SMART - SMART in the News, 2007

2007 Coverage

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	SMART products on Good Morning America A look at technology in the classroom and how it has transformed how teachers teach and students learn. SMART products featured include the SMART Board interactive whiteboard and the Senteo interactive response system. (As broadcast on ABC: Good Morning America, September 19, 2007) Windows Media

	SMART products on the Oprah Winfrey Show Oprah interviewed tennis superstar, Andre Agassi, regarding his philanthropic initiative of creating a school for underprivileged children in his hometown of Las Vegas. The school is equipped with SMART Board interactive whiteboards and during the television coverage, Andre Agassi addresses a kindergarten class and asks, “Could someone here show us how to use the SMART Board?” (As broadcast on The Oprah Winfrey Show, September 4, 2007) Windows Media

	Fox Tampa Bay: Polk using new technology in classrooms Polk County is opening four new schools this year. All of them will be full of cutting edge technology to make learning more fun. Many classes at the new schools will have so-called "smart boards," the 21st century cousin of the old blackboard. With just a touch, you can make new images, drag them and a lot more. Watch news clip/read article

	The Island Packet: “Magic” chalkboard engages students and teachers alike As schools across the country try to find ways to reach tech-savvy children in the video-game and Internet-saturated Information Age, these new interactive "Smart Boards" have emerged as a tool for teachers to engage students. Watch news clip/read article

	KHAS-TV News 5: High tech lessons come to the classroom First there was the chalkboard and then the dry erase board. Now the next generation of classroom tools is here providing new insights to students with just the touch of a finger. It is a SMARTer way of both teaching and learning. Read article

Canada


	Innovation Alberta: Interview with Nancy Knowlton Nancy Knowlton, SMART’s CEO, discusses a wide variety of topics, including the growth of the company and its initiatives in interactive technology research. Listen to interview

	CFCN News: Interactive classroom CFCN News explains how students at Bowcroft Elementary School are using the Senteo interactive response system with a SMART Board interactive whiteboard. Calgary Board of Education officials discuss the impact this system is having on student learning. Watch news clip

	QR 77 Radio Calgary: University funding QR 77 announces that SMART Technologies is contributing funds to the University of Calgary for research into interactive technology. Listen here

	CFRK FM: Research on classroom technology This report comments on a pilot research project that is investigating the effectiveness of SMART Board interactive whiteboards in the classroom. Listen here

North America

United States

Bits, bytes combine to make magic music
The Record

Students at Glen Rock High School are making short films, creating their own sheet music and toting customized, karaoke-style recordings. It’s all part of a high-tech digital arts program that includes computer-aided choir and music theory classes and a digital multi-media lab.
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Technology delivers wow factor
Geelong Advertiser

In the space of one generation the way education is delivered has been transformed by technology. While some parents may still be coming to grips with the computer age, their kids are taking it in their stride.
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Canada

SMART creates research chair
The Calgary Herald

Calgary’s SMART Technologies announced the creation of a research chair at the University of Calgary Thursday and then unveiled the plans for its new $60-million headquarters being built next door.
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SMART boards, smart students?
The Daily Gleaner

Park Street Elementary School is being transformed into a training facility for new teachers and will be part of a year-long research project. More than $142,000 has been invested into the school for the project. Every classroom in the school will receive an interactive whiteboard, called a SMART board, to replace existing chalkboards.
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One clever space
Elemente Magazine

As David Martin recalls it, seven years ago, when he and his wife Nancy Knowlton, co-founders of the supremely successful company SMART Technologies, decided time was nigh to construct their own world headquarters in Calgary instead of dizzily hopscotching their business across six different buildings in town, the idea of going green “wasn’t a prime mover” in their plan at first.
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International

A Corporate Diary: Moving with a SMART approach to technology
Digital Learning, India

A biography and interview highlighting President and CEO of SMART Technologies, Nancy Knowlton.
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South African Schools Collection: Technology
South African Schools Collection, South Africa

