Comments on: Hurry up & Wait – My New Interactive Whiteboard: Part II

By: janiceenberg

janiceenberg — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:04:07 +0000

I feel I might introduce my self here. My name is Kate, I’m a newbie here, someone told me that i might find some good information here so… basically that’s why I’m here, and for any good advice i might get also… hope to have good time here

By: JS

JS — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:58:26 +0000

Demand for whiteboards are through the roof these days and SMART boards are in back order, but that is BS on the dealers part. Has your school checked out Hitachi StarBoard they were pretty quick with shipping?

By: durllicle

durllicle — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:25:27 +0000

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By: messeefly

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By: heather

heather — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:50:30 +0000

love this story. Thanks for your comment and your encouraging words. I just updated my website with a new post, “Oh The Wells Fargo Wagon is a’coming…” in which I chronicle my embarrassment at listening to those nay-sayers who said my whiteboard would never come. Hope you like the new post. Anyway, I appreciate the encouraging words. I’m a little intimidated by the work necessary to create a whole library of curriculum for it, but after I’m done, I know it will be a great tool in the classroom. Thanks again for your post and I hope to hear from you again real soon.
-Heather
aka Tweenteacher

By: Rho

Rho — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:54:33 +0000

Our district woouldn’t buy them; “budget restrictions” even though I asked for less than $100 in supplies for two years in a row and asked for the SmartBoard both years.
Finally bought my own, front projection, 600i, and my husband and I and a helpful janitor installed it one afternoon before school started last year. It took about 1 month from ordering, but I kept on the rep to get it at the time promised. I even got her to come down from headquarters and give me a free run-through after I got in up and running.
Now, after using it for a year and having this past summmer to work on lessons-was it worth all of our vacation momey for two years? Absolutely, yes! It is a time saver to have everything THERE, ready to go, usable and reusable, and I take care to back up my files on the laptop every month because so much of my lessons are in that laptop now.
My kids are getting good at using it for presentations and class work. They know how expensive it was and help me keep it in good shape- not one mark or scratch on it at all.

By: Mike Albert

Mike Albert — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:44:57 +0000

The worst part is definitely the wait. The actual school site is never a priority for the district or the supplier — they know who to take care of, and it isn’t anyone in a classroom.

But when the board comes and is mounted, you’ll definitely enjoy it, and so will your students.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:01:08 +0000

I don’t which brand you went with but my SMARTBoard arrived the week before school started. (However, the district took three months to mount it.)

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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:42:00 +0000

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By: David Cohen

David Cohen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:44:39 +0000

Ouch! What a bummer of a way to start the year.

In our district, the big push is for all teachers to use Blackboard/In-Class to provide information and grades online. The updated grades are sort of an addiction for certain students and parents, helping to shift the focus of concern to scores rather than learning. Many of my students and their parents are disappointed that I don’t use it – but the main obstacle is not my philosophical ambivalence, but rather, the clunky and limited interface that is wholly inadequate and inefficient. Sad part is, the company acknowledged they needed to upgrade it, gathered lots of information about what we wanted, and delivered a new version that exacerbates the problems. Some of us are encouraging a defection – we’ll see if we end up still doing business with these folks down the line. To be fair, other functions of In-Class are quite useful and do help students to be more responsible. I use those functions consistently, though the interface is still a bit cluttered, we’ve managed.

I was also thinking about this in terms of business cards – yes, my district pays for business cards. We can upload the info and choose the design and number we want to order. The options will cost my school anywhere from $10-$20. I requested the $20 package – color ink on white card stock, 200 cards. It better be approved. I use my cards quite a bit, and I’m figuring all the administrators get the one they want!

Keep fighting the good fight, Heather!