Interdisciplinary unit with SMART boards

With easy access to a multitude of sources and the ability to save and share files the SMART board could be an accessible way to have an interdisciplinary unit between classes. I can see a couple week unit between a history and an English course. The classes could instant message or use a discussion forum. One class could research, the other could write creatively based on the research. This could all happen instantly, allowing two classes to individually focus on different aspects of one issue. It seems that the separation of classes has been predominant; this would be an easy to fuse them back together.