AVerMedia AverVision 330: document camera.(Test Drive)

AVerMedia U.S.A. 423 Dixon Landing Road Milpitas, CA 95035 (408) 263-3828 www.avermedia-usa.com $1,499.99.

There's nothing new under the sun. I've always believed that oft-quoted biblical maxim applies to most of the new digital technologies that are marketed to educators. So, aren't document cameras just the glorified offspring of the trusty old overhead projector? Well, maybe. Just don't tell that to the colleagues with whom I shared the AVerMedia 330. They loved it.

Though the 330 merely blends existing technologies in a novel configuration, teachers reacted as if this compact piece of equipment had been dropped, heaven-sent, directly from the gilded …