Touring Your Interactive Whiteboard System
The interactive whiteboard system is made up four different components:
The hardware: The hardware consists of the following:
• The interactive whiteboard
• A projector (see the nearby sidebar)
• Your computer
• A keyboard
• A USB cable
• A VGA/RGB cable
I discuss how to identify your hardware components in the next section and how to connect them in Chapter 2.
Interactive devices: The interactive devices are the following:
• An on-screen keyboard
• Loads of on-screen tools
• The SMART Pen Tray, which includes two or four color-coded slots for pens (depending on which model you have) and one slot for the eraser
The pens and eraser work by interacting with the place setting. Each pen sitting in a slot has an optical sensor to identify it. When you pick up a pen, the sensor sends info to the interactive whiteboard, enabling you to write with the pen by applying pressure with the pen or your finger. (I discuss the functionality of these tools in more detail in Chapters 3 and 4.)
If you misplace one of the pens, you can add any object ...
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