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metcet20
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Hi everybody. Do you have smart boards in your classes? How many of the classrooms do you think have smart boards in your country? Are they useful?
Thank you in advance
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8 Feb 2012
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manonski (f)
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All the classrooms have one in my school. The government announced it would grant money to schools to buy them about a year ago.
I know that most schools in my area don �t have a smartboard in all classrooms. Each schools decide what they do for their ICTs budget so I �m not sure when everyone will have one but it is coming.
Mine is quite useful. I use it everyday!
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8 Feb 2012
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Greek Professor
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Hi...we have smart boards...They are usefu when you have the software ready...I use them everyday. But when you don �t have softare you will have to make it on your own...and of course it is time consuming...but its useful and interesting |
8 Feb 2012
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valodra
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Hello,
I teach in a "Lyc�e" ie High school ( students aged from 15 to 18 ), & no smartboards ...so far! We all wish we could have - at least one! - but ...no way. I really do not intend to speak about politics, but the French government doesn �t seem very keen on giving materials & money to schools these days...."They" pretend we �re a "big" & important country - I �m telling you all we are not.
When a country does not give its people a free right to Education & Health, it cannot be soooo important, can it ?
I always read your interesting posts about what can be done & used in class, - when I �m being told I �m going to have 45 students in my classes next year..........We are about 50 teachers at my school, & ............ can use 4 PCs!!!!!!!!! ( out of the classrooms, which have a PC each). When we all met last September, we were told that we - no longer ....- were allowed to be sick!......
BTW, my apologies to the Turkish people for the French government �s stupid laws!! I �ve been to Turkey several times, & I - as many here! - do not agree with the twits who are in charge. France has to look backwards, eg : Algeria ( ...) , before giving lessons to others!
Hugs from France - ie : the French people!
Val�rie |
8 Feb 2012
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janaesl
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hi , yes we do. we have smartboards in all our classes and it �s fun to teach through it. |
8 Feb 2012
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metcet20
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We are told that the government is going to install smart boards. Our school is one of the pilot schools. We are happy;Teachers can �t help thinking that we are wasting and it �s not worth paying so much. |
8 Feb 2012
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ueslteacher
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The smart board is used with an overhead projector, right? We have one classroom with a smart board and you have to book it ahead of time if you want to use it (no Internet connection though). I �ve been told that you can �t have the projector running two classes in a row as its lamp (which costs almost as much as a projector, i. e. a lot) gets overheated and can burn out. Hence, my question to those of you who use smart boards on a daily basis, how do you deal with this? BTW even if you don �t have interactive CD-Roms, you can use powerpoint games with smart boards and PPTs and there are lots of them here, ready-made FYI:) Sophia |
8 Feb 2012
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