Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) - Leading in Educational Sector

With the evolution of information and communication technologies in Indian educational sector, it’s becoming so convenient to effectively engage students in interactive teaching and learning sessions in schools and colleges. ICT solutions like Interactive whiteboard, student response system, digital projector, visualiser, touch screen, education software etc. have changed the entire face of education.

Today, schooling and teaching is changing due to changes that are happening in ICT technologies. Traditional aspects of living are getting transformed as ICT is gaining much importance in our lives. It’s proven now that ICT is changing society as well as education in a very big way.

An ICT product like interactive whiteboard is the most prominent and the most useful ICT technology available today. Interactive whiteboard, in particular, has transformed the entire teaching style. Teachers, no longer have to stay restricted to handful of books and notes to teach their students, rather, they can do net surfing, search encyclopedia, show live informational videos, open online dictionaries, do video streaming, study online, play video and a lot more with interactive whiteboards.

Genee Powerboard is one such amazing interactive whiteboard which carry unique features making it the most favorable choice in entire educational sector worldwide. It’s a board that utilizes Infrared technology and it doesn’t require any POWER SUPPLY. Just connect it with a PC using a USB and its ready!

Apart from these incredible features, this ICT resource has also got a Hard, Scratchproof Surface which is robustly designed to take the wear and tear of everyday usage in schools and educational institutes.

Genee View short throw projector is another ICT product which is gaining a huge demand in Indian market. The best part is that this interactive multi-surface projector is perfectly designed for carrying out interactive presentations even in tight spaces including small conference rooms, classrooms, trade show booths etc.

Now you can create big pictures from a shorter distance without the concerns about images getting obstructed with shadows or light shining onto the user’s face.

Give presentations while taking notes on screen, or highlight key points in real time. Control the line thickness and colour, take handwritten notes, type text from a keyboard then save as an image file.

How Classroom Response Systems facilitate active learning in large enrollment classrooms?

Have you ever imagined how big challenge it is for a lecturer to encourage active learning within a large classroom full of students?

Let me explain you with the most common situation faced by every lecturer and his/her students in their routine life.

A lecturer enters a big lecture hall with a setting capacity of 300 students. Some enthusiastic students already arrive before the session and simply take over the entire front rows. But, many students arrive at the last moment and somehow managed to find seats in the middle rows. Some students are still arriving even after the lecture has been started by the lecturer and are left with no other choice but to sit at secluded back benches. Front benchers get an advantage to listen to each and every word uttered out of the mouth of the lecturer but back benchers manage to hear just few words and are often distracted with other things like mobile phones, laptops etc. And that’s how the lecture goes on.

No doubt about the fact that large classrooms face several pedagogical challenges like these including lack of creating opportunities for student participation is the teaching session, difficulty in gauging pupil’s progress and lack of input and interaction technologies but still solution exists.

Audience Response System is that one solution which is extremely helpful in facilitating active learning in large enrollment classrooms.

It is a very popular and helpful teaching tool which is getting used in most of the schools and colleges across the world. Commonly known as clickers, these look like a mobile phone or a remote control. A teacher can easily use a classroom response system handset to ask multiple choice questions from the students during a class lecture. In response to it, students can feed in their answers in the format of true/false, yes/no, multiple choices, numeric and text in their respective response systems handsets which gets stored into the database of the computer. In return, teacher can display all the answers in the form of reports, table, graph and pie chart for students to see.

                                                                    

Genee’s audience response systems are the best classroom response systems available today. Best of all, these clickers are cost effective and intelligently designed for both educational and corporate sectors. Trainers, presenters and educators can rapidly and efficiently collect real-time data from participants and display results with these interactive response systems. Amazingly, these come in three different models- Genee pad, iQ pad and pebble pad. Each carries an exclusive quality of its own. Ergonomically designed, these clickers are perfect for younger students as well.

However, the trendiest technology which is gaining a special place in classrooms of today is virtual response system. In other words, it is the technology that allows students to be actively involved in real time classroom sessions without the need of handsets or clickers. With a virtual G pad students can easily attend important classroom sessions even by being absent from the classroom.

Learn to use Student Response Systems with three easy steps

Students Response System; commonly known as ‘Clickers’ are those wondrous hand held devices which are getting widely used in classrooms of today. Clickers have so intelligently adapted themselves into the education system of today that one can’t imagine teaching without them.

Moreover, this ‘New Era’ gadget is superbly contrived to carry out an effective two-way communication between teacher and students inside a classrooms and lecture halls. Lets me tell you how it works?

First step
Teacher asks a question with the help of her handset and the question gets projected on the large screen or interactive whiteboard.

Second Step
Students feed-in their respective answers in the form of true/false, yes/no, multiple choices, numeric and text which get stored into the attached computer.

Final Step
Teacher can display all the feedbacks and answers on the large screen in the form of table, graph and pie chart for students to see. Teachers can also discuss on individual or group performance regarding the poll or test she conducted. As a result; these useful student response systems helps in eradicating misconceptions, communication gaps and misunderstandings from the minds of students and motivated them to carry out open-ended discussions, polls and evaluations with utmost confidence.
Educators of today; prefer using Genee’s easy-to-use student response systems including Genee pad, pebble pad and iQ-pad; to teach their students. They believe that these unique clickers help students to understand key lessons and concept very easily and quickly.

