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Was on a review visit to Princeton with about 12 other people from various colleges and universities. We saw that Princeton was installing boards, I assumed it

Was on a review visit to Princeton with about 12 other people from various colleges and universities. We saw that Princeton was installing boards, I assumed it was whiteboards. I said just now installing whiteboards? No we are replacing all the white boards with chalk boards, because evn Princeton Professors can't tell the difference between a Sharpie and a Dry Erase marker. Everyone in my group stated laughing and I just thought as the guy in charge of classroom equipment, hmm how can we get rid of these $5,000 document readers at my school no on can figure them out.

Symbiote 9y ago
Do you mean things like [1]? That's my university, which was using them 12 years ago while I attended. It's a high resolution camera pointing straight down at an evenly-lit sheet of ordinary A3 paper. The "board" (the projector screen) was at a height that everyone could see. The lecturer could write with whatever pens they wanted; could continue from the previous lecture easily; could look forwards at the students rather than having their back to the class. They could show a page from a book, or bits of a robot or circuit board. There was no chalk dust, no marker smell, no dirty boards, no worn-out faint markers, no mistakes with permanent markers. No-one ever had trouble using it. Most rooms had two projectors, and the touchscreen on the right selected an input for each projector (desktop computer, laptop, DVD player, visualiser etc). [1] http://www.imperial.ac.uk/ImageCropToolT4/imageTool/uploaded-images/charingcross-brian-01--tojpeg_1448987676485_x2.jpg http://www.imperial.ac.uk/ImageCropToolT4/imageTool/uploaded... or http://www.imperial.ac.uk/events-and-hospitality/venues/charingcross/ http://www.imperial.ac.uk/events-and-hospitality/venues/char... Presumably this is the manufacturer: https://elmoeurope.com/product-category/visualiser/ https://elmoeurope.com/product-category/visualiser/
- baldfat 9y ago
  Yes but ours were Wolfvision. The reason why I wanted to get rid of them was A) The professors would try to fold them down and pull and break the arms and the damage the table. B) They ended up eating a ton of my equipment budget. For some reason the staff as a whole decided that it was ridiculous the college spent so much on the equipment (Up to $100,000 per large classroom) and revolted on touching anything because they didn't want to be responsible for damaging them. No one on my staff ever threatened anyone nor did the administration. After a few years I left but man the document reader was always the drama point. When I was in the classroom teaching I would go out of my way to use them all the tim.

Symbiote 9y ago

Do you mean things like [1]? That's my university, which was using them 12 years ago while I attended. It's a high resolution camera pointing straight down at an evenly-lit sheet of ordinary A3 paper. The "board" (the projector screen) was at a height that everyone could see. The lecturer could write with whatever pens they wanted; could continue from the previous lecture easily; could look forwards at the students rather than having their back to the class. They could show a page from a book, or bits of a robot or circuit board. There was no chalk dust, no marker smell, no dirty boards, no worn-out faint markers, no mistakes with permanent markers. No-one ever had trouble using it. Most rooms had two projectors, and the touchscreen on the right selected an input for each projector (desktop computer, laptop, DVD player, visualiser etc). [1] http://www.imperial.ac.uk/ImageCropToolT4/imageTool/uploaded-images/charingcross-brian-01--tojpeg_1448987676485_x2.jpg http://www.imperial.ac.uk/ImageCropToolT4/imageTool/uploaded... or http://www.imperial.ac.uk/events-and-hospitality/venues/charingcross/ http://www.imperial.ac.uk/events-and-hospitality/venues/char... Presumably this is the manufacturer: https://elmoeurope.com/product-category/visualiser/ https://elmoeurope.com/product-category/visualiser/

baldfat 9y ago
Yes but ours were Wolfvision. The reason why I wanted to get rid of them was A) The professors would try to fold them down and pull and break the arms and the damage the table. B) They ended up eating a ton of my equipment budget. For some reason the staff as a whole decided that it was ridiculous the college spent so much on the equipment (Up to $100,000 per large classroom) and revolted on touching anything because they didn't want to be responsible for damaging them. No one on my staff ever threatened anyone nor did the administration. After a few years I left but man the document reader was always the drama point. When I was in the classroom teaching I would go out of my way to use them all the tim.