June 23, 2021

Talinda East Africa: The Future is Interactive – Smart Boards

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The Future is Interactive – Smart Boards

Wouldn’t it be fun if in your weekly brainstorm with the team, two colleagues can write comments and points raised during the meeting at the same time on a whiteboard or label the new targets discussed? This kind of collaboration can be achieved with an interactive white board.

With an array of settings, for classrooms, boardrooms in corporate, to trainings; the interactive whiteboard IWB is highly utilized as a large interactive display board. During meetings, presentations, classes and trainings the interactive whiteboards reacts to the user’s input whether it’s brainstorming, collaborate, digitized operations and tasks, sharing messages, presentations, annotating content, images and documents in real time directly on the screen using a finger or a tool.

An interactive whiteboard (IWB), commonly referred to as a smart board or interactive board, is a large interactive display board that is in the form factor of a whiteboard. In the past, whiteboards were manufactured and designed for office use in small meetings rooms and brainstorming round tables.

How it works?

In essence, a smart board will only function when connected to a computer, an LCD display, and a projector. Therefore, displaying content from a computer screen. Once connected, the IWB transforms into a large, touch sensitive version of the computer screen. Teachers and students can control the screen with a special pen or hand instead of a mouse. So in the case of a classroom, students and teachers interact with images, write notes, draw graphs, save, download and share info from the smart board.

Did you know?

SMART Board is actually a brand of interactive manufactured by SMART Technologies. It is connected to a PC and works in conjunction with a projector, which displays what is on the computer screen. With its advanced technology, you can manipulate anything displayed. Previously, older models of the SMART board only had one point of contact onto the board, thus many people could not touch the board simultaneously. It had to be one at a time. Upgraded versions today have multi-touch technology allowing up to 4 students to collaborate and brainstorm on the board responding to multiple touches at the same time.

5 Ways interactive whiteboard collaboration improves workflow with teams:

Increase engagement in collaborative meetings

Rather than have hour long sessions with one-way presentations shared on PowerPoint, the IWB helps colleagues engage with the shared information. They can access, edit, save and share information discussed on the interactive whiteboard.

Boost your communication

Interactive whiteboards are quite versatile allowing file sharing as well as the ability to share the screen with remote coworkers and clients. Thus al attendees have the same content of information. At the end of the presentation, the meeting facilitator will email, print and share the proceedings of the whiteboarding session.

Ability to effectively annotate your presentation documents

Make continuous changes effectively to your documents during your whiteboarding sessions with the IWB. Your modern team will enjoy the power of 3D modeling, hyperlinking, estimating, video links and other tools accessible that boost the quality of your collaboration and communication.

More interconnectivity and data sharing with mobile connectivity compatibility

Interactive whiteboards give you the freedom to connect to Android and IOS smart devices in one single application. With the right hardware, users can connect interactive whiteboards to IOS and Android smart devices with a single application. This results in a greater allowing more data interconnectivity and sharing.

Information is available to your fingertips with Touch technology

Unlike in document sharing, with IWBs users can use their fingers to work with the touch screen without needing pointers, a mouse or even getting ink stains everywhere.

Why is an Interactive White Board better for collaborating than screen sharing?

Basically, whiteboarding allows businesses to convert whiteboard collaboration to almost parallel editing. Most importantly it works well when colleagues are working with a client or outside party they are not well versed with. A whiteboard provides a very spontaneous setting for brainstorming and sharing ideas with opposing teams reducing formality.

The future of education is interactive

Today, every classroom can benefit from a SMART board. The full range of interactive whiteboards are designed to provide simplicity teachers and their students want. Smart boards are powerful teaching tools. They optimize remote learning and get all your students engaged by allowing you to connect your devices and technology in the classroom making it a smart investment in your education budget.

Benefits to the classroom:

High quality and affordable displays
Perfect tool for connecting the student, teachers and their devices, content and learning experiences.
Simple. Smart boards deliver simplicity teachers desire. They require low cost of ownership and are easy to deploy and support.
Supports IOS, Android and Chrome

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