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SmartBoards make excellent tools in classrooms

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Isabelle Palumbo, a kindergartener, uses an interactive whiteboard.<br>Photo by Jessica DiNapoli

Isabelle Palumbo, a kindergartener, uses an interactive whiteboard.
Photo by Jessica DiNapoli

Sue Nydegger's Hampton Bays garden, which overlooks the Shinnecock Bay.

Sue Nydegger's Hampton Bays garden, which overlooks the Shinnecock Bay.

Chris Hudson, a kindergarten teacher at Remsenburg/Speonk Elementary School, calls one of his students up to the white board. <br>Photo by Will James

Chris Hudson, a kindergarten teacher at Remsenburg/Speonk Elementary School, calls one of his students up to the white board.
Photo by Will James

Chris Hudson, a kindergarten teacher at Remsenburg/Speonk Elementary School, calls one of his students up to the white board. <br>Photo by Will James

Chris Hudson, a kindergarten teacher at Remsenburg/Speonk Elementary School, calls one of his students up to the white board.
Photo by Will James

Pat Gilchrest, of the East Hampton Rotary Club, announces to the John Marshall Elementary Cchool students that all third graders will receive dictionaries

Pat Gilchrest, of the East Hampton Rotary Club, announces to the John Marshall Elementary Cchool students that all third graders will receive dictionaries

Julieanne Purcell, the lead teacher of instructional technology for the Southampton School District.<br>Photo by Jessica DiNapoli

Julieanne Purcell, the lead teacher of instructional technology for the Southampton School District.
Photo by Jessica DiNapoli

Marissa Randone, a second-grade teacher in Southampton, uses an interactive whiteboard. <br>Photo by Jessica DiNapoli

Marissa Randone, a second-grade teacher in Southampton, uses an interactive whiteboard.
Photo by Jessica DiNapoli

D'Asia Pressley,

D'Asia Pressley,

author on Apr 29, 2010
A teacher’s desk contains many objects—lesson plans, hall passes, red pens and maybe an occasional apple. But one thing that’s already becoming hard to find in the classroom is chalk.... more

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