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.

Genee Slate- An incredible Mini Whiteboard with its uses and benefits

In present times, digitizing tablet is emerging as a wondrous ICT and AV resource; which is intelligently designed to aid users in carrying out live presentations and classroom sessions; effectively.  With this new era gadget, users no longer need to stay rooted to one place - behind a lectern or in front of the audience while carrying out presentations.

A graphic tablet or graphic pad is an input device; with the help of which; users can write text or draw images on a flat surface in a similar manner as they can draw on a paper. But the unique feature of using a graphic tablet is that whatever; a user draws on a graphic tablet doesn't appear on its surface; instead the image appears on the attached computer screen or on the whiteboard screen.

Genee slate is one such market leading graphic tablet which can't miss to leave a solid impression on the minds of its users.  It is a Virtual Mini Whiteboard which can be passed around audience or students and can be operated from anywhere in the presentation hall or classroom.

It is a Digitizing Tablet which can be brought into use for setting up an effective communication with an interactive Whiteboard, Visualiser, computer or laptop through a wireless RF interface that plugs directly into any USB port on the PC or laptop. The best part is that it allows its users to navigate through files and other content even by moving around the presentation hall or classroom.

Some of the outstanding features of Genee Slate are as follows:

Extreme Mobility
With this cutting edge Digitizing Tablet; Presenters or teachers no longer need to stay rooted to one spot while facing an audience or group of students. They can access all their files; wherever they want; in the room.  Its lightweight stylus carries all necessary mouse functions.

Ergonomic Designing
Genee slate with super fine ergonomic designing and advanced RF technology with contoured and sloping palm rest assures high amount of comfort and reliability to its users.

Live Annotation
This next generation Digitizing Tablet is perfectly carved for carrying out live annotations over presentations, programs, documents and web pages or on Microsoft applications such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word. With Genee slate; a user can easily draw images and graphics on a flat screen in a similar way as drawing on a piece of paper.

Vast Clip Art Library
Free software is also included with these revolutionary Graphic Tablets which includes a clip art library of over 2,000 images, making Genee Slate a great ICT and AV solution for carrying out lectures and presentations. It also includes PowerPresenter and handwriting recognition features. 

Battery Life
Genee slate comes with an astonishing battery life of over 16 hours and that too in a continuing mode. Moreover, its rechargeable battery carries a capacity of 800mA which makes it a best Digitizing Tablet amongst all.

Besides these tremendous features, Genee slate also carries resolution as high as 2000lpi, Online Help Menu, Super VGA color monitor (800 x 600), CD ROM drive and USB port. Its Unique Soft keys are smartly located across the top of the tablet; allowing instant access to helpful Presentation Tools such as Annotation Pens, Spotlight and Reveal.

Genee’s Visualisers are the best visualisers

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.

Explore Modern Teaching Ideas

Technology plays a significant role in creating an efficient learning environment with modern teaching ideas. The period of traditional whiteboards and notice boards is going to change with the progress of ICT (Information and communication technology) in education. Teachers therefore should employ modern teaching ideas. Modern teaching ideas are utilized to make schoolroom lessons informative, synergistic and exciting. Nowadays, Classrooms are setup with modern teaching ideas such as Interactive Whiteboards, Visualiser, response system, Best projectors and educational software etc. Cultivating the students with modern ideas is vital part of the technological age. Many complex subjects can be learned with easiness to a greater extent with modern teaching ideas. Teachers have to use different kinds of modern teaching ideas to interconnect with students. Modern teaching ideas incorporate audio-visual techniques that influence the interest and memory of students. Utilizing modern teaching ideas successfully will create the best platform for learning and teaching. Teachers are using multimedia content with audio and video into their lessons. A multimedia content gives the student a better learning experience as they can watch the actual phenomena and processes. Teachers can display multimedia, power point files, animation, motion video and other interactive contents to their students with bigger image of their Laptop through best projectors.