Tequipment: Blogging About SMART Boards, Resources, Lessons, Training, Games

Following our teaser post back in October, we are happy to report that we finally received a SMART Table and, thanks to our friends at PS216 in Brooklyn, we had a chance to see it in action!

In a nutshell, the SMART Table is a multi-touch, multi-user collaborative learning center that we see as a phenomenal addition to any SMART Board-equipped K – 3 classroom. You can see the table in this YouTube video.

We will be providing more in-depth reports in the coming weeks, but to get started here are three of our favorite things about the SMART Table:

1) Student’s Love it! – The biggest thing that we’ve seen so far with the SMART Table is the immediate student engagement. Students can’t wait to start using the SMART Table, it really does make learning fun (cheesy I know)! The intuitive multi-touch interface requires minimal instruction for the students — they can simply focus on learning the content.

2) Easy to create new content – The SMART Table comes with 6 themes that you can use straight of the box. These themes include Shapes, Colors and the Human Body. In addition, the Table comes with a Table Toolkit which the teacher can use to modify existing content and create their own custom content. We are impressed with the simple to use toolkit which makes creating the content and transferring it to the table incredibly easy.

Creating content is easy with the SMART Table Toolkit.

3) Its so simple, even a baby can use it! – We brought the SMART Table to the Teaching and Learning Celebration this weekend where it had a great response. However, the biggest fan was 19-month old Emma, who had a great time with the Paint application, creating her own masterpiece!

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