Comments on: PolyVision ēno whiteboards: A great alternative to the SMART Board

By: SnowSpider

SnowSpider — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:00:33 +0000

ENO boards are made from ceramicsteal, so they are tougher than a lot of the boards I’ve seen. Even after 12 months of writing on ours with dry marker pens (and the occassional accident with a permanent pen) the boards are still a clean white. This is much more than I can say for our standard, run-of-the-mill whiteboards which seem to hold onto faint marks over time and never seem quite as clean as they should be.

I’ve only ever used the touch sensitive SMART boards; you certainly can’t write on these and you have to be careful with the surface of most interactive whiteboards. I’ve sat and watched women with diamond rings scraping along the surface of our ENO boards without leaving a mark, so tough isn’t an issue.

The software that comes with these boards is pretty basic; personally, I prefer this. I want to write on the board, run presentations and get on with the lesson; I’ve heard people complaining about “lack of functionality”, and agree that you need additional software to cut and paste pictures across the board, etc. However, I’ve also watched people waste hours of lesson time trying to remember where these fancy features are, when they aren’t really needed.

My only advise is to keep a spare battery, and setup in advance of the lesson. Pairing the stylus to the PC/laptop can be tempremental at times…but this is ALWAYS down to the PC/laptop settings. Anyway, no one should ever start a lesson without preparing first; lack of preparation just invites disasters.

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Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:29:14 +0000

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By: Dave Kootman

Dave Kootman — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:45:11 +0000

Just to clarify on IWBuser’s post, Inspire can be used on any IWB brand. One of the versions is even free, which Walsh mentions in another post. You can write on many brands of IWB with dry erase markers, but it is not always recommended, as some brands, such as Promethean have an anti-glare coating. If you keep rubbing it over time, the coating can come off. The coating is meant to decrease the “hotspots” that appear from the LCD protector light. You may want to look into and see if you find certain products to have high glare or hotspots.
Disclosure: I work for Promethean.

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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:21:05 +0000

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By: IWB User

IWB User — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:10:15 +0000

@KWalsh – I have seen the Sharpie thing done on SMART Boards, on Egan Teamboards (another touch one like SMART), etc.

my URL isn’t active yet… sorry, posted it too soon. I’ll share when I have it up and running – your posts are good content for the site in development.

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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:44:12 +0000

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By: K. Walsh

K. Walsh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:28:26 +0000

Thanks for your informed feedback “iwbuser”! I was not really clear on the ability of other whiteboards to use other app’s applications. I should, however, clarify that the rep who presented to us made it quite clear that other apps would need to be licensed – they were not encouraging pirating by any means. As for the Sharpie thing, yes, I realize this can be done on some other whiteboards, but again, not on the touch-sensitive technology boards that are out there. I agree that displacing these pens can be costly.

As for getting excited about this technology – I won’t deny it. I think a lot of schools have spent more than they need to for technology that is not as flexible as the approach PolyVision and some others use, which have writable surfaces, have no electronics built into the board, and so on. I am still adamant about the importance of understanding the differences between these offerings.

By the way, what is “http://iwbuser.com”? The URL shows as invalid (even if the ‘www’ is added).