Wireless Video Projection and ChromeCast

One of the requests we get every year from teachers is to continue to expand the wireless capabilities of the technologies used in the classrooms. Teachers want to be able to connect to projectors and audio-visual systems wireless from anywhere in the room, and put class content on the screen from their laptops or tablets.  The Epson projectors and proprietary software we have put in place has worked well for many applications, but bandwidth limitations still make streaming video and audio choppy. Wireless video transmission is still an emerging technology, but we have been testing ChromeCast as a solution to this need, and the preliminary results seem positive. A test version is up and running in the technology training room, and we are deploying our first pilot run of this in Clinton now. If feedback is positive, it is likely that we will continue to deploy this solution in other classrooms during the summer.