CollabrATEC

• By Linda L Briggs
• 04/01/09 

If there’s a single most powerful benefit from using a collaborative software tool called ClassSpot, according to Stanford’s Menko Johnson, it’s this: It lets an instructor control multiple display screens in a classroom simply and cost-effectively. “That’s huge,” Johnson said. “Whenever you have a classroom beyond a single display, you enter a whole new environment of multiple computers displaying different things at the same time…. But how do you run this multimedia show without letting it take over the entire class?”

Johnson, who is currently an instructional designer and technologist at the … Continue Reading

Johnny Lee a student at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a low cost system for creating an interactive, multi-point whiteboard. He uses a pen light (infrared) for front or rear projected displays. 

You can find out more about the low cost system at his website.

The THUNDER Pro is a white board collaboration system.

You can learn more about this product and others at www.polyvision.com

You can read the Product Brochure (Warning PDF) for the THUNDER.

You can see a video demo (Warning Very Large) for the THINDER.

You can buy this product and may others from http://www.touchboards.com/polyvision/polyvision.html.