| Advisors of Barking and Dagenham LEA visited Interactive Education’s exhibition stand at a recent NAACE conference and after seeing a demonstration of the Genee Vision Interactive Education were invited to demonstrate the unit to some key people within the LEA team. |
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| Barking and Dagenham LEA are renowned for running one of the largest pilots of visualisers in the UK, the advisors become passionate about the way visualisers could enhance lessons with dramatic effect with out any disruption or excessive cost. It became clear to the advisors that the Genee Vision was one of the best in the market and certainly the best value for money. Other models do not come with a light box or have recording ability and lack many of the functions that the Genee Vision has, coupled with the fact that some of these units can cost at least a third more than the Genee Vision. |
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| Initially the Genee vision was purchased mainly for a young student called Jessica who has visual impairment, she requires things to be enlarged for her to be able to view them and she also has problems with lighting and to wears tinted glasses to restrict the amount of bright light entering her eyes. |
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| Happy with their decision to purchase 93 units as part of a bespoke large screen technology solution for schools, this project is likely to expand over the coming months with more Genee Visions going into even more primary and secondary schools in the autumn term. Speaking with the senior ICT adviser involved with the project Mr. Guy Underwood, Interactive Education was keen to find out exactly why they found Genee Vision to be the best solution for Barking and Dagenham’s schools. |
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We found the Genee Vision to be extremely functional with out it being complicated to use, the layout of the buttons is easily viewed and managed along with the use of a remote control, the teachers and pupils do not have to be standing at the front of the class in order to display and view objects or text.
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Guy Underwood, Senior ICT advisor.
The Genee Vision has the functionality that can enable teaching
staff to:
• Engage through discussion about real objects.
• Record outcomes and process through digitally capturing still and movie images via USB2.
• Improve efficiency in lessons as everyone can see the same image.
• Reduce the need to photocopy resources. |
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The additional functionality of a split screen and input switching enables teachers to be creative with their use and delivery of educational content.
Barking and Dagenham LEA have become leaders in pushing the new technologies offered by the Genee Vision, the project is growing from strength to strength and looks set to bench mark future good ICT practice within the LEA. Interactive Education is also pleased that Barking and Dagenham have readily agreed to support Interactive Education in entering the Genee Vision in the prestigious BETT awards for 2007.
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