Lawrence Rouse,
Tipton Junior School

We currently have ten classes in School. We purchased five Genee Vision 6100, enough for one between two! We soon found ourselves in the position where we need to purchase another five to keep our classes (and our teachers) happy. 

Remarks from staff, such as, “these are incredible”, “What a phenomenal tool to use with the class”, “How did we manage before?”

Children have been amazed by the various features! “It’s great to share my work with everybody in the class, “Our Science lesson was great, the mini beasts looked like aliens and monsters”!

We have invited other schools to observe the Visualisers in action. Every school has been very impressed with what they have seen and as a result, have taken information away in the light of purchasing one or more of these versatile interactive instruments.

Phillip Scull,
Gilesbrook Primary School

We have only had the visualiser for a few weeks but it is especially useful for environmental science, looking at natural objects, pond creatures, flowers, etc.  So far it has been used for taking images but we hope to extend this to video capturing and use time lapse to record the growth of mould, seeds, etc. 

We have found it has applications across all subjects, particularly Science, Literacy and Art.  There are ways that it could be used in every curriculum area.  We are very excited about using it with a bird table in the winter as the massive magnification will allow children to see birds in great detail and we can capture images and sequences for future teaching.

At the moment we just have one visualiser – not because we don’t want more but because we do not have the budget this year due to the Government's failure to fund P.P.A. time in schools.

Quite apart from its use in first hand exploration of objects we have found it excellent as a teaching tool to model work as well as using in the plenary session to demonstrate quality work that pupils have done and explore exactly what it is that makes that piece of work excellent to raise pupil expectations of what they can achieve.   The ability to save images, mirror and annotate are invaluable during class input times.

We would certainly recommend it to other schools.  In fact we were so impressed with it when we received it that we held a demonstration for local schools in our hall as it was one of the most exciting recent developments that, I have seen.  It has enormous potential; it's the sort of resource that should be in every classroom and it links in so well to Interactive Whiteboards that it enhances and develops the ways in which they can be used.  The great thing about this is that the IWB is used in a genuinely interactive way getting away from “death by PowerPoint.”  

Interactive Whiteboards are the best teaching and learning tool that I have seen in my career and the Genee Vision 6100 is a fantastic development in their potential.  The fact that the Visualiser can also be used independently is a bonus; used in combination with an IWB the potential for exciting teaching and learning activities is limitless.  A superb innovation.

Peter Wilson,
Endike Primary School

Interactive Education had an extremely successful BETT-06 with the launch of a wide range of cross curricular ICT products.  In association with Genee World Interactive Education launched the Genee Vision range.

The visualiser or document camera, it is sometimes known is of the highest caliber and many people drew breath when they saw the zoom functionality (220 x), along with the freeze frame, negative/ positive, recording and animation facilities.  The Genee Vision 6100 has been demonstrated at many shows since BETT and the orders have been flooding in.  Many people remarked that the quality of the visualiser was far better than anything they had seen in the market and at the staggering special introductory price of £650 (normal price £995).

The camera can be used across the curriculum and in the different departments that have gone on to purchase the Genee Vision 6100.  LEAs since seeing the Genee Vision 6100 have begun talks with Interactive Education about a widespread upgrade program of visualisers across the whole LEA.

Mr. Peter Wilson from Endike Primary School came to BETT-06 and saw the Genee Vision 6100 in action within two days of the show he had placed an order.

One of my colleagues is using the Vision 6100 exclusively with her Interactive Whiteboard.  She loves it and would now hate to be without it.  One of the things which she appreciates is that it is extremely flexible.   If she has a lesson which requires the use of a book she can just put it on the board and use it straight away without the need for photocopying of extracts in advance etc.  She is also using it instead of the computer microscope which we have in school.  In art she has been zooming into specific sections of items to highlight areas of design which the children have to focus on.  She can also use actual pieces of art work to show.  It's great because if, I want to annoy her I can just say that it has to be someone else's turn now!!!!

It is also good for using specific examples of children's work both in the main part of the lesson and the plenary.  Work can be discussed and edited with the children.