SMART Board 685 provides teachers with more work space as it supports wide-screen computers and projectors
SMART Technologies has announced the launch of its new SMART Board™ 685, a wide-format interactive whiteboard with a 16:10 aspect ratio that measures 87 inches, or 221 cm, on the diagonal. The extra wide format offers 20 per cent more working space than a SMART Board 680 interactive whiteboard and provides a solution for teachers who choose to adopt 16:10 wide-screen projectors.
The SMART Board 685 interactive whiteboard adds to SMART's existing wide-format interactive whiteboard offering, the SMART Board 690 interactive whiteboard with a 16:9 aspect ratio, making SMART the only company to offer two wide-format interactive whiteboards. The new product caters to the growing number of teachers using native 16:10 laptops and projectors. The 685 also offers an expansion slot on the pen tray, enabling teachers to easily upgrade their hardware by adding other SMART products. Like all SMART Board interactive whiteboards, the 685 comes with feature-rich Notebook™ collaborative learning software, the core application for the creation and delivery of lesson activities.
"The Middle East, cognizant of the importance of education to the region's sustained economic growth, has embarked on various initiatives to enhance learning, from policy reforms to technological investments. This has motivated teachers to explore strategies to improve the quality of education in the region, particularly through innovative methods and technologies such as the use of computers and projectors. The SMART Board 685 is perfectly positioned to help technology-enabled educators in the region to further enrich the educational experience, providing an interactive tool that blends the best of technology with stimulating student interaction," said Maher Husseini, Director, Intmark Distribution, SMART's authorised Middle East distributor.
"SMART places tremendous value on input from our customers, and then we work hard to incorporate their input into our products. The SMART Board 685 interactive whiteboard succeeds in meeting teachers' needs for a 16:10 aspect ratio that gives them more work space," concluded Nancy Knowlton, SMART Technologies CEO.
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About SMART
SMART Technologies is an industry pioneer and global education market segment leader in user-friendly ICT products and group collaboration tools. The award-winning line of SMART Board interactive whiteboards is the most widely installed in the world because of its unsurpassed product quality, versatility and ease of use. The SMART Board interactive whiteboard is used to teach over 18 million students in more than 600,000 classrooms in more than 100 countries around the world.
SMART is a private company founded in 1987. Employing more than 1,000 people, SMART is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with assembly facilities in Kanata, Ontario and offices in Bonn, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, New York City, Chicago and Washington, DC. SMART has been issued and maintains a broad portfolio of patents with numerous U.S., Canadian and other patents pending. In 1992 SMART formed a strategic alliance with Intel® Corporation that resulted in Intel's equity ownership in the company. SMART products are sold through dealers across North America and distributors worldwide. To learn more about SMART visit www.smarttech.com.
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