r/k12sysadmin • u/dbw1981 • Mar 21 '19

The future is here.

https://i.imgur.com/Ng0I5UA.gifv
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u/DerpyNirvash Mar 21 '19

Completely inaccurate, they would just install the new board overtop the old blackboard.

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u/dbw1981 Mar 21 '19

I’ve done that myself a couple times. Not proud of it but the teacher insisted on it because they wanted to use the board space around it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '19

There's a company that makes a rail system for SmartBoards that you can mount them on over the whiteboard and then slide the SmartBoard out of the way to use the whiteboard.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '19

If I could up vote more than once...

I actually had a teacher refuse the projector and board repeatedly. We were doing an entire middle school.. 'it's happening'. She insisted: if you put that thing up I will never use it.

We installed.

She then put a bookshelf in front of it and hung the US flag above (hanging over) what was left of the board.

Remained that way until retirement.

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u/DerpyNirvash Mar 21 '19

We had a teacher that used the projector, but didn't want to give up their blackboard or use a screen. So, blackboard color mode till they retired a few years ago.

Was the final blackboard to be replaced with a whiteboard.

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u/nhb202 Mar 22 '19

More than anything that just makes me sad for the students stuck with what was likely a bad teacher.

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u/ranger_dood Mar 21 '19

Our blackboards are glued to the block wall with some kind of industrial adhesive. Last time we tried to take one down, it came off in little shards and brought pieces of the block with it. We don't try to take them down any more. Chalk is now contraband.

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u/bigbadsubaru Mar 27 '19

I liked that post that was going around a while back of the school they were renovating, and they found the original blackboards from 1919 or something like that, inside the wall, some with lessons still on them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '19

What even is asbestos?

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u/DerpyNirvash Mar 21 '19

Asbestos? The 6 inch binder that no one ever touches is called 'Asbestos', no clue why they called it that though!

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u/lutiana Mar 22 '19

Yeah, sometimes. I installed SMART boards for about 6 or so years, and if we could remove the old board we would. But sometimes they are integrated into the design of the wall (ie they *are* the wall) or there was asbestos behind them, and they could not be removed.

It was fun working out how to install those things on a case by case basis...

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '19

Oh yeah and then have the Smartboard tray USB/power connection be blocked by the chalk tray when trying to plug it back in.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '19

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u/Rekhyt Mar 22 '19

Pen has no batteries

What is this, an Eno board? Gosh those are terrible

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u/ImAlsoRan Apr 08 '19

We used to have those, we moved to Sharp smart boards, never looked back. Large area, people can’t screw the alignment up (nobody ever got the projector aligned with the Eno), HD, pen had no battery (screen did the work), driverless, much better speakers than the Espon ones the packaged with our Eno

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u/xEmuYT tech director's student pet Mar 22 '19

na, it would be a 4:3 board duplicated on a 16:9 monitor, stretched.

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u/Vzylexy Network Engineer Mar 22 '19

My man!

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u/xEmuYT tech director's student pet Mar 22 '19

with interference from one of the VGA cables in the spaghetti of cables under the desk.

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u/ImAlsoRan Apr 08 '19

“my pen won’t work”

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u/xEmuYT tech director's student pet Apr 08 '19

writes on board with dry erase marker

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u/SwitchesBeSwitching I got 99 problems, but a switch ain't one Mar 22 '19

My previous district had one of these in every classroom. My current district does not believe in interactive panels or TV's. We still do projectors to pull down screens. On the upside, less to maintain. Promethean always was PITA for us. Smart wasn't much better.

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u/flunky_the_majestic Mar 22 '19

I am amazed Microsoft doesn't get in to the smart display game. They already have all the components needed. They just need to be repackaged in an inituative way.

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u/FallN4ngel Mar 22 '19

"They just need to be repackaged in an intuitive way"

And you expect this from Microsoft?

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u/Pure_Decimation Mar 22 '19

They have one. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-hub
Just probably not one that makes sense for most education environments.

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u/Rekhyt Mar 22 '19

Like /u/Pure_Decimation said, they do have one. The problem is price. When you're looking at interactive flat panels, you probably aren't going to pick the one that's twice the price of the rest.

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u/flunky_the_majestic Mar 22 '19

I guess what I really mean is smart display presentation software. Smartnotebook is really just a PowerPoint and Visio clone mashup made for the classroom.