Do teachers these days still use overhead projectors?
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« on: August 25, 2014, 01:32:16 AM »

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« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2014, 01:35:08 AM »

They did in High school, I don't know about now.
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« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2014, 01:41:01 AM »

Yes, its not exactly uncommon.
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« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2014, 01:56:58 AM »

My younger brother has never seen an overhead projector in action.
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« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2014, 02:12:58 AM »

As an actual high schooler, most don't, but there are still a minority -- maybe 1/4 to a 1/3 of teachers -- who have been teaching for some time or are old-fashioned who continue to do so. 5-6 years ago (when I was in middle school), they were pretty ubiquitous. I think there'll come a point soon when the school will stop buying replacements when the current ones break (actually, it might already've been reached) and then they'll slowly stop being used.
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« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2014, 05:35:44 AM »

I work in primary schools and I've never seen any; but all the teachers I've worked with are young and more used to the electronic kind.
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« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2014, 06:52:27 AM »

In many of the university lecture halls we now have a digital document camera like the one below. It uses an HDMI cable to connect to a digital projector.



We do still have overhead projectors for those few smaller classrooms that have not been upgraded to a digital projector.
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« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2014, 07:16:11 AM »

Yes, I had several last school year who did, though I expect by the time I'd start teaching, I won't be using them.
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« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2014, 07:19:37 AM »

At my school no. Everything is projected from a computer onto the white board.
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« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2014, 07:22:46 AM »

No, not at all. Some teachers have a document camera like what muon posted, which they'll use with a projector, or they'll just use the projector with their computer.



Other teachers have a Smart Board, which they plug their computer into - that displays their computer on an interactive screen, that they can use the markers to write on.

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« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2014, 07:27:28 AM »

Even during my high school years (2001-2005) we already switched to beamers instead of overheads (overheads were frequently used in my first 8 years of school though).

A friend of mine who became a teacher tells me that now they use mostly notebooks, iPads or Samung tablets for presentations.
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« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2014, 08:41:14 AM »

What about filmstrips?
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« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2014, 09:36:49 AM »

One of my PhD professors does, though he does it because he's the only one.
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« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2014, 10:07:44 AM »

Yeah, Muon2 is correct - there is a type of overhead that does not require a transparent sheet - I assume that is what that is. A lot of classrooms (not all) are equipped with them. They're really cool because you don't have to make copies. If there's something in a book that you want to show to a class, you just put it on that thing.

Don't know about HS - probably depends upon where you go. I'm certain the old style ones are still around.

When I was in middle school there was a teacher who used a '60s era slide projector. Tongue
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« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2014, 03:14:07 PM »


those were the best.
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« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2014, 10:17:13 PM »

Occasionally
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« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2014, 10:51:15 PM »
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Every day in several classes. We also have the kind Sam mentioned. When I was in preschool, my teacher still played children's songs off of vinyl records.
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2014, 10:56:56 PM »

When I was in middle school there was a teacher who used a '60s era slide projector. Tongue
One of my teachers last year used one from time to time to show old pictures.
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« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2014, 10:42:51 AM »

I use one weekly. I just refuse to assimilate to the computer culture. I am sure one day the forces that be will take it from me.
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« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2014, 10:57:38 AM »

There are some old-fashioned who do, but that's mainly because my school is a private school and has not yet switched to more modern equipment as most schools in Austria have... It's getting less with every school year though..
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« Reply #20 on: August 30, 2014, 09:57:36 AM »

When I was high school, it seemed to be the transition period from overheads to Smartboards. There was also a big transition from chalkboards to dry erase boards. In both cases, I found the latter far more preferable.
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« Reply #21 on: August 30, 2014, 10:30:12 AM »

Some schools are still using chalk boards.
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« Reply #22 on: August 30, 2014, 12:27:20 PM »

Do teachers these days still use overhead projectors?

They do.  They're fancy now, and they're called Elmo.  At least that's a popular brand just now.  They come with little adjustable cameras so you can project little demonstrations from the lab bench on the wall, and they have buttons which you can push to dismiss them and they fold down under the bench and out of the way when you're finished.  They also have little USB ports so that they can be integrated with other learning technologies.  In the end, though, Elmo is an overhead projector, so yes.
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« Reply #23 on: September 02, 2014, 05:45:56 PM »

I use one in almost every trial in our courtrooms, including just last week. Yes, perhaps a document could be scanned in to a laptop, but then it'd need to be projected on a screen for the jury and witness to see anyway, so why go through that trouble when it's easier to pull photos or reports from a small stack rather than closing a window and searching through files?

If they were better quality projections (everything on the screen is noticeably darker and less visible than the photos themselves; jurors have agreed with me afterwards how victims' injuries only were apparent when they got to see the photos in deliberations), I'd have no complaints.
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