SMART Board Facts
SMART Board is a brand name for an interactive whiteboard. SMART Boards can be found in education, government and businesses worldwide. SMART Boards provide a way to energize presentations and motivate and maintain the attention of the audience. SMART Boards work with a program or application on the host computer, making the SMART Board a versatile and important presentation tool. The SMART Board has made appearances on TV as a part of the news broadcasts of major broadcasting companies such as CNN and Fox Network, as well as on the program "CSI."
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History of SMART Boards
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SMART Technologies, the company that developed and produces the SMART Boards, was founded in 1987. SMART is a privately owned company that is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The first SMART Board was introduced in 1991. The early years provided a challenge to the company to market their product. Not very many people knew about the SMART Board or why they would want one. Eventually educators, businesses and government staff came to value the new and creative way in which they could do their jobs using the SMART Board technology. It was during this time that the new product category was officially created.
Number of SMART Boards in the World
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SMART Technologies states on their website that there are more than 1.5 million SMART Boards installed worldwide in the areas of government, education and business. To help support the globalization of SMART Boards, support offices are located worldwide in cities such as Bonn, New York City, Tokyo, Shanghai and Washington, D.C. The company also offers online technical support in many languages. In 2009, SMART Boards hit a global sales record of 360,000, an increase of over 60,000 from the previous record in 2008. To reach these sales, the SMART company has an extensive network of resellers and distributors in every county where SMART Boards and SMART Technology is sold.
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SMART Boards in Education
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SMART Boards in classrooms help increase student engagement, motivation and retention of knowledge. Using an interactive SMART Board, the classroom teacher can reach students with different learning styles, including students with special needs. With over 30 million students in more than one million classrooms, SMART Boards and SMART products can be found in schools in every state in the United States and every province in Canada. The SMART company offers professional development for school staff. Lesson plans and ideas are abundant on the Internet for teachers of all subjects and grade levels. The website smartboardlounge includes tutorials, games and lesson plans.
SMART Boards in Businesses
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Utilizing a SMART Board in a business can help make meetings interactive and increase productivity. SMART Boards can also help make work areas more engaging, when teams can easily access and interact with information. Information that is added or modified can be saved and accessed anywhere there is a computer with access to the network.
SMART Boards in Government
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Military and government organizations use the SMART Boards for training, briefing, debriefing and improved collaboration. Utilizing a SMART Board will improve the effectiveness of working sessions and the usefulness of training, whether participants are in the same room or miles apart.
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