Why is it never straightforward?
I have been trying to set up a Smartboard in our P1 classroom. The board was originally in P7 and when trying to get it up and running with a brand new Macbook laptop didn’t have the correct connector for the projector. After buying the wrong one, we now have the correct one , only to discover no cable to connect to. Found a spare cable amongst the Promethean board stuff and hey presto!! Ah, but the connector point on the Smartboard was twisted and I had to dismantle the plastic cover and try and ‘bend’ it back into place. It is now connected, projected, in focus and …………….doesn’t work interactively. I believe it is now a software problem…….and I will need to upgrade the Smartboard software to work on the new Mac.
All this has happened over the course of a couple of months as it is only one of a number of jobs needing done, in between teaching and installing software, fixing printing problems and setting up Promethean boards.
Anyway, off to the Smartboard website to look for updates …………….maybe I shall get it working this week.
