Can Smartboards fly?

[Karenrbw]

Our district recently got a grant to place Smartboards in every elementary classroom and to provide each elementary student (2-6) with a laptop computer for school. The technology started coming in this summer. One of our support staff came in one morning to find a delivery truck parked at one of the doors. As he watched, the driver walked to the back of the truck and dropped a Smartboard about 4 feet unto the parking lot. There were three Smartboard already on the ground and the boxes were heavily damaged. Now the shipping company and the company that sold the Smartboards are in a discussion about who should pay for them. The funny thing is that if he hadn't been seen, we would have had real problems. Just wanted to share a little story.

[Chef Dave]

YIKES! Customer service sure isn't what it used to be.

I wonder if this driver still has a job?

[Boxcar]

Were the boxes marked "fragile" or "handle with care"? If they didn't have labels warning the delivery person, I don't see how you can fault him. Unless he only delievers technolgical and/or sensitive equipment, he might have just thought it was like bulletin boards or something that didn't need special care. Not everyone knows what a SmartBoard is.

I hope it all gets sorted out for you.

[mopar]

It is amazing that your district provided you a smartboard and laptops for all the students. We can barely get one smartboard per school.
I am glad that someone saw this man! It would have been terrible if you got all this equipment and couldn't even use it.

[Eric]

I would love to hear how this story ended and if the smart boards were replaced or are they still in working condition?

[busbus]

... Now the shipping company and the company that sold the Smartboards are in a discussion about who should pay for them.

What a terrible thing to happen! I wonder, was the delivery person working alone? Perhaps the Smartboards were too heavy for one person to handle. It doesn't matter, now.

Anyway, has the issue of who pays been resolved?

[JMStan]

Hi there,

I'm a tech dept guy and let me tell you, they sure can :) - the smart board actually isn't all that sensitive, it's the projector that is.
I dropped one of our new ones down the stairwell by accident (yea yea it was summer and I was rushing).

Plugged it in and it works just fine.

However if projectors are dropped, that's another story.

[Flipp]

Is the smartboard a touch sensitive overlay, or does it work with an infrared grid of some sort?