Livingston Education Foundation

Video projectors are mounted permanently on the ceiling and can connect to a television, DVD player or computer allowing for information to be available to all students for group instruction.  Use requires simple cable connections and the click of a few buttons.  It is as easy as switching input between the television and the DVD player in your home.

 

"In my science class, students produce Excel spreadsheets of data collected that could be displayed, analyzed and discussed by the whole class.  There are science websites from museums and government agencies that provide real-time data that students could view and analyze." - Chris Ebneth, Grade 5 (Hillside)

"I would demo searches so kids could use the laptops and available desktops appropriately.  In the math data unit, I would use sites that have interactive graphs to show how change of data changes graphs.  In the number sense, geometry and fraction-decimal units, there are websites with interactive "paper" that allows demos of changes with shapes showing area/perimeter, changes of fractals and tesselations, rotational and reflective symmetry; there are interactive geoboards that can be modeled...and then manipulated by students.  There are teacher-created games such as math Jeopardy loaded on my desktop that I could play with the kids for reinforcement of skills.  There are video models of math problems that might spark a student"s understanding.  I could go on and on..." - June Volk, Grade 5 (Hillside)

"I can use the LCD projector to work on writing in social studies.  By projecting sample essays on the large screen, we can review and edit as a class to discuss the writing and editing process." - Lori Perez, Social Studies (LHS)

"[By projecting] a poem from the Internet onto the [screen] in my classroom, I was able to facilitate a rhetorical analysis of the poem by highlighting key phrases, allusions, and sounds for the class to discuss.  In this way, I was able to model poetic analysis." - Freddie Glucksman, English (LHS)

"An LCD projector in my classroom would allow me to immerse my students in Spanish culture and help them to actively participate in their Spanish lessons.  For example, my students could apply their vocabularies and better compare cultural themes in real life situations by watching news programming in Spanish, Spanish television shows and Spanish commercials." - Carmen Michael, World Languages (LHS)

"I'm going to use my new LCD projector to teach CPR and First Aid.  The new Red Cross program is completely presented by DVD.  This program visually illustrates the current methods to perform rescue procedures." - Nancy Ooms, Health/Physical Education (LHS)

"I would use an LCD projector to keep my students informed about current events.  For example, my students could analyze politicians" websites, speeches and advertisements to come to their own conclusions about candidates." - Rebecca Emert, Social Studies (LHS)

"With an LCD projector in my classroom, I can enhance instruction in Psychology by illustrating psychological theories with clips of actual experiements.  This helps students who are visual learners." - Jennifer Alvich, Psychology (LHS)