Response Systems

Using Response Systems
 
With the advent of social networking sites and the growth of journalism and media industry, the world has become a small place. Today, everybody’s opinion counts.  Whether you are electing a minister, constructing a dam, choosing your favourite reality TV star, stating your position on a political issue, sensitizing people about a particular social or economic topic, knowing their opinion about anything that affects them, or teaching students, the one thing that bonds these factors is the use Voting system.

Areas where polling systems are used:

• Electronic Feedback forms
• Quiz shows
• News Shows
• Seminars
• Audience awareness programs
• School/college teaching
• Instant assessment
• Voting for any and all purposes.
• Unburdens the teachers from checking and allotting marks

You might be thinking that in a closed group or at a classroom level voting becomes such an easy task. The presenter, teacher, or speaker might as well ask the audience to raise their hands, or use some such method to conduct polling.

Sounds Easy peasy!?

Well, as they say, ‘Easier said than done.’

Though counting heads and raised hands or taking feedback on paper are still the favoured norms, yet one cannot discount the fact that these methods of polling, feedback and assessment take forever.

Let us now take a look at the drawbacks of this manual polling system.

• Excessively Time consuming.
• High chances of incorrect evaluation. Teachers/Examiners/Evaluators take a lot of time reading, going through the answer sheets, correcting mistakes and assessing the students’ performance. Since it is all manual, there is a big chance that the teacher might overlook some mistakes thereby giving an incorrect assessment.

How does having Interactive Response System save you?

An interactive system effectively enhances the interaction levels of the classroom and makes everything organized and at the same time cost and time effective.

With an interactive response system you can:

• Take polls
• Expect answers to your questions in a variety of formats
• No scope for incorrect evaluation
• Instant assessment
• Evaluate poll results in a variety of ways
• Email results in a various formats, forms and presentations
• Form strategies, formulate plans and reach conclusions based on poll results
• Re-emphasize the key concepts unclear to students (If higher percentage of students answer a particular question incorrectly, then you know that the specific idea is still not clear to the students)
• Redefining teaching methodology as per the response system results.

With so many advantages at your disposal, bring interactive audience response systems for an amazing polling, voting and student response performance.

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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.

How Classroom Response Systems facilitate active learning in large enrollment classrooms?

Have you ever imagined how big challenge it is for a lecturer to encourage active learning within a large classroom full of students?

Let me explain you with the most common situation faced by every lecturer and his/her students in their routine life.

A lecturer enters a big lecture hall with a setting capacity of 300 students. Some enthusiastic students already arrive before the session and simply take over the entire front rows. But, many students arrive at the last moment and somehow managed to find seats in the middle rows. Some students are still arriving even after the lecture has been started by the lecturer and are left with no other choice but to sit at secluded back benches. Front benchers get an advantage to listen to each and every word uttered out of the mouth of the lecturer but back benchers manage to hear just few words and are often distracted with other things like mobile phones, laptops etc. And that’s how the lecture goes on.

No doubt about the fact that large classrooms face several pedagogical challenges like these including lack of creating opportunities for student participation is the teaching session, difficulty in gauging pupil’s progress and lack of input and interaction technologies but still solution exists.

Audience Response System is that one solution which is extremely helpful in facilitating active learning in large enrollment classrooms.

It is a very popular and helpful teaching tool which is getting used in most of the schools and colleges across the world. Commonly known as clickers, these look like a mobile phone or a remote control. A teacher can easily use a classroom response system handset to ask multiple choice questions from the students during a class lecture. In response to it, students can feed in their answers in the format of true/false, yes/no, multiple choices, numeric and text in their respective response systems handsets which gets stored into the database of the computer. In return, teacher can display all the answers in the form of reports, table, graph and pie chart for students to see.

                                                                    

Genee’s audience response systems are the best classroom response systems available today. Best of all, these clickers are cost effective and intelligently designed for both educational and corporate sectors. Trainers, presenters and educators can rapidly and efficiently collect real-time data from participants and display results with these interactive response systems. Amazingly, these come in three different models- Genee pad, iQ pad and pebble pad. Each carries an exclusive quality of its own. Ergonomically designed, these clickers are perfect for younger students as well.

However, the trendiest technology which is gaining a special place in classrooms of today is virtual response system. In other words, it is the technology that allows students to be actively involved in real time classroom sessions without the need of handsets or clickers. With a virtual G pad students can easily attend important classroom sessions even by being absent from the classroom.

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.

Role of Visualisers 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.

Interactive voting system

The teachers find it difficult to assess the student responses and opinions using traditional methods. However, there is now an ICT device (information and communication technology) interactive voting system used to survey the student about a subject topic, or receive instant response during lessons.
Interactive voting systems promotes interaction between teachers and students by conducting opinion poll. Interactive voting system assists students in their education through entertaining and interactive manner. Interactive voting systems are educational assessments tool designed to build an attractive and fascinating learning environment that will enhance participation of audiences or students. Interactive voting systems are incredible for assisting student centric learning. Students’ interest in the subjects is raised with interactivity that Interactive voting systems provide to the lesson. Students are also keen to take part in the tests as their answers are anonymous. Interactive voting systems have a unique student ID to track the student individually.
An interactive voting system helps teachers to find pattern about student strength and weakness. Teacher can use this pattern to improve students understanding about subject topic. It has been scientifically proven that the students who learn through Interactive voting systems understand even difficult concepts much more easily than the students who study lessons using traditional methods. It has also been noticed that the use of Interactive voting systems helps in improving attention, information retention during session. Even the silent and shyest student can give his answer spontaneously with confidence through Interactive voting systems. Integration with the visualiser makes it an amazing tool to ask spontaneous questions during classroom.
The interactive voting system has a main instructor handset, set of student handsets, wireless receiver and presentation software. A teacher asks questions like true/false, yes/no, multiple choice questions etc from his handset with help of presentation software and student respond to questions by pressing keys on their handset. Teacher can plan their own question slides using software or they can buy readymade content from market. Teacher can do educational assessment with interactive voting system. The software displays reports using multimedia 3D games and charts immediately. Teacher gets individual feedback about the topic, gather information for reporting and analysis of student using interactive voting system. The reports can be exported to computer in file formats like excel, PDF, HTML etc.
It has also been observed that the interactive voting system help learners in enhancing alertness and information remembrance for a longer time period during session. There has been growing trend in the use of the interactive voting system across the globe. Schools, colleges and universities are implementing these polling devices to create fun loving environment for leaning in an interactive manner.