SMART Boards and an Interactive Underwater Experience

Once again, my Twitter friends have shared a fun interactive web application that really looks cool on the SMART Board. It's an interactive underwater viewer created in Papervision3D which is an open source realtime 3D engine for Flash.

I don't know how long this will be available so you should definitely check it out before they remove it.

After the flash contents loads, it will display an underwater simulation containing various types of fish and other creatures. When viewing this on your SMART Board, you can set it so you can touch and drag your finger around the SMART Board to investigate the landscape or you can set it so it follows a particular fish as it swims around. The main character in this underwater adventure is definitely the shark and it's a lot of fun having the application follow it around as it explores the reef.

To switch modes, you simply click on the picture of the fish in the bottom  right-hand corner. You also have the ability to have the application display in full-screen.

If you want to really catch your students' attention, have this running on your SMART Board when the students enter your classroom.

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Comments

[Mr. Aspinall]

What a neat idea! I'll be sure to try it this week. Have you shown it in a classroom yet?

[Matt Tosiello]

Silly question but... where is the link? I clicked on the pictures and they are just graphics.

[Gilmar Mattos]

I used it today with all my groups and they all loved it. Thanks for sharing! I also used the sand thing - awesome.

[TFusco@sjsdny.org]

How do I go from Portrait to landscape in Smartboard?

[Teachers Love SMART Boards]

The SMART Board will display at a 4 by 3 proportional resolution. If you use the Notebook software and view in Entire Page or Full Screen mode, the width of the page will get less and less as you add objects below the bottom of the page. You'll have to experiment a little to see what happens as you move objects in Notebook farther and farther down the page and then display the page in Full Screen.