Good meeting this morning with the our casework company that constructs the teaching walls. Our big issue has been on how to mount the interactive white boards (iwb) on the teaching walls. Teachers are concerned about the loss of storage with the 75 inch board we used in the pilot. We are trying to design a mount for the iwb that would swing or pivot upward like a garage door to allow access.
A secondary, but equally important issue is what size iwb to use. I would like to use the 95 inch board that has the 16/9 high definition aspect ratio. Although not much of what we use in the classrooms is in that format, in 5 years it will undoubtable dominate the landscape. The bigger board is heavier and more diffcult to mount and it would obscure more of the storage.
Our best thinking is that we would like to have 95 inch board installed in a demo classroom at Valadez Academy nest week. I provided them with a board to use in the demo.
1 comment:
Bob,
Was reading somewhere last week and Dell refers to "intelligent classroom". While "smart" has legs, we could shift towards this idea. I agree that it's unwise to call it the future, as we had something like that years ago and it's funny to remember the hardware that was considered 'future'. Food for thought.
Post a Comment