The Power of the EduDisplay as a Multimedia Presentation Station

I had the pleasure of working with Shannon Foley, Librarian Extraordinaire at Cedar Creek Elementary School, for several years as an Ed Tech. I learned way more from Shannon about technology than she ever learned from me and she helped to make my transition into Eanes ISD as an Ed Tech a wonderful experience. 

This week, Shannon invited me to her library see the EduDisplay in action. We are looking into purchasing one of these for our library and I wanted to get a clearer picture of what its potential was. Below is the information that I gathered from my visit. 

Here is a diagram of some of the parts of the system. 

Some of the pluses are:
1. It has its own built in hard drive so it is an awesome combination of computer and doc camera with the option for iPads to be connected as well. 
2. It comes with software that is very much like the SMART Notebook software which allows you to have on-screen interactivity. 

For the project that I observed today at Cedar Creek, students each researched a different president. They transformed their notes into a short speech as if they were the president introducing themselves to the class in the form of a Chatterpix video. Shannon used the doc cam to project a book of poems called "Rutherford B., Who Was He? Poems about Our Presidents"  and after she read each poem, the student assigned to that president shared their Chatterpix project. 

Here are some photos and a video from today.