The first SMART Board that our school received was from a grant that I had won through Washington County Board. When I applied for the grant, my principal and I knew we wanted an "interactive board". We weren't really sure why or what it did, but we knew we needed to start using them because "everyone else had them! That's how naive we were at the time.
So a few months later after the board had been installed, the company sent out a trainer for a basic training session with the faculty. My principal and I wanted to "sell" the teachers on the idea of implementing SMART Technology into our daily lessons. It was sort of the big unveil of the new SMART Board, being able to show the faculty all the bells and whistles that this baby could do. Well...that didn't happen. The trainer knew a lot about technical features that were too advanced for the teachers to understand, nor did they really care. He didn't show them how the interactive board would help them with their daily lessons, making their lessons interactive, engaging, and more interesting with the many features. He was too much of a salesman, and not an educator. He lost his audience early on and was never able to draw them back in throughout the presentation. Ultimately, this made it hard on me later to convince the teachers how great these interactive boards were.
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