{"id":2529,"date":"2013-09-05T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2013-09-05T10:12:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:12:28","slug":"tablets-in-learning-and-teaching-mirroring-your-surface-pro-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/09\/05\/tablets-in-learning-and-teaching-mirroring-your-surface-pro-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablets in Learning and Teaching: mirroring your Surface Pro tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2530\" style=\"margin: 5px;border: black 1px solid\" alt=\"Microsoft website\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MSwebsite-300x163.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/09\/MSwebsite-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/09\/MSwebsite-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/09\/MSwebsite-500x272.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/09\/MSwebsite-900x491.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/09\/MSwebsite.jpg 1916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re lucky enough to have a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet (expensive but, dare I say it, cooler than an iPad) , you may be interested to know that there is a way of &#8216;mirroring&#8217; the tablet&#8217;s screen on a bigger HD display, such as a teaching room projector. This is despite the fact that the Surface Pro lacks the &#8216;Airplay&#8217; functionality of iPads, or the emerging &#8216;Miracast&#8217; wireless display technology that is starting to be adopted on Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>US company <a title=\"Screenbeam kit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.actiontec.com\/products\/product.php?pid=298\" target=\"_blank\">Actiontec sell a reasonably priced kit <\/a>comprising a USB dongle transmitter and a receiver and, although we haven&#8217;t tried it, reviews seem to suggest that it works very well with the Surface Pro. See for instance <a title=\"Tom Grissom review of Screenbeam\" href=\"http:\/\/eiuitc.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/03\/day-7-how-to-wirelessly-display-mirror.html#!\/2013\/03\/day-7-how-to-wirelessly-display-mirror.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Grissom&#8217;s review <\/a>which includes a video demonstration. (Incidentally, Tom&#8217;s blog includes lots of other useful suggestions on using the Surface Pro for teaching.)<\/p>\n<p>I know of at least one academic colleague with a Surface Pro so we may well get to try this out soon, in which case I&#8217;ll post an update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re lucky enough to have a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet (expensive but, dare I say it, cooler than an iPad) , you may be interested to know that there is a way of &#8216;mirroring&#8217; the tablet&#8217;s screen on a bigger HD display, such as a teaching room projector. This is despite the fact that<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/09\/05\/tablets-in-learning-and-teaching-mirroring-your-surface-pro-tablet\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[112,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tablets","category-techwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}