Lets go back to the beginning.
A new take on Smartboards
I actually walked away from tonight presentation of the Smartboard fairly excited. It seems like a massively simplified Flash mixed with Powerpoint. Right now with my limited experience with the program I feel it will be best used as a review tool for my students, currently I would like my lecture and information sections of my teacher to be bolstered with podcast, Imovie, and the rare usage of Powerpoint.
There are two glaring problems I see so far with the Notebook program. The first being a almost nonexistent grid layout (a page split in quadrants is hardly a grid). How can we properly align items on the page and respect the almighty grid when it only runs one line on the Y axis and one line on the X? I suppose if it had a ruler that would help the anemic grid system, but that's nowhere to be seen as well, guess I will just have to guess where my picas are.
I don't want to berate the program to much because I really have not had any time in the driver's seat yet, and I'm actually pretty hopeful for the potential it holds. I am very worried about the design flaws it carries with it, but I will just have to work around those, I'm sure over the next few years they will resolve it anyway. I truly feel Smartboards will be used extensively in anticipatory sets and wrap-ups in my classroom.
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