In an interview with Nancy Knowlton, president and co-CEO of a producer of interactive whiteboard technology, Cindy Moritz finds out how using technology in teaching and learning is changing the classroom dynamic in SA and around the world.
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New touch-screen whiteboard makes classroom learning easier
What’s Up, Singapore

At Tanglin Special School, both teachers and students enjoy using the SMART Board. The school is for students with special needs. Like most children everywhere, these students are capable of learning if taught in creative ways suited to their needs. Their teachers are experts at doing just that. And, equipment such as the SMART Board helps them to do so.
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North America

United States

Easton earthquake project takes trophy
Connecticut Post

All 120 Keller sixth-graders worked on special projects, but the winners’ work was impressive because they created an interactive, computer-based earthquake mapping and modeling system that uses a state-of-the-art “Smart” board to encourage classroom participation.
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Virtual firefighting
The Daily Citizen

Searcy Fire Department Instructor Doug Baker uses a smart board to train Searcy firefighters on how to react to different situations in structures around Searcy. The program, named Fire Simulation, allows Baker to take a picture of any structure in Searcy and then add flames, smoke, or steam to the picture along with audio to give firefighters an idea of how to fight a would-be fire.
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Technology allows students from across the globe to meet
Sewickley Herald

Thousands of miles separate Pittsburgh from Wuhan, China, but thanks to modern technology, Sewickley Academy students will not need a passport or airfare to visit the booming metropolis. Wednesday morning's conference was the second between the two schools held as part of the Academy's global education program and made possible by a SMART Board, an interactive whiteboard connected to a computer.
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Canada

It's smart to think big in small markets
Canada Export

Calgary-based SMART Technologies has become a market leader with its SMART Board interactive whiteboard which combines the simplicity of a whiteboard and the power of a computer. And they did it by giving small markets like Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the big investment they deserve.
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Six questions: One-on-one with Nancy Knowlton
Canadian Business Online

Arguably, this Calgary-based manufacturer of interactive white boards and other group collaboration tools was Web 2.0 before there was a Web 2.0. But the company didn't throw schmooze-fest parties and hold guru-laden conferences; instead, over 10 years it methodically grew sales that in January 2007 surpassed a cumulative $1 billion. How … Canadian. Knowlton has been at the forefront of this success and was recently honoured as Best Canadian Entrepreneur at the international 2006 Stevie Awards for Women in Business. The company itself took home an award for Most Innovative Company of the Year. Privately-held, SMART Technologies recently unveiled plans for a new, $60 million, 200,000 square-foot world headquarters in northwest Calgary.
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Virtual tech props opps in lower Canada
InterGov World

A videoconferencing system is proving to be a lifeline for many First Nations communities in Quebec, offering residents opportunities in education and training not previously accessible, thanks to the First Nations Education Council (FNEC).
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Manufacturing grows in face of surging buck
The Calgary Herald

Despite a Canadian dollar that rose to a new 30-year high Monday, Alberta manufacturers continue to crank out growth -- and in an unlikely way, as shipments of electronics from here surged nearly 23 per cent in May. Calgary's Smart Technologies Inc. is one of those electronic manufacturers that have been doing well, said chief executive Nancy Knowlton. The presentation and collaboration technology company sold a minority stake for "several hundred million" dollars Monday to a private equity firm.
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International

Island’s youngsters get smart with new classroom boards
The Royal Gazette, Bermuda

Computer-based technology has been used in schools in Bermuda for some years now. But a new technology replacing the white board is helping prepare Bermuda’s youngsters for an increasingly technological world while also making waves in the art and science of teaching.
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Report says interactive whiteboards can lead to more informed and effective police
Public Technology, United Kingdom

New academic research findings have revealed that the use of SMART Board interactive whiteboards in policing are providing clear benefits for routine briefings and operational planning, but that common failings in integration and purchasing are inhibiting wider-scale adoption of the technology within Police Forces in the UK.
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