Tuesday, March 22, 2011

ICT Solutions- for better attitude towards Teaching and Learning System

Immense Technological advancement in ICT (Information & Communications Technology) resources and solutions is empowering and lightening up the learning and teaching system worldwide. ICT training and presentation solutions comprise of Interactive Whiteboards, projectors, touch screens, Audience response systems, Visualisers, educational software, accessories and peripherals. The best part is that ICT solutions are getting widely accepted to play a key role in development of every nation. This is because, ICT products can easily reach even at the remotest areas; and can improvise the most challenged educational systems.

Genee’s ICT training and presentation solutions can cause transformative advancements worldwide. Now, it is possible for any student or a teacher to gain access to higher bandwidths, use more direct forms of communication and have access to sharable resources. With the use of Genee’s ICT resources, the concept of ‘Quality Learning’ is emerging and growing. Say for instance, now it is possible for a student or a learner to instantly respond to questions put up by teacher using Genee’s effective ICT solution called Audience response systems. This ICT resource is designed to facilitate every student, with a channel to submit their responses in an interactive and prompt manner. At the same time, it is also possible to access and control Computer Applications, Multimedia Files, Diagrams and Demonstrations simply by touching Genee’s powerboard. Students or learner can now drag, manipulate, draw, underline, and write notes using the ‘Intelligent’ digital pens onto this interactive powerboard and save their work for later use in the Supportive Software.

It is a well accepted fact that the effective usage of Genee’s ICT resources and solutions in the classroom results in positive academic outcomes, which includes much better test scores, better attitude towards teaching and learning, and better understanding of abstract concepts.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Audience Response System

Technology today is making deep inroads into the field of education. ICT and AV resources are considered as practical and enabling solutions which are enhancing the quality of education in the whole world. One such ICT and AV resource which has contributed a lot in making the teaching and learning system more interesting is an Audience Response System.

An Audience Response System, which is also termed as Student Response System or Classroom Response System is a range of ICT (Information and communication technology), based educational assessment gadgets or handsets which are designed to build up an interactive and engaging learning environment in order to enhance student or learner participation.

With an interactive Audience response system, students can submit their replies against questions raised by Teacher in a class room. Students can answer in the form of as true or false, yes or no, numeric, text, multiple choices and sequence with these Student Response Systems. The response software installed on the computer accumulates all the responses collected from the Audience response system, to assess the individual student performance to ensure that they have understood the subject both theoretically as well as practically.

An Audience Response System is an incredible ICT resource for assisting ‘Student Centric Learning’. With an Audience Response System, Students or Learners can actively participate in polls, questions or surveys raised by teachers or presenters. Audience Response System help in eradicating cumbersome and time consuming paper evaluation, result tallying and answer checking methods, in turn saving a lot of time.

Genee’s Audience Response System range is highly interoperable, flexible and easy to use. These Classroom Response Systems works amazingly with the latest version of Genee’s ClassComm software which allows a teacher or presenter to create lesson plans quickly and easily, as it is compatible with PowerPoint. With these innovative Student Response Systems, teachers get a chance to gauge out an idea of students understanding with their respective feedbacks and on the similar lines, students also get appropriate feedbacks on their answers from the teacher, instantly.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

How to Use a Projector in the Classroom

Projectors is a device that projects information stored in computer on projection screen at the class and opens up a world of possibilities for new learning experiences for the students. Teachers can display multimedia, power point files, animation, motion video and other interactive contents to their students with bigger image of their Laptop. A Projector keeps the audience interested and increases their retention of information being presented. The single biggest impact on the use of ICT into classroom is brought by the installation of a Projector, permanently fixed to ceiling and wired to sockets placed near some form of permanent screen.
The Projector system can be linked to a desktop computer dedicated to this purpose or it can use a plug in facility for a laptop computer. This arrangement drives the whole staff ICT progress and promotes sharing of expertise and ideas. When choosing a Projector for a particular classroom, the brightness and resolution are important parameters. Projectors are easily portable from one department to other for lectures and staff meetings. Some Projectors are equipped with remote control devices that include an IR beam, zoom function and the ability to act as mouse for computer.
The Teacher can manipulate information at a distance from screen. When connected to an interactive whiteboard, it makes teaching fun and interactive. It can also be integrated with visualiser, wireless graphic pads etc. There is a wide range of projectors manufactured by different companies are available in the market. Implementing projector in classroom really provides benefit of enhanced interactivity.
Interactive Education provides ICT (information and communication Technology) solutions like interactive response system, Projector, visualizers, classroom furniture, classroom design, curriculum content creation etc to teachers, educators and institutes.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

How Genee Board help in education

Modern classroom equipped with ICT Products
Technology plays a vital role in enhancing the learning environment system.
The time of educators using the traditional whiteboards with a dry erase pen for writing is changing rapidly across the globe with the advancement of ICT (Information and communication technology). The critical aspect in a teaching process is the quality of the lessons delivered by the teachers to the students. Nowadays Teachers are using Genee World Whiteboard (Genee Board) to improve the quality of the instructions. Genee World Whiteboards (Genee Board) make teaching sessions interactive and motivating. Nowadays schools, colleges and universities are equipped with ICT tools such as Genee Board, Visualiser, response system, projectors and educational software. Teaching with Whiteboards has become essential thing for a teacher in the technological age. A lot of difficult subject matter can be taught better and in more detail with Genee World Whiteboards(Genee Board). Teachers must integrate various types of ICT tools such as Genee Board, visualisers, response systems etc to interact with students. Genee World Whiteboard incorporate audio-visual techniques that results in increasing the interest and memory of students. An educator must utilize the Genee Board successfully to create the best platform for learning and teaching. Teachers are using ICT based educational content with audio and video into their lessons. An audio visual content gives the learners a better learning environment as they can visually watch the actual phenomena and processes. Teacher can write, draw and annotate on its surface and navigates the computer functions from Genee Board 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. They have lots of tools for presentation like spotlight, snapshot, reveal etc. Genee World Whiteboards (Genee Board) is definitely going to play a vital role in teaching and learning.