Tuesday, March 15, 2011

How Interactive Visualisers can do wonders in a teaching and learning system?

Adding a ‘pinch’ of Quality and Freshness into the entire teaching and learning system can do wonders. One such wonderful ICT and AV resource which is doing wonders to the whole teaching and learning system is Genee’s Interactive Visualisers.
Genee‘s Interactive Visualiser is a digital teaching and presentation tool that enables teachers to share a wide range of information and artifacts with their students and pupils via an interactive whiteboard and a PC. Genee’s Interactive Visualiser allows the students to view text, 2D or 3D images, artifacts and even living things which those traditional overhead projectors fails to do.
Multi-Platform Genee’s Interactive Visualisers can easily integrate with all ICT Solutions and workable across all Networks, Servers and Software Platform including Windows, Linux and Mac.
Genee Vision Visualisers promotes collaborative work by capturing classroom notes; load annotation tools and navigate documents, websites and presentation slides. At the same time Genee Vision Visualisers are also capable of integrating text from Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft excel, Word Files, web pages or access Spreadsheets into a presentation.

Genee’s Digital Vision Visualisers possess a motorized head which can turn flexibly up to 330 degrees. The exclusive auto focus, image and video capturing, split screen and negative or positive function makes it different from other usual Visualisers.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Whiteboards In India Education System

Whiteboards

Interactive Whiteboards are ICT (information and communication technology) solution to education providing classroom environment that makes learning process for students much more full of life, interactive, synergistic, informative and personalized to the needs of the students. Interactive Whiteboards in India education system is going to play an important role in enhancing teaching. Indian Education system will be greatly enhanced by implementing Interactive Whiteboards. Every school, college and university in India is showing interest to implement Interactive Whiteboards into their classroom as a replacement of traditional whiteboards or flip charts.

Indian Teachers both in rural and metro schools have significantly started using Interactive Whiteboards to improve the quality of the instructions. Interactive Whiteboards make teaching sessions interactive and motivating. Using the software, Teacher can write, draw and annotate on its surface and navigates the computer functions from interactive whiteboard with finger or pen. Whatever teacher writes on its surface can be saved in the computer as an electronic file in various formats such as Picture, power point, PDF, HTML. These electronic files can be used later for repeated sessions or mail to absent student as an attachment. The software has a built in library of images on different subjects which teacher can use into their lessons. Interactive Whiteboards allows teachers to record their session in video format which can be shared in to their classroom. They have lots of tools for presentation like spotlight, snapshot, reveal etc. Spotlight shapes helps to focus attention on specific part. Reveal feature allows you to hide information and reveal in any direction.

There are different types of Interactive Whiteboards in the India based on technology. An IR (Infra Red) interactive whiteboard uses infra red beam to make the board touch sensitive. A resistive membrane board consists of two resistive sheets separated by air gap. Electromagnetic Board is composed of grid of wires, operated with stylus. Interactive Whiteboards in India are used at all stages of education as a replacement of traditional whiteboards or flip charts. There are different manufactures of Interactive Whiteboards in India providing wide range of Interactive Whiteboards.