SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard For Dummies

Chapter 13

Collaborating with Your SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard

In This Chapter

Downloading and using Bridgit conferencing software

Getting ready for a Bridgit meeting

Creating a meeting in Bridgit

You’ve secretly been admiring your colleagues who talk about their video meetings with people halfway around the world. They talk about how fabulous the connection was, how they saved money not having to travel, how much they accomplished, and on and on. You secretly wish you had access to the state-of-the-art technology to collaborate, in real time, on projects. Well, now is your chance! You don’t need fancy software, and you don’t have to pay a third-party provider. Bridgit collaboration software, from SMART Technologies, interacts with your interactive whiteboard.

The brilliance of Bridgit software is its ability to let you work with your far-flung colleagues and students as though they were in the room with you, looking over your shoulder at your computer. More than that, Bridgit lets them actually interact with the files on your screen, adding notes, taking over control of your computer, collaborating, and communicating as though the thousands of miles that separate you were ...