Smartboard Smarts????

In September, I attended a workshop during the first Professional Development day entitled "Smartboard"...blah, blah. I don't remember the rest of the name because, I was trying to figure out from the description what a Smartboard was. My first guess, inspired by the name, was that it was a typing keyboard without the monitor. I figured I would go to this conference because I wanted to see technology in action and how I could use it to help my students with written output challenges. My second guess was that I had no clue. The latter was true. Boy, was I blown away. I couldn't believe that this cool piece of technology was being used in my school district. Now I am no techno whiz, but I really wanted to learn how this technology worked.