Atomic Learning offers 45 short tutorials on features of the SMART Board interactive whiteboard
Two-minute lessons teach educators how to use SMART Board interactive whiteboards effectively
CALGARY, Alberta --- March 22, 2006 --- SMART Technologies Inc. announces that Atomic Learning is now offering 45 two-minute tutorials on various features of the SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard and its whiteboarding application, SMART Board software. Atomic Learning is an online library where teachers can access QuickTime movies on the effective use of a wide range of popular hardware and software applications. The SMART Board interactive whiteboard tutorials cover many basic functions – everything from using your finger as a control tool to navigating with the Page Sorter tool. Atomic Learning’s tutorials can be found at www.atomiclearning.com.
Atomic Learning is a trusted source of online training materials for a growing base of school districts across the United States. Atomic Learning’s customer base had been requesting training materials covering the SMART Board interactive whiteboard, the most popular interactive whiteboard in the world. SMART worked closely with Atomic Learning to accelerate the development of the tutorials, including sharing materials, resources and best practices. Atomic Learning provides online tutorials to 1,500 school districts across the United States and is recognized as a significant resource for teachers who want to learn about classroom technology. The Atomic Learning offering supplements SMART’s own selection of free two-minute tutorials on all of its products at http://www.smarttech.com.
“SMART created the interactive whiteboard market and has continued to drive this product category forward,” said Chuck Amos, CEO of Atomic Learning. “Atomic Learning is proud to provide tutorials on SMART Board software. The training is delivered via Atomic Learning’s award-winning, Web-based software training and support library.”
“SMART Board interactive whiteboards have become the technology product of choice for whole-class learning and collaboration,” says Nancy Knowlton, president and co-CEO of SMART Technologies Inc. “Atomic Learning’s new tutorials will help teachers who subscribe to its service become familiar with the many features of the product that can be used to create digital lessons that engage students and enhance learning.”
About Atomic Learning
Atomic Learning, Inc. was formed in 2000 by a group of technology educators with a mission to create useful and affordable online products focused on teaching people how to effectively use technology. Atomic Learning delivers a library of thousands of short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorial movies that can be used as an integral part of a professional development program, a valuable curriculum supplement and an anytime/anywhere software training resource. Atomic Learning now serves more than 1,500 school districts and universities in all 50 states and many foreign countries, as well as individuals and organizations in a variety of other industries. For more information, visit www.atomiclearning.com.
About SMART Board interactive whiteboards
The SMART Board interactive whiteboard is a large, touch-sensitive display. Connected to a computer and projector, the interactive whiteboard is like a giant computer screen that students and teachers simply touch to operate. Using their finger or a pen as a mouse, teachers and students can access and control any computer application, file or multimedia platform, including the Internet, CD-ROMs and DVDs. They can also write over applications in digital ink, then save their work for future study and review. The SMART Board interactive whiteboard engages students with diverse learning styles by providing both immediate access to a wide range of digital materials and a common focus for the entire class – not something easily achieved with other classroom technology products. It is the number one choice among primary and secondary school educators in more than 75 countries worldwide because it captures the imagination of students of all backgrounds and abilities in order to help them learn together, understand better and achieve more. For more information, visit www.smarttech.com/smartboard.
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SMART Technologies Inc.
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