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.

ICT Solutions

The innovation in ICT (Information and Communication technology) solutions to enhance education has brought revolution in teaching methodology. The time of educators using the traditional blackboards with chalk for writing and displaying notice with noticeboards is becoming outdated. The vital aspect in a learning process is the quality of the instructions delivered by the educators to the students. Educators are deploying ICT solutions to improve the quality of the instructions. There has also been growing trend across the globe in the use of ICT solutions to enhance whole class teaching and learning. There is considerable research evidence that students are more engaged, show increased interest and are highly motivated when their learning is integrated by ICT solutions. Teaching with ICT solutions has become essential thing for an educator in the technological age. A lot of difficult subject matter can be taught better and in more detail with ICT solutions teaching aids. ICT solutions incorporate audio-visual techniques that results in increasing the interest and memory of students. An educator must utilize the ICT solutions successfully to create the best platform for learning and teaching. Every school, college and university across globe is implementing ICT solutions into their classroom. ICT solutions open up a world of opportunities for teachers to be innovative in their teaching and in student learning. It is very important that educators should be well trained to utilize the new opportunities provided by ICT solutions to them.

Without the use of ICT solutions like Interactive whiteboards, Visualisers, response systems, educational content, educational software etc schools, colleges and universities can’t compete in this age of Global Village. Nowadays ICT solutions like interactive Whiteboards have become a part and parcel of learning system. Majority of the schools, colleges and universities are using Interactive Whiteboards into their classroom. Educators are using Interacting Whiteboards for annotation work. The students’ interest is increased as the class room is highly interactive. ICT solutions provide quality and Interactive multimedia educational content to teachers. The audio visual content has great impact on student because any thing that is audio visual our mind stores that information for a longer period. ICT solutions enhance children’s creativity and build their self esteem. It is observed that students are highly motivated when their learning is supported by ICT solutions. Visualisers, projectors, digital signage and response systems are truly useful ICT solutions for educators. A Visualiser also called Document camera will allow whole class presentation of text, image or 3D object, including student’s written work, books, pictures and scientific samples by exciting visual technology. Projectors projects the entire computer contents to projection screen making the presentations effective. ICT solutions are going to make the classrooms high-tech and interactive enhancing both teacher skills and student skills.