Smart Boards

Product description
A Smart Board is an interactive whiteboard, designed for engaging students and
delivering unique presentations. As an instructor, you no longer have to stand behind
the teacher machine to present. Simply walk up to the board and touch the screen. Your
finger, or the pens provided, will act as your computer mouse, allowing you to visit
websites, scroll through PowerPoint slides, and much more. The Smart Board is
automatically connected to the teacher machine, so any interaction you make will occur
on the computer synchronously. Using the Smart Board can lead to more interactive
lectures and presentations. Have your students come up during a lesson and solve a
problem. Or write down class notes and export them to Moodle for later viewing. These
are just a small handful of possibilities when using this technology.
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Tasks and Sub-tasks
Tasks Sub-tasks/standards
Effectiv
eness
Effici
ency
Satisf
action
Criteria
1. Write in
smart board
by using
smart board
pen.

1.1. From start menu
1.2. ,select all programs .will
appear new window, select
open Microsoft word.
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1.3. Start to write text that you
want.


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1.4. If the language for wite is
English change it to Arabic.



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1.5. Check correct spelling by
using dictionary.

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1.6. Select the writing font from
home menu and select (Times
new Roman,(size 18),
(bold text) (alignment:
center).

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1.7. Change the color from black
to red color from color menu.

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1.8. Add new comment from
review menu.
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2. Drawing
in smart
board by
using smart
board pen.
2.1. add a new comment to
Graph.

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2.2. add a new comment to
important and difficult words.


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2.3. add a new comment on some
important locations.

2.4. Identify the biggest towns in
Oman.


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2.5. Identify Arab countries
located in a map.

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2.6. Identify comparative and
non-comparative components in
picture.

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2.7. Comparison between the
ratios in spreadsheets.
2.8. Select menus in Word
program.

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3.1 From the main menu in the
menu bar, select Insert menu .



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3.Transfor
m pictures
from file to
another file

3.2 From the Insert menu you
will find lots of pictures and
shapes Choose (Photos)

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3.3 From the Insert menu you
will find lots of pictures and
shapes Choose (Photos).

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3.4 Image will appear in the
workplace, but cannot be
controlled.

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3.5 You can control the images
through choice (text wrapping).

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Scenarios Testing

1- Open one of the existing maps of the world in front of you and
select the most important tourist countries in Europe and put a
circle around each city owns more than 10 hotels for visitors
and tourists.


2- Through the text in front of you select the words that contain the
following terms: (Software Application),(Hardware Tools) and
then classifies them in the box at the bottom each term should
not be more than five categories.



3- Design your own folded written subject of castles in the
Sultanate of Oman, so choose one of the famous castles in the
Sultanate, and add this image to the written text and add some
effects have a condition that dates back to the pre-1840.

3.6 Use the option choice (text
wrapping) to move in the
direction of the image that you
want.

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3.7 Choose from the list (format),
(picture styles)to change the
pattern of the image.

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3.8 Turn the image of a file to
another file by dragging.

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Instrument Testing
1- Questionnaire
2- Interview
statements
Strongly
Agree
Agree
Disagree
1- I would find using Smart board useful in helping
me to avoid errors often occur when performance
standards are combined for assessment.


2- Smart board provides efficient function to
communicate standards-based assessment
results with my students.


3- Using Smart board would improve my
standards-based grading performance.


4- Comment on students scores and activities.

5- Support different grading scales (under
graduate, post graduate and custom).


6- Generate individual standards-based grade
reports.


7- Integrate content standards to the activities to
provide rich information about student learning
and course assessment.


8- Correct and detecting entry errors in the
spreadsheet.


9- Correct and deducting entry errors in the
spreadsheet.


10- Assess student activities based on content
standards.







Questionnaire Results
Smart board useful in helping me to avoid errors often occurs when
performance standards are combined for assessment.




















provides efficient function to communicate standards-based
assessment results with my students










Using Smart board would improve my standard-based grading
performance.











Comment on students scores and activities.



support different grading scales (under graduate, post graduate and
custom)









Generate individual standards-based grade report.






Qualitative Comments




Integrate content standards to the activities to provide rich information
about student learning and course assessment.




Working and is not working







Use the users guide and instructions of use.









Correct and deducting entry errors in the spreadsheet.



Assess student activities based on content standards.





Result and Finding
In terms of efficiency the analysis of data shows that about 75% of
participant strongly agrees that Smart Board provide user with clear
guide, In addition 70% agree that Smart Board provide user with
different template to start and 10% disagree of that. However 60% of
participant strongly agrees that Smart Board enable user to invite
other to edit. In addition 80% of them strongly agree that Smart
Board meets the standards-based assessment needs on otherwise,
about 10% of them disagree, and 60% agree Smart Board supports the
auto-saved function. In term of Efficiency the analysis of data shows
that about 80% of participant strongly agrees that most of them learn
to use Smart Board for the first time, in addition 60% agree that they
have ability to save the presentation easily, and 90% strongly agree
that Smart Board has ability to exit page at any time. However 80%
disagree that they use the users guide and instructions of use.
Finally, 90% agree that user can add different shapes, frames and
fonts easily. In term of Satisfaction the analysis of data shows that
about 80% of participant strongly agrees that they felt free to using
Smart Board, and 70% agree that they felt at ease using the Smart
Board tool. In addition 90% strongly agree that they would
recommend Smart Board to their colleagues. Finally 80% of them
strongly agree that Smart Board is an important tool for instructors,
and is pleasant to use. Finally most of them say that Smart Board is
different from other presentation creator tool because of personality
and easy to use and zooming.

Improvement Recommendations
After analyze data we find that student satisfied when they use smart
board to help them in their study. This analysis show that smart
board is effective and efficiency to using as an educational tool.
We recommended students to use smart board as an alternative of
traditional board However, smart board does offer many
personalization options in terms of colors, fonts and background and
smart pen. It zooms easily and allows users to see an entire overview
of a presentation which many are helpful. And allow user to interact
with it more easily.


Studys Summary
This study was conducted to evaluate the usability of one of the smart
board as an alternative of traditional board However, smart board
does offer many personalization options in terms of colors, fonts and
background and smart pen. It zooms easily and allows users to see an
entire overview of a presentation which many are helpful. And allow
user to interact with it more easily. The date collected by using
Questionnaire tool , The Questionnaire is about smart board and its
effectiveness , first we defied Questionnaire into three units
effectiveness, efficiency and stratification, It is a scale instrument
which are, strongly agree, agree, disagree. This Questionnaire
created using monkey survey. We found that the smart board is
effective and efficiency for using as an educational tool.