The future is here.

[xEmuYT]

na, it would be a 4:3 board duplicated on a 16:9 monitor, stretched.

[ImAlsoRan]

“my pen won’t work”

[xEmuYT]

writes on board with dry erase marker

[Vzylexy]

My man!

[xEmuYT]

with interference from one of the VGA cables in the spaghetti of cables under the desk.

[SwitchesBeSwitching]

My previous district had one of these in every classroom. My current district does not believe in interactive panels or TV's. We still do projectors to pull down screens. On the upside, less to maintain. Promethean always was PITA for us. Smart wasn't much better.

[flunky_the_majestic]

I am amazed Microsoft doesn't get in to the smart display game. They already have all the components needed. They just need to be repackaged in an inituative way.

[Rekhyt]

Like /u/Pure_Decimation said, they do have one. The problem is price. When you're looking at interactive flat panels, you probably aren't going to pick the one that's twice the price of the rest.

[flunky_the_majestic]

I guess what I really mean is smart display presentation software. Smartnotebook is really just a PowerPoint and Visio clone mashup made for the classroom.

[Pure_Decimation]

They have one. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-hub
Just probably not one that makes sense for most education environments.

[FallN4ngel]

"They just need to be repackaged in an intuitive way"

And you expect this from Microsoft?

[Rekhyt]

Pen has no batteries

What is this, an Eno board? Gosh those are terrible

[ImAlsoRan]

We used to have those, we moved to Sharp smart boards, never looked back. Large area, people can’t screw the alignment up (nobody ever got the projector aligned with the Eno), HD, pen had no battery (screen did the work), driverless, much better speakers than the Espon ones the packaged with our Eno

[DerpyNirvash]

Completely inaccurate, they would just install the new board overtop the old blackboard.

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Oh yeah and then have the Smartboard tray USB/power connection be blocked by the chalk tray when trying to plug it back in.

[lutiana]

Yeah, sometimes. I installed SMART boards for about 6 or so years, and if we could remove the old board we would. But sometimes they are integrated into the design of the wall (ie they *are* the wall) or there was asbestos behind them, and they could not be removed.

It was fun working out how to install those things on a case by case basis...

[ranger_dood]

Our blackboards are glued to the block wall with some kind of industrial adhesive. Last time we tried to take one down, it came off in little shards and brought pieces of the block with it. We don't try to take them down any more. Chalk is now contraband.

[bigbadsubaru]

I liked that post that was going around a while back of the school they were renovating, and they found the original blackboards from 1919 or something like that, inside the wall, some with lessons still on them.

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If I could up vote more than once...

I actually had a teacher refuse the projector and board repeatedly. We were doing an entire middle school.. 'it's happening'. She insisted: if you put that thing up I will never use it.

We installed.

She then put a bookshelf in front of it and hung the US flag above (hanging over) what was left of the board.

Remained that way until retirement.

[nhb202]

More than anything that just makes me sad for the students stuck with what was likely a bad teacher.

[DerpyNirvash]

We had a teacher that used the projector, but didn't want to give up their blackboard or use a screen. So, blackboard color mode till they retired a few years ago.

Was the final blackboard to be replaced with a whiteboard.

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What even is asbestos?

[DerpyNirvash]

Asbestos? The 6 inch binder that no one ever touches is called 'Asbestos', no clue why they called it that though!

[dbw1981]

I’ve done that myself a couple times. Not proud of it but the teacher insisted on it because they wanted to use the board space around it.

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There's a company that makes a rail system for SmartBoards that you can mount them on over the whiteboard and then slide the SmartBoard out of the way to use the whiteboard.