Interesting....thank you, Chris. It sounds like the initial thing to do is to figure out how my laptop will hook up to the smart board. I'm trying to find out online if there are OS issues that are relevant. Julie Campbell Julie's Music & Language Studio 1215 W. Worley Columbia, MO 65203 573-881-6889 http//www.facebook.com/JuliesMusicLanguageStudio?ref=hl On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 4:16 PM, <cblitid@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This evening the topic of Smartboards came up serendipitously in a > telephone conversation with a former colleague (in England) who has worked > with Smartboards (and has a friend [in Canada] who worked for a company > which develops them). > > He said that one can view - and use - a Smartboard as a large external > monitor; i.e., one hooks up one's laptop (he did not explain how that was > done) and whatever one calls up on one's laptop screen will appear on the > 'board. > > His one piece of advice that seemed worthy of forwarding is: until one has > some training or experience with the 'touch screen' features of Smartboards > it is better simply to ignore those features (i.e., not attempt to use > them) and to treat the Smartboard as a large external monitor. > > This is all hearsay - but I hope that it helps. > > Chris Bruce, > global villager, in > Kel, Germany > -- > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit > www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.**html<http://www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html> >