Assignment #5

SMARTboard Board Game

This was the first time I ever created something using the SMARTboard software. I came up with the idea after creating an actual board game and thought it would be fun to create a board game that could be used with the SMARTboard.
After I had an idea of what I wanted, it was relatively easy to get started. I used links from the board game to the question cards and special cards. I wasn't sure how to do this at first so it took a couple tries but it was really easy to figure out. I had some problems with the cards. If it were an actual board game, there would have been a deck of cards but I could not figure out how to make a deck of cards so if someone landed on the same square more than once they wouldn't get the same card. So I had to create a single slide with several additional questions and specials. It would have been nice to figure out how to shuffle additional cards per square but I was unable to. I also tried to add a fireworks video to the last slide with a link from the WIN square but was unable to get the fireworks to play automatically and so I didn't want to use it.
So I learned: linking, adding flash tools, and basically working with SMARTboard software.

I feel fairly good using the SMARTboard software after this project. I know there is much more that I could learn to do and with time I hope to be able to figure out some more things to do and make but this was a good learning experience. I have always been a fast learner and being able to learn things on my own so this didn't end up too hard but I had no clue where to start when I first started so it was a learning experience.

I hope to be able to use this in my classes in the future. While I may not be able to use SMARTboard software, at least I will have the idea and be able to go from there. I really enjoyed working on this project.