Abstract: An interactive video board allows creation of a virtual classroom that enables real-time audio-visual communication and a real-time exchange of digital information between students in a physical classroom and a remote student at a location outside the physical classroom. The interactive video board includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a physical storage device that stores machine-executable instructions through which the CPU controls operation of the interactive video board. The video board also includes a multitouch display device that itself includes both (a) a video display device, which drives the presentation of graphical information (including streamed audio/visual data in some embodiments) to the students in the physical classroom, and (b) a multitouch input screen configured to capture, in response to a student's touching the screen, graphical input data for display on the video display device in the physical classroom and on a remote device used by the remote student.