Mike Albee

For a generation of students who grew up with computers, the use of LCD projectors in the classrooms is the natural extension of technological developments around them. LCD projectors have great potential in improving how teachers present information, as they provide large images for videos and presentations at a nominal price without occupying valuable classroom space.

Computers have become teaching tools and sources of lesson plans and presentations such as multi-media and digital images. A computer can be connected to a classroom projector for instructions to use a wide range of sources such as PowerPoint presentations, curriculum Web sites, server files and streaming video resources.

Projectors have the ability to hold and increase a student’s attention, and reduce the prep work for lesson planning. Students can interact and give presentations to the entire class from their laptops.

This year Fairmont is proud to announce that all 7^th -12^th grade classrooms (at all campuses) now have a ceiling mounted LCD projector. These projectors are used to display lessons, websites, and streaming video from the Discovery Channel’s educational collection.

In the 2008/2009 school year, Fairmont is planning on extending this technology even further, providing this exciting new technology in our 5^th and 6^th grade classrooms.