board is a necessity for all of us, this technical innovation has digitalised all our disciplines in schools and enhanced the teachers ´roll and made the mediation of many school disciplines easily.

You can talk about maths, biology, geography, maps, geometry, physics, chemistry, or whatever, like documentaries, entertainment, live sending music, companies´ and political meeting, news of different horns of the world or simply reading newspapers and listening to music or film sequences of different origins.

Smart Board is not only smart, but magic and a new world for schoolteachers and students alike!