Comments on: Promethean’s Interactive Whiteboard and related instructional products

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:50:56 +0000

We have had Promethean ActivBoards for two years now after going through a selection process that compared and contrasted the options. We’re very pleased. Answer to the dual pen question: Yes, in dual user mode both pens can be use anywhere on the board simultaneously. And I have heard that the soon to be released boards and software will accept up to four inputs! Get those students up to the board and interacting with the content!!

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By: Dave K

Dave K — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:41:49 +0000

Great review! I appreciate you breaking it down by bullet points.

In regards to the comment above, I’ve used both types of technology and found that I like having the pen because you can hover and you can right click. More and more websites and applications require hovering to use all features.

It is true that many LRS systems will work on other boards, but then you have to run 2 pieces of software and they cannot talk to one another. It is much easier to just get the same brand if you can do so from the beginning.

In regards to dual pen usage, a good question to ask is if both pens can be used anywhere on the board or just in certain areas. Also, does the system recognize each pen independently and react as such or just as “two pens?”

Those are all good questions to ask though IWB user.

By: IWB User

IWB User — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:07:22 +0000

Good post – it is interesting to see peoples impressions from demos/sales pitches. Could you follow up with further detail on why you think not having touch ‘is not necessarily a bad thing.’ In my opinion, it is very important – if not, lots of tech wouldn’t be moving towards touch, multi-touch, etc. Apple, Microsoft, HP, etc etc all moving towards touch as the primary way to interact with content. Pens for writing, touch for manipulating. With things like Windows 7 and other OS’s going to gestures/multi-point/multi-touch I wonder what that experience would be like – do you use multiple pens? What did the Promethean person say? What about Polyvision (the other one you reviewed)?

Re: LRS/SRS/(other names) – all the clickers work with any IWB. eInstruction works with any, Quizdom works with any, SMART’s work with any, etc – they are all software driven, so they all can work with any board, right?

Re: Two -pen mode – have you seen the eInstruction Dual-Board? That has used 2 pens for quite some time. SMART has a dual-user board coming out in the next few weeks too. Not sure if others do multi-user.

Re: Promethean Planet – lots of stuff there. Have you checked out the SMART Exchange? I also seem to find many more community-based sites out there for SMART – something that takes it beyond just the manufacturer created/supplied community to the grassroots level. There is also a new eInstruction community site that they are slowly building, as well as other sites from other companies as well..

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