Classroom technology helps motivate students

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By DAVE FOPAY - H&R Staff Writer

CHARLESTON - It looks something like a drawing board the size of a big-screen TV, and it can be used as both.

The difference is that third graders can put their fingers on the board to "drag" their names under their choice for what they want for lunch, much as they would with a mouse while using a computer. They also can change a program on the human body so it shows internal organs or the skeletal system, again with a touch of their fingers.

And one day last week, students at Carl Sandburg Elementary School used the technology known as SMARTBoards to create a chart on "Sports That Our Class Likes," with the program letting them choose the number of columns and which sports to include.

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