Okay, you are ready to start another new year and, like many other educators, your principal has given you a shiny new iPad. But you really aren’t sure how you can use it. Here is one thing you can do quickly, easily, and with great results: Use your iPad with your SMART Board in class using the Reflection App.
Reflection is not an app for your iPad, but rather an app for your computer that allows you to share your iPad screen with your SMART Board. The best part of the app is that it allows you to pick up a pen and annotate over the top of the image from your iPad, with your annotations immediately displaying on the board. Capturing the image is as easy as clicking the Smart Ink on the top (Notebook 11) and selecting the camera button. This will send the image of your iPad along with the annotations you have made into Notebook. From there you can continue annotations or save the image. This strategy will make using your iPad as a document camera even more effective. You can use the camera app to capture the document and put it on your iPad. Then, just use Reflection and Smart Ink to capture that into Smart Notebook. From there you can model with or have students interact with that document.
So, this gives you one strategy you can use to make your both new iPad and your SMART Board more versatile, maximizing the technology you have to maximize your teaching!
Great stuff…does it only work with the Notebook software from SMART or will this also be enabled for the Meeting pro software and Bridgit?
Thanks!
This puts your image on your computer, so you can interact with it in many way. Yes, Meeting Pro and Bridgit would work well. Bridgit would be great for developers wanting to show off their apps, or collaborating about an app.
Is it still only available for Mac? My teachers with iPads have PCs
Yes! They do have it for Windows! I have talked to several people that think it is not available for Windows because at first it wasn’t, but now it is. I haven’t personally used it on Windows yet (well, once), so I’m not really sure if there are any differences. Download the trial. The trial will for only 10 minutes at a time, but should give you a good idea of how well it works. Please write back your thoughts!
Is there a way to interact with the ipad via smart board? I would love to have the students play bebot, animoog (on the smartboard)and other synths available only on ipad.
No. Apple has limited the ability of anything but a bluetooth keyboard to interact with the iPad. So until Apple changes it’s security, that really isn’t possible.
Well I tried it. My 10 minutes went pretty fast. Unfortunately, I don’t think it will do me any good because my school won’t do wireless!!! Crazy right. We have all this technology going in, but we are not allowed to have wireless. I was hoping to be able to project it to my smartboard. Oh well. Maybe next year.
Dana, My understanding is that the 10 minutes resets… so you can try again later. I have been in situations where there was no wireless or I couldn’t get on the wireless. I was able to use my computer to create an access point for my iPad to connect to. So if you plug in for internet, it is possible to use the computer’s wireless (if there is any, or you can get an inexpensive USB wireless) to create an adhoc network for just the iPad to connect directly to the computer and use ReflectorApp (as they call it now) that way. It is a possibility and might just work.