Imagine a classroom environment that excites students to learn, encourages interaction, and drastically cuts back on teaching and prep time. For many educators, it may sound too good to be true, yet this environment is steadily emerging as the future of classroom learning.

Equipped with a digital projector, these systems can interactively project a myriad of information and content to the entire class. For example, the systems can display video, cable TV, Internet content, documents, a teacher’s computer interactions, and even live microscopic images. Conveniently, a student’s classroom assignment can also be projected to the entire class directly from a student’s PC.

The experience becomes truly interactive with the inclusion of an interactive whiteboard, a tool which revolutionizes the chalk and whiteboards of yesterday. With so many features, just the time savings of being able to store and recall all notes, assignments, and instructions written on the interactive board makes it an invaluable tool.

Depending on a school or classroom’s needs, a system can additionally be equipped with better sound capabilities, as well as cameras which could further enhance the visual experience. Computer monitoring and control software can also be included in an interactive computer classroom, giving instructors and learners better hands-on access to the information they need.

Whatever the needs of a school or classroom, all interactive classroom systems can adapt to these needs through the simple inclusion or exclusion of various features. All systems, however, begin and are designed around a single piece of equipment: a digital projector.