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SMART Table in my Classroom – Two Introductory Videos
We took delivery of our second SMART Table unit on Friday (the first was faulty) and had the afternoon to use it.
I wanted to share with you a few bits of video that I took of the children using the Table as well as a short introductory clip about the physical structure of the Table and its’ components.
Media App for SMART Table from Tom Barrett on Vimeo.
The children worked very naturally with this application and it was fun listening to them chat away about how they liked it. The level of interaction here is high as there are only 3-4 children working at a time, any more and in my opinion the quality and frequency of interaction with the images would reduce (in parallel to a reduction in the amount of surface available to individual users).
Quick Tour of the SMART Table from Tom Barrett on Vimeo.
What do you think? I would appreciate your thoughts on the two short clips. There will be plenty of opportunity to post more videos throughout the course of the project and I hope to make a short film introducing the applications and software too.
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Hey Tom,
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