Monday, May 2, 2011

Interactive Whiteboard – An Ideal Digital Teaching Aid

These days, Interactive Whiteboards are making a huge contribution in educating today’s younger generation. Teachers and students are getting engaged with Digital Whiteboards as promptly as they complement the rest of the technology. With the help of this technology, educators can create personalised teaching material from online resources and present effectively on the Interactive Whiteboard.

Genee Powerboard is one of the leading Interactive Whiteboard that utilizes gesture technology to give unparalleled performance in board rooms, conference suites and classrooms. Genee powerboard is a large computer display which can be easily and effectively controlled by pen, finger or stylus.

Moreover, this Interactive Whiteboard comes with ceramic surface which is durable, cleans up easily and is coated to provide minimal glare. Genee Powerboard is tremendously designed to allow its users to annotate over any application and save their work.

Real time on-screen editing is also supported by Genee Powerboard. Its graphic tools allow input of custom graphics or images and defining the background selection as well. Besides this, Genee Powerboard also supports third party software applications to create, edit and annotate over live motion videos.

In addition to these benefits, this Interactive Whiteboard outperform conventional blackboard by every means as it can integrate seamlessly with visualisers, document cameras, audience response system, PC, writing tablets and all kind of audio-visual teaching tools. This Interactive Whiteboard is exclusively designed for distance learning as it gets easily integrated into a complete conference network.

Similarly, pro digital plus is also an ideal ICT solution for educators, presenters and trainers. It is an outstanding Digital Whiteboard that comprises advanced electromagnetic technology. This Interactive Whiteboard offers hide, reveal, spotlight and snapshot features that produce creative PowerPoint presentations in lesser time.

Moreover, pro digital plus is an electronic Digital Whiteboard that easily connects to a computer and projector creating a large interactive projection screen. Unlike, traditional whiteboard, whatever a teacher writes on its surface gets saved in the computer and can be easily retrieved later on. Eventually, it helps in improving the quality and content of classroom learning resulting in greater student participation and enhanced learning.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Why Students and Children Love Genee Powerboard?

It was a bright Monday morning. At sharp 8:30 am, the school bell ranged. I saw students running towards their classrooms.


This day of class I started with an introduction to Genee Powerboard- an Interactive Whiteboard with a difference!


Amazingly, I saw so many faces with so many expressions. Each face was full of Excitement, Joy and Surprise, as they saw something ‘New’ in their classroom. This new thing was an incredible Genee Powerboard – An interactive Whiteboard with a difference!

In less than a minute, they all realized that this whiteboard can be operated simply by touching its interactive screen.

The delight on their faces was evident!

And it’s not surprising. At 5 years of age, they were able to touch and gain computer experience just by interacting classroom computer via digital whiteboard, just with their fingers.

All I can say is that, once again, Genee Powerboard savored success by sprinkling its magic onto the hearts of 5 year old ‘Excited’ students.

To get a clear picture of what this amazing Genee Powerboard is, let me explain…

No entangled cables, no mouse, no keyboard and no costly installations, Genee Powerboard’s unique design guarantees safer and better classrooms for present and future. Rather, it brings out creative side of students as they can easily and interactively engage themselves in drawing diagrams, opening images and videos, exploring internet or illustrate their points by writing directly on these whiteboards, and that too with dry-erase marker and finger gestures.

Genee Powerboard is one such amazing Interactive Whiteboard designed for rough usage by students. It utilizes infrared technology to give unparalleled performance in classrooms. These Digital Whiteboards are built to withstand hard knocks or any other learning curve thrown at it in the classrooms. The best part is that Genee Powerboard comes with New Ceramic Surface option which allows the user to use these Digital Whiteboards just like conventional Whiteboards without permanently marking the surface.

In less than 6 hours, I felt a ‘Big’ change, especially, in the students of that class, as now they were able to learn and explore a lot more with interactive learning sessions with this awesome teaching aid.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Interactive Whiteboards- From a Child Perspective!

I felt so much ecstasy and pleasure when I touched Interactive Whiteboard for the first time in my classroom. It was an incredible feeling for me when I touched a digital whiteboard with my finger and gazed it with my eyes. It was simply connected with a projector, PC and educational software.

Amazingly; I was able to Shrink, Enlarge, Select and Swipe high definition and 3D digital images and videos; in matter of seconds, just by moving my fingers onto that Interactive Whiteboard.

It felt awesome to access Videos, Animations, Pictures, Web pages and every Audio - Visual element that I could dream of; in just couple of clicks!

I couldn’t stop myself getting up from my desk to ask more about this wonderful Interactive Whiteboard from my teacher. She could see a spark and eagerness to know about this Interactive Whiteboard in my eyes!

And she told me that this is a Genee Powerboard.

Astoundingly, I was able to electronically draw, write and erase over projected images, annotate in color, highlight the text, cut or paste images and capture it all for my future reference just by using my hands and fingers on a Genee Powerboard. What I liked most about this Digital Whiteboard is that it is extremely durable, easy to clean up and well coated to provide minimal glare in the classroom. Moreover, my teacher was able to write with chalk, pen and fingers simultaneously; onto Genee powerboard.

The amazing part is that now I started liking my tedious History class as well. Zoom-In and Split Screen features of Genee Powerboard allowed me and my classmates to view images of Historical Artefacts and Fossils much minutely, clearly and deeply.

Now, I enjoy my Science class the most! As now I can Zoom-In and move all the planets around the Sun to see how they move in relation to each other to understand my Solar System chapter much easily on Genee Powerboard.

Not only this, with Genee Powerboard; I can use features like Image Freeze, Positive & Negative Conversion in my Physics class, get demonstrations on Color-Mixing, Paper Cutting, Origami, Brushwork and Shading in my Art class; use interactive Geometrical Tools like Scale, Compass or Protractor to accurately measure and draw lengths and angles in my Mathematics class.

Like me; my classmates and friends also feel the same motivation and excitement to learn more and more using Genee Powerboard.

And Now, Genee Powerboard has just become a way of life for us!

We know, it’s going to be there and it’s a resource that we would always love to use fully!

At the end of the day, Genee Powerboard to me; is a resource… that is newer, more visual, more Interactive and a lot more colorful.

Like me, you should also know more about Genee Powerboard…

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.