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Interactive whiteboards offer many obvious benefits but can hardly be classified as cheap, which is not the best news for schools struggling with ballooning budgets. Installing interactive whiteboards school wide can be a large and tricky project - particularly if it is the school’s first foray into interactive learning.
Enter eBeam. Meant as a half way house between the plain marker board and the bank breaking full interactivity of high tech whiteboards, eBeam is a compact, portable, and easy to use device that turns the average wall or board into an interactive whiteboard.
The eBeam system’s most important component is a corner shaped receiver that can capture writing, note taking and drawings on a 8 ft by 4 ft area. The receiver is complemented by a number of eBeam marker sleeves that house standard coloured whiteboard pens. The movement of the sleeves is tracked by the receiver at the corner of the whiteboard, and the text and drawings on the board are automatically picked up in electronic format by the receiver, and transmitted to a nearby laptop or desktop wirelessly.Not only is each pen stroke recorded, the eBeam gear can also record accompanying sound so that verbal presentations also become a matter of record.
