eBeam Smartmarker 2- Second Time is a Charm

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU5hnpur2nVQibGca_DRqP8wYVwdoay-Ful9xXz15VGlMP7dbfZAcUgUXrxXsdYyEwG-oayQy_14-E5bhj2U6Rx7QEbyiOUXlvgEvKwSOcbRlDB5UomYK20ohV8dYr4V77kFslUJGe_n4/s1600/ebeam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU5hnpur2nVQibGca_DRqP8wYVwdoay-Ful9xXz15VGlMP7dbfZAcUgUXrxXsdYyEwG-oayQy_14-E5bhj2U6Rx7QEbyiOUXlvgEvKwSOcbRlDB5UomYK20ohV8dYr4V77kFslUJGe_n4/s1600/ebeam.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam SmartMaker 2</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Two years ago, I did a <a href="http://assistivetek.blogspot.com/2015/06/equil-smartmarker-capturing-and.html" target="_blank">review of the </a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://assistivetek.blogspot.com/2015/06/equil-smartmarker-capturing-and.html" target="_blank">Equil Smartmarker from Luidia</a> and was impressed with the capabilities. The </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Equil Smartmarker</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">allows creative groups to capture and share whiteboard drawings and brainstorming sessions with remote groups. Since that time, the product has been re-branded by the parent company as <a href="http://www.e-beam.com/smartmarker.html" target="_blank">eBeam Smartmarker 2</a> with some really outstanding features and capabilities. The hardware which includes an oval capture bar and whiteboard marker in a special housing has remained the same from the users </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">perspective, but under the hood a lot has changed. The Basic </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 Kit comes packaged in a plastic case that fits the </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.e-beam.com/smartmarker.html" target="_blank">eBeam Smartmarker 2</a> and the Marker housing (holds standard dry erase whiteboard marker) which also serves as the charging base station -which is accomplished with a micro usb cable that is included. You will also receive a digital eraser should you want to remove any graphics from your whiteboard session. Everything you need to get started with comes inthe Basic kit.</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Enterprises was good enough to send me the basic </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 kit to review, which included the capture bar, and whiteboard marker in the special housing, digital eraser, and a Bluetooth receiver for a Windows computer. The </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 can capture a 16 ft by 5 ft area giving lots of space to draw and sketch. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 has a great look and feel in that classic high gloss white finish. No matter how good tech looks- the out of the box experience is essential for users to want to use the device. In this regards, the </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 did not let me down. eBeam Enterprises has spent considerable time getting the device to make the Bluetooth pairing child's play. Prior to using the device you will instructed to go to the Apple Store or Google Play to download the Beam Marker app which then is used to pair to the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2. Windows and Mac users can download the eBeam Marker software app from the <a href="http://www.e-beam.com/smartmarker.html" target="_blank">eBeam Enterprises</a> website. Once you launch the eBeam Marker app it automatically goes out and looks to connect to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">without the need to have to manually pair it using the Bluetooth settings. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In every case, I was able to seamlessly pair the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to my IPhone 7S, iPad Air and Surface Pro running Windows 10. In fact eBeam Enterprises went so far to use audio to alert you when the device has paired which is outstanding. eBeam Enterprises did ship me a USB </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bluetooth</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> k</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ey for use with my Windows 10 computer which made connecting the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 a breeze.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Using the eBeam Marker app is rather straightforward and as you write on the whiteboard, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 will capture your ideas seamlessly which can be shared out to remote groups for viewing. Once you have captured your first whiteboard, it is easy to erase the contents and pressing on the Add Page button on the </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 you are now ready to capture additional whiteboard screens during your session. One of the really exciting features from my perspective is the ability to invite others to your whiteboard session. I had the opportunity to trial this feature with my graduate students who installed the eBeam Marker app on their smartphones. From my iPad Air was able to invite them to my whiteboarding session- which enabled them to view the contents on the whiteboard. One of the new and outstanding features available when using the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> is being able to give certain students permission to annotate and interact with the whiteboarding session. Using the various tools in the app students could draw and type and actively participate in the whiteboard session which makes this a very powerful team collaboration tool. In the latest version of the </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 individuals who do not have the  eBeam Marker app installed can access the session via the web which ensures that anyone with a computer or mobile device can jump into your whiteboarding session without the need to install any software. Once the session has ended you can save your session to a PDF file and quickly share it with others. