SMARTBoard Slides
The SMARTBoard Notebook and resulting SMARTBoard slides can be a fun and interesting tool to use in the classroom. Just playing around with the software, I was able to create the above slides. As you can see, the use of the SMARTBoard Notebook software is highly versatile. It comes with many tools as you would find on PowerPoint but also comes with a huge gallery of existing content to play with, for example the heart and frog dissection slides above. I would be up to the teacher to take the time to use the SMARTBoard Notebook software to its full extent, but when used in the correct way, i feel it could add some interactive life to the classroom.
The SMART Exchange
Also, using services like the SMART Exchange, you can look at and download presentations others have created on a multitude of different topics, I chose to download and fiddle with an existing presentation on the topic of Diffusion and Osmosis. The interactive part of the presentation was very well done, but I felt the review questions at the end were poorly worded, so I rewrote them. Services like the SMART Exchange are perfect for gathering ideas and inspiration from others in the community.