Northeast Region

I have had the pleasure of utilizing it on both platforms thanks to a MAC running both Leopard and XP Professional. I have found that both respective OS software versions of version 10 seem stable and also offer consistent features.

The best addition's that I have seen in this particular version are the improved tools that are available to utilize with your board. Of particular benefit to classroom teacher's is the new ability to activate a document camera with the board. If your school site also has a Senteo system you'll be able to easily insert content onto your board and have your questions established for your lesson, and then utilize Senteo to ask your questions, while tabulating real time classroom responses. I can easily see this particular feature taking off and smartboard increasing its sales of the Senteo handhelds.

Other notable additions include the ability to insert Flash Video files into your notebook as well as the ability to create groupings of lessons within your notebook. With the added dual display feature, comparing two groups of notebook lessons can easily be showcased side by side. This feature enables a classroom teacher to revisit or re-teach lessons—thus increasing student understanding.

In order to maximize your download experience of version 10 make sure you have a smartboard serial number and register at www.smarttech.com . You will receive an email with the download link as well as a key that you need to type into your activation screen upon opening the software for the first time. For those of you who have a previous version installed of notebook, you will have to uninstall your previous version>restart>load version 10>restart>load new drivers for your notebook that work with version 10 more flawlessly. If you have minor bugs after installing version 10 it's probably because you didn't uninstall the old version or forgot to install the new drivers for your board.