The smartboards produced by Smart Technologies, a company based in Canada have been available since 1991 and have been employed in many international schools. The decision to replace the boards was made when the school realized the smartboard’s exceptional potential.

The smartboard’s display is connected to a computer and projector while the software can be directly controlled by interacting physically with the display which is similar to resistive touchscreens. Users are able to note down notes on the smartboard using digital ink which they can save as a normal file to view or share later. Smartboards can also be used view shapes and other three dimentional objects and interact with them using their fingers, similar to something you could do with a tablet.

New iterations of the smartboard like the ones employed in PakTurk schools can be connected to Wi-Fi to communicate with other computers and smartboards. Teachers and students can also use the smartboards to transfer lectures, pictures, notes and other media at high speeds.

The smartboards although being a great tool for modern education are not without their weaknesses. We noticed that since the smartboard requires a projector to display data on its screen students will have to jot down notes on their paper registers in the dark. There’s also the loadshedding factor, the schools will need to have a constant electrical supply to power the board, the projector and computer. And last but not least the smartboards are expensive and not every school is able to afford them.

We commend PakTurk for introducing such modern teaching instruments and hope that other schools will soon follow suit.

Post by: Danial Arshad

FiveRivers, the Lahore based multi-award winning company said in a video statement that they will begin porting a relevant subset of its over 150 applications to the new platform as soon as the tablet hits the market in November 2011.

Pepper.pk’s portfolio of applications includes three world No. 1 titles including the four-time AppWorld No. 1 app, Photo Editor. The company’s apps are available across several major mobile platforms including iPhone/iPad, BlackBerry phones and BlackBerry PlayBook, Windows Phone 7, Android and Nokia.

Congratulating “our friends in India” on the launch of the tablet, co-founder of Pepper.pk, Mahe Zehra Husain, said: “We are announcing our effort to add value to Aakash and enrich it with our leading software products. Information Technology is critical to both our countries as it can be a powerful force to reduce poverty and eliminate illiteracy.”

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