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I know that in most of my classes at USC, and here in the Penn Law school Transparencys are out. instead a camera is mounted over the desk so that a normal bit of paper can be projected using the digital projectors that most of the nicer classrooms already have.

I have to admit that it makes a lot of sense to do it this way. and with the price of projectors dropping (I bought mine for $500) I think it might finally kill the overhead projector. After all, I think everyone would rather write on normal paper with normal writing utensils. And some people might even use the other features of it being a projector. (power point, movies, etc. though I think that most of these are actually less helpful for learning than just plain writing would be)

On a related, but quite different note, what I always wanted to see was a laptop that had no screen, but instead had a high resolution low power display like a projector. This would allow you to have a reasonably sized screen (so long as you could find some wall) and to get the keyboard at a more ergonomicly reasonable place in relation to the screen. I'm pretty sure we don't have the tech to do it well though.

just saw this on boing boing....
http://www.monochrom.at/farewell-overhead/

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