Genee’s student response systems are extremely interoperable, flexible and can be used excellently with ClassComm software. Moreover; teachers can save a lot of time by using Genee’s response systems as compared to cumbersome and time consuming paper evaluation, result tallying and answer checking method.

Role of Document Camera in education

School, a place where children learn to play, discover, explore and unwind…

Just imagine! What will be the first reaction of those children; if, all of a sudden, a new teaching aid gets introduced in a 5th standard classroom.

Now; you must be wondering what this could be? And what this new teaching aid will do or change in the classroom?

Well, I would answer the second question first. This ‘secret’ teaching aid will do wonders in the classroom, for sure and this teaching aid can change or I can say, ‘Revive’ the whole spirit of that classroom.

Let me break the suspense…This teaching aid is a Vision Visualiser which is also known as Document Camera or Visual Presenter.  A Vision Visualiser is a type of video camera that is used to display text, 2D or 3D object on display devices like Interactive Whiteboards, plasma screens and touch screens.

           

As parents, we all know that how important schooling is for our little ones? At the same time, we also know that all the teaching solutions including Visualisers, Interactive Whiteboards, Student Response Systems and Projectors also play an equally important role in educating our children.

Genee’s entire range of Vision Visualisers is mesmerizing and worth considering. At the very first glance you will feel the difference. Genee’s Vision Visualiser or Visual Presenter has an ability to ‘revive’ the whole spirit of classroom teaching. These Vision Visualisers can help in grooming children in a much better way, if compared to conventional ways of teaching and learning.

The best part is that Genee’s whole range of Vision Visualisers is extremely useful in visualising the subject matter and improving their logical abilities and understanding of the subject.

Genee’s Vision Visualisers or Document Cameras are extremely useful in educating your kids because:-

·         Genee’s Vision Visualisers helps displaying artefacts and objects in close detail.

·         Interoperability is the key feature of these Vision Visualisers as they can be used in conjunction with data projectors, PC and interactive whiteboards.

·         Genee’s Visual Presenters help in reviewing and evaluating other student’s work by projecting it on a screen or whiteboard for group discussions or general comments.

·          Image freeze, zoom in & positive and negative conversion is also possible with Genee’s Vision Visualisers.

·         Genee’s Visual Presenters can be used for displaying even the complex details of any kind of tangible item, including fossils, photographs, books, 3D objects, X-ray film, art illustrations, maps and similar objects.

·         Genee’s Vision Visualisers work wonders in demonstrating art techniques such as color-mixing, object or paper cutting, origami, brushwork and shading in an art class.

·         Vision Visualisers can be best utilized in demonstrating geometrical technique such as how to use a scale, compass or protractor to accurately measure and draw lengths and angles.

What more can you ask for? As Genee’s Vision Visualisers help you save a lot of money on photo-copying. A Vision Visualiser can take a snapshot in seconds and its image can be viewed through the projector on any flat screen.

Now, stop drawing out the fun just by imagining!!

Turn it into a reality!!

Get your children this incredible presentation tool.

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.

Interactive Teaching with Student Response Systems

We all are aware of the fact that, now and then, educators try to find unique ways to encourage and enhance active learning in order to change the whole education system.  To serve this need, technology offered some powerful learning tools in the form of ICT and AV solutions that provides new and innovative methods to engage students and learners in a much better way. These ICT and AV solutions include Audience response systems, Interactive whiteboards, Visualisers, Projectors, graphic tablets, digital Signage and many more. One such comprehensive ICT and AV Solution which has helped engaging students and pupils in the best possible way is a Student Response System.
Genee rolled out an extremely sophisticated range of Student Response Systems in order to bring back the fun in classroom teaching and learning sessions and to make learning process more powerful, interactive and effective. Student Response Systems are wireless keypad handsets which communicate wirelessly with the help of USB receiver which is connected to a P.C.
Genee’s battery operated or rechargeable Student Response System handsets including Genee Pad, Genee iQ Pad and Pebble models which have been designed to facilitate every student, with a channel to submit their responses in an interactive and prompt manner.
The best part is that Genee’s Student Response Systems seamlessly integrates with Learning Response System software to engage everyone in the classroom. ClassComm is one such learning response system software which works to enhance teaching sessions by personally involving everyone in the classroom, tracking individual student performance and acquiring instant data in the form of lessons or lectures with instantly scored evaluations. ClassComm empowers teachers, and educators to do formative and summative assessment of students and pupils response to wide variety of questions formats through Genee Pads.
Just like a mobile phone, a Student Response System allows an option to reply to wide range of question types such as True / False, Yes/No, Open Format and Multiple choices. Genee’s Student Response System Keypads also allow entry of mathematical symbols as well, making them ideal for formative and summative assessment.
Genee’s Virtual G Pad carries all the features of virtual Student Response Systems. It enables student or pupil, sitting anywhere in the world, to get instantly engaged in a poll using a laptop, desktop or a mobile phone. Virtual G Pad is a truly advanced form of Student Response System that gives a freedom to study and learn together at the same time by accessing the questions online on their personal computer, laptop, iPod or iPad and be a part of these real time sessions.