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For those of you who don't have access to a whiteboard in your school or classroom you may want to try using the </span><a href="https://www.think-board.com/" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" target="_blank">Think Board</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, which is whiteboard film with an adhesive backing that you can adhere to most flat surfaces. For my testing I used a small Think Board which I affixed to a wall in my office to test out the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2. The Think Board <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3cxaP0wIaPEFjDBTlT2h_PezpVADO7Lv0breFqycZUC1fpeiM2W-o_1jKHbua8KdKiowrdx9HkVvsymL3XvQVEEXHStaUWfaSNGHn_P2qaDQDlAONIWc_YLzcoZRM8TPa7vg8VCE54Ro/s1600/ebeam3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="1600" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3cxaP0wIaPEFjDBTlT2h_PezpVADO7Lv0breFqycZUC1fpeiM2W-o_1jKHbua8KdKiowrdx9HkVvsymL3XvQVEEXHStaUWfaSNGHn_P2qaDQDlAONIWc_YLzcoZRM8TPa7vg8VCE54Ro/s320/ebeam3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>eBeam SmartMarker 2 with Think Board</b></td></tr></tbody></table>surface was great to write on and was just as easy to erase the contents, without leaving and residual whiteboard marker ink behind.  The Think Board and </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 combination worked flawlessly and gave me the freedom to place the whiteboard in a small area in my office. The Think Boards come in various sizes and price points giving educators lots of options. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this day and age of STEAM and Makerspaces school districts should definitely consider the </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 as a means to share and collaborate one another's ideas when using whiteboards. Many schools are redesigning their classroom spaces to include large areas with whiteboard spaces for students to brainstorm and draw. Now imagine being able to take these ideas and capture them in real time with remote groups of students with opportunities for feedback. For school districts who are looking to take whiteboarding to the next level, then having access to a </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 is essential. With the latest iteration of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 you can now have remote groups jump in and provide live feedback and be part of the session. What better way for students to learn about the power of team work and collaboration then by having them have access to real world tools and technologies. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While the </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 has a unique space in STEAM and Makerspaces it also could play a critical role when helping teachers to being able to make accommodations for students on </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">home bound instruction or those </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with visual </span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofqVWou5F9tXz-TPs13aarbI4D8njjBP8CZCDbp3rTjl6hyRl_FgipXQI1p8r5HMfZ_VBBmeGH2sYv2XtVcNfPzE0nSr-oJMsdPnCmdw6lJKhkwdab_cRH_ApB2GvQ1nFER1SYi5_g4k/s1600/ebeamsoftware.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="eBeam Marker Software" border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="1600" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofqVWou5F9tXz-TPs13aarbI4D8njjBP8CZCDbp3rTjl6hyRl_FgipXQI1p8r5HMfZ_VBBmeGH2sYv2XtVcNfPzE0nSr-oJMsdPnCmdw6lJKhkwdab_cRH_ApB2GvQ1nFER1SYi5_g4k/s320/ebeamsoftware.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Marker Software</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>impairments, or learning issues. The <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> gives teachers in classrooms the opportunity to capture notes for students who may have this as an accommodation in their I.E.P. The </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 does support hand writing recognition which would allow teachers to go from hand written whiteboard notes to traditionally typed notes which can be edited-right within the software. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 is an ideal tool especially in math and science classrooms which rely on numbers and formulas which are much more difficult to access from a keyboard. Similarly, using the </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.e-beam.com/smartmarker.html" target="_blank">eBeam Smartmarker 2</a>, teachers could stream the whiteboard notes to students with visual impairments at their desk, which would enable them to enlarge it on their mobile device. Of course this is an ideal tool for students who are on home bound instruction, who could see the contents being written in real time and be able to interact with the contents. For students on home bound instruction the school would just need to add audio  conferencing capabilities. </span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 is a powerful and well implemented technology that has lots of application in the schools. Whether just capturing notes or working with remote teams you will find the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2 a joy to work with. For more information about the </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBeam Smartmarker 2- visit their <a href="http://www.e-beam.com/smartmarker.html" target="_blank">website</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

eBeam Smartmarker 2- Second Time is a Charm

eBeam SmartMaker 2 Two years ago, I did a review of the  Equil Smartmarker from Luidia and was impressed with the capabilities. The  Equil ...

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