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Monday, January 13, 2003
Teachers smitten with 'Smart Boards - Laura Zahn Pohl, Chicago Tribune
...The Smart Board is a large white screen that projects images from a computer and is used like a blackboard for drawing. Anything that's created on the screen can be saved by the computer. And the 64-inch screen is much easier for students to see than a small computer monitor. Because of the equipment's cost, few schools have Smart Boards or may have only one. But educators such as Le Duc believe kids learn better with more visuals and Web graphics. "It's made the class more fun, and you can understand things," said Ionut Nan, 15, a freshman biology student from Aurora.
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