

NOTE: I use five 32″ TV screens in my classroom spread around the room. These instructions about projecting your laptop to a TV monitors require more modern laptops and TV monitors. SOURCE: Collaboration Lesson Plan How to Project Computer to TV Screen You have one screen on your laptop or chromebook, and you have a different screen on the projector. Source: Effective Communication Lesson plan This is what an “Extended Display” looks like.

This is what most teachers do – they show the same screen on their teacher laptop and the classroom projector.


It’s important to know how to show a different display on your laptop screen vs projector screen Back then, I was one of the only classrooms in my school to have my own projector… because I bought it myself. FYI: When I first wrote this post in 2013, I used Dragon Naturally Speaking to dictate to my computer to type down what I said. How to project computer to TV article was last updated: Nov 24, 2019.
