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.

Genee Sense- an Interactive System that can instantly turn any Ordinary Whiteboard into Interactive Workplace

Genee has recently launched yet another excellent ICT resource- Genee Sense. After taking a quick look at it, I immediately got an impulse to share my experiences with you! Be sure to read this post and share with others as well! I am excited to hear what you think of incredible Genee Sense!

Genee Sense is an immensely portable interactive system that can be easily attached to any flat surface of ordinary whiteboard, turning it into the state-of-the-art interactive digital whiteboard.

This incredible and aesthetically designed ICT resource can instantly give interactive capabilities to any existing whiteboard or any flat surface and is very convenient to store or carry from one classroom to another.

Users can use this wondrous Interactive system in two easy steps. Firstly, they need to mount it on their existing ordinary whiteboard magnetically. Secondly, they need to connect the PC with ordinary projector. By doing this, they can perform the functions of mouse with the help of stylus pen on the interactive screen. Not only this, users can easily access everything on their computer from their whiteboard and enjoy its interactive capabilities instantly. Best of all, Genee Sense is smartly optimized for both lectures and presentations.

The best part is that; Genee Sense is a complete budget friendly solution which is smartly designed for all kind of schools, colleges and educational institutions. To further add, it is perfectly designed to integrate seamlessly with all existing applications. Right from the schools in the rural areas to the reputed schools in the metropolitan cities; Genee Sense can suffice the need of all those users who can’t buy expensive Interactive Whiteboards but still feel the need to infuse latest technologies into their system.

Affordable and eco friendly Genee Sense is perfectly designed to deal with the massive problem of classroom theft as it is very portable and compact gadget; which can be instantly detached and stored at any safe cupboard or closet after the completion of teaching session.

With Genee sense, teachers and presenters can start teaching and presenting interactive lessons, videos, audio, websites and a lot more on their ordinary whiteboards. They can simply plug-n-play Microsoft office annotations tools and start annotating on the top of Power Point, MS Words and Excel. That’s not all it offers, it is completely compatible with 32 and 64-bit XP, VISTA, Win-7, Linux and MAC operating systems.

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 Sync- Incredible Classroom Management Software for Computer-Based Classrooms of Today

We all know that computers are turning out to be amazing educational tools, but, at the same time; they can also be a huge distraction to learning. The Internet, Social sites, games, online cricket, instant messaging and personal email are constant temptations for pupils.

Genee Sync is the most reliable classroom management software that removes all of these distractions so teachers can teach their pupils more effectively. It is a tool which gives the teacher control over student computer in real time, enabling a safe and personalised learning environment. Just a network connection between computers is what that’s required to run Genee Sync in a classroom. Teachers can monitor the classroom from their computer, present a lesson with annotation tools. Application program and Internet access can be managed with ease and comfort.

It’s the easiest to install and simplest to use; best suited for teaching in a computer-based classrooms. Some of the remarkable features offered by Genee Sync are as follows:-

Helpful in Reducing Pupil Distractions
This reliable classroom software is extremely helpful in reduction of pupil distractions. Teachers can instantly supervise student computer activity by monitoring their active desktops and by limiting their applications and web browsing usage. This not only helps teachers to take control over pupil’s machine in the classroom but also help teachers to keeps students on their respective task.

Instantly Monitors Students Activities
Genee Sync is one essential tool which instantly monitors pupil activities within a classroom setting. This classroom software prevent incorrect usage of class computers as its special Web Lock tool allows the teacher to be selective with internet content that can be viewed in the classroom by the pupils.

Useful in assessing pupil Understanding
With the help of this wondrous Learning software; teachers can do real time supervision of pupil’s computer usage and assess their understanding. Besides this, its App-Manager quickly manages and changes application which pupils can use or view.

Live Annotation over Pupil’s Screens
Teachers can instantly share their individual screen with the class. Its incredible Focus Tool allows instructor to annotate over student work and highlight key points. Not only this, with this Classroom software; teachers can instantly share one student’s desktop with the whole group of students or the entire class. From their individual computers, a student can promptly demonstrate or present his own answers to the whole class.

Advance shut down and lock feature
The best part is that Genee sync helps teachers to shut down or lock students systems by giving just a single command on their individual system.

Hassel free two way communication
With Genee sync a Teacher can create hassle free two way communication with each and every student individually. No need for worksheets as data can be directly send during class room sessions onto their individual computer screens.

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.

Adding up Interactive capabilities into existing projectors with Interactive Projector Module

Genee Link is a highly advanced Interactive Projector Module that is capable of providing interactive capabilities to any projector. The best part is that it ‘gels up’ extremely well with existing projectors so that the need of purchasing expensive interactive whiteboards gets eliminated.

The great thing about Genee Link Interactive Projector module is that it can be used simply by calibrating the camera module with the existing or new projector and then installing the LightPen II software. It is precisely designed to provide interactivity in real-time without inconvenient delays.

Genee Link is immensely portable solution as it suffices the needs of those users who need interactivity at economical prices and with specific projector requirements. Besides this advantage, Genee link Interactive Projector Module enables its users to access its interactivity is matter of seconds. This budget friendly Interactive Multi Surface Projector Module is simple to install, easy to use and highly compatible with any kind of software.

Genee Link Interactive Projector Module uses Infrared Technology, throw ratio of 1.4 and sensor accuracy of +/- 6 pixels. This innovative and tremendously Interactive Projector Module can be connected directly to Microsoft Windows XP (SP2)/ Vista/ Windows 7 operating systems via USB port hardware interface.

This latest Interactive Module allows its users to annotate digitally on the projected images with the handheld Light pens. Eventually, digital patterns gets detected from the light pen and passed on to the projector over a radio frequency. Data is then passed over to the PC or laptop. Users can use this technologically advanced gadget with any kind of software, on any surface without purchasing any extra hardware.

Unlike other cumbersome projectors, Genee Link interactive Projector module doesn’t limit its users to stand in front of the presentation room. The presenter can freely move and give presentation or can even handover the light pen to learners sitting at the back of the room to easily interact with the projected images and content.

With Genee Link Interactive Projector Module, users can easily interact with an image on the screen simply by moving, pointing, clicking, writing, scrolling and navigating. It is a perfect portable gadget for those schools, outdoor business travels, colleges and institutions which already have Projectors and who are in search of some interactive solution by which they can utilize their existing projectors and avoid major investments.