How can you use your SMART Board wirelessly? I have been asked this by several teachers, so I thought I would make a video showing you how! This is true wireless, where the computer can be anywhere in the classroom. This allows you to sit anywhere in the classroom and use your computer with the SMART Board. As this video shows, there is a short delay between when you write and when you see your writing on the board, but overall it is great for those times Continue…
With the new version of Smart Notebook 11 and Smart Response 2012 comes the ability to link the questions directly to the new Common Core as well as all the individual state cores. The advantage of doing this is that it allows you to run reports to see how students are performing by standard. This way you can give an assessment that covers several topics and know how they are doing on each one. The Continue…
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 Continue…
Sound and music are known to be powerful tools for focusing attention and enhancing memory and learning. One of the reasons technology is so invaluable for educators is its ability to integrate media into lesson plans, but doing this often requires knowing how to prepare certain types of media for your software to use. That’s why I’ve created this tutorial. Whatever music or audio you wish to use, this short video will help you convert Continue…
Nick wrote a great post last week about noise in the classroom. I am going to follow that up this week with some practical applications for audio reinforcement in the classroom. As a teacher I had an audio system in my classroom, and in Utah many of the classrooms have audio systems. One of the downsides of the audio systems is that most teachers either didn’t use the audio system because they thought their voice Continue…
Although SMART’s newly redesigned website may have simplified and improved organization, some users may still have difficulty obtaining product activation keys for software they have purchased. I would like to take this opportunity to walk you through the process, so you can focus yourself on more productive tasks. So you just bought your interactive SMART product and installed the software, and the first thing you see when it runs is a screen that asks you Continue…
You may be used to having a mouse and keyboard for everything, but do you need them? Sometimes we are so used to completing tasks the same way day after day, we fail to realize there may be a better way to do the same thing. For instance, just the other day I was installing a SMART Board with a push button controller. The software I use to configure these controllers looks like this: During Continue…
After installing SMART boards for over two years, I have found that the projector alignment can be very challenging, especially the iX Short Throw UX60 version. Continue…
Apple uses a port known as “Mini Displayport” to connect extra screens on machines made after the fall of 2008. And this summer Apple updated that port and renamed it Thunderbolt, although the connectors and cables stayed the same. Before that, it was an entirely different Apple specific connector. How confusing! This is entirely different from the standard VGA connection The Chariot Group uses when we install SMART Boards. What this means is we need an adapter in Continue…
Here at The Chariot Group, we believe in more than connecting your equipment. We believe in making it run as well as it can. That’s why any projector we install gets a tune-up before we ever leave the room. Unfortunately, as often as room layouts change and people decide to play with setup menus, we know things don’t always stay that way. That’s why today I’ve decided to provide some basic tools for performing a Continue…
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