Miracast + Samsung = bliss

All the 5th grade classrooms and everyone at Dressel have an attachment on their projector called Miracast. This is a tiny little device that allows for total wireless projection from the laptop. You can cast anything, including video, to your projector from anywhere in the classroom. It is like you are living in the future.

There is one other great feature, it will cast Android phones!

Today Kim Scronce had an issue, her ELMO would not work. We tried everything but no luck. You know exactly what it is like, a whole room of kids looking at you when things don't go right. Yikes!

Kim just took out her phone, connected it to the projector and moved on. It was amazing. In the image above you will see the picture I took of the screen. She is using Snapchat's camera as a portable ELMO. Why Snapchat? The screen stayed on, when using the regular camera the phone screen kept going dark. Kim was in the back of the classroom showing something on a student's desk and everyone in the room could see it clearly. I think I would prefer this over using the ELMO which is usually stuck in the front of the room.

Don't have an Android phone? That is unfortunate. This feature only works on Android.

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