Promethean ActivBoard

Today I took a look at PrometheanWorld to become more familiar with the Promethean ActivBoard. Because I only had the opportunity to view pictures and read information on the Promethean ActivBoard, I could not distinguish too much of a difference from the SMARTBoard. It is still a durable screen that can be poked, touch, or leaned on without damaging the board, while allowing access to computer projection to the class. The Promethean ActivBoard "enables anything that can be seen or done on a computer screen to be projected onto an interactive whiteboard – bringing every classroom to life." One feature that stood out to me, different from the SMARTBoard was the add on feature of the ActivWand! This is a pen just like the others, but has a twenty inch extension that could be very useful for small students to reach the top of the board. I also noticed that the Promethean ActivBoard did not offer different colored pens as the SMARTBoard offers. I am assuming that the Promethean ActivBoard allows for the switching of pen color through a click of the screen, rather than the simple picking up of another pen. Until having actually used a Promethean ActivBoard, I do not think that I could make proper judgment on preference over the SMARTBoard or not. However, the Promethean World website supplied a great deal of information on the Promeathan ActivBoard to enable me to become a bit more familiar with other solutions of interactive whiteboards.