Wednesday, October 16, 2013

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.

Source: http://audience-response-systems-genee.blogspot.in/

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Genee Scope- The First of its Kind Ergonomic Designed Microscope for Classrooms of Today

Genee Scope is a ‘Sensible’ Microscope which can outsmart Traditional Microscopes in every way. Some of the excellent features which this 21st century Digital microscope carries are as follows:-

Extremely Portable and Interoperable
Portability is the best feature this Student Presentation Microscope carries. Because of its portability teachers can comfortably carry it from one classroom to another classroom. It’s easy to carry sleek structure along with its sturdy base turns it an easy to store gadget.

Immensely Interoperable
Genee Scope is a wondrous digital microscope which can be easily connected to Laptop, Computer and Interactive whiteboard using USB connectivity to visualize things invisible things. Things which are impossible to see with naked eyes like dust particles, microorganisms, Blood samples, water samples etc. can be easily seen with the help of Genee Scope.

Excellent Magnification range
Unlike traditional bulky cameras, Genee Scope consists of compact battery compartment, bright LED lighting, removable camera/ Magnification head with magnification range up to 100 times which makes it excellent for viewing specimens or slides and capturing its snap shots as well.

Best suited for visually impaired students
Genee Scope is intelligently designed to provide a clear view of smallest and tiniest particles to visually imparted students as well.

Ergonomic shape
Genee Scope is specially designed by keeping ease and comfort of students in mind. The Ergonomic shape and structure of this Digital Microscope is best suited for younger students. It’s easy to grip handle for up and down movement of lens gives them an easy focus.

Robust designing
Electronic Digital Microscope is robustly housed in a sturdy plastic case ensuring high durability and minimum cleaning requirements. Moreover, Genee Scope doesn’t have any moving parts as well which makes it a most preferred option within students and teachers of today.

USB connection
Last but not the least; it has USB connection to magnify, capture and modify the images.

Besides these superb features; Genee Scope is also environmental friendly, durable, carry no power issues and does rapid focusing instantly.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Genee Toolbar- An Innovative Piece of Interactive Software

Genee toolbar; a collection of user-friendly interactive teaching tools; designed to work alongside any software application and curriculum content.

It is vivaciously designed interactive software that works very effectively in conjunction with digital tablets, interactive whiteboards, visualisers and document cameras. The best part is that it allows instant and easy access to various captivating presentation tools.

Unlike other interactive software, Genee toolbar allows teachers to teach students with utmost ease and comfort. Some of the unique features which make it different from other interactive software are:-

Completely Interoperable: - Genee Toolbar is a key to make all ICT products interoperable as it works in conjunction with the interactive whiteboards, visualisers and graphic tablets.

Immense Compatibility: - Amazingly, Genee toolbar is highly compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Conveniently placed and useful tool: - Genee toolbar takes a cosy space at the bottom of your whiteboard screen making it all the more convenient to be use by students and Teachers. Its useful icons like keyboard, slideshow, eraser, clear screen, next, back, annotation, Image Capture, Video Capture, Spotlight and highlighter can be used very effectively during presentations and classroom sessions.

Instant data video recording: - Genee toolbar also carry an option to record the teaching data, videos, images or any relevant information which is getting projected on interactive whiteboards in compressed mode or non-compressed mode for video capturing tasks.

Easy recoding with numerous video formats: - The best part is that users can easily do the data recording in number of formats including AVI, MPEG, Mpg, Dat, Flv, DivX and Wmv.

What more anyone can ask for! It’s a wonder toolbar for teachers as it allows them to move backwards and forwards though slides, stop slide shows, annotate or highlight over data displayed on the board, reveal and spotlight item of interest.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Audience Response System- Smarter solution for effective assessment

Can we imagine a world without technology? Appears worst! In my opinion, technology is a driving force for everything. Without advancement in technology; everything becomes lifeless, boring and so deadly routine. Even if a ‘pinch’ of technology gets added into our mundane routines then it can surely bring a ‘spark’ into our lives.

Similar is the case with education system. Technology plays a vital role in taking education system to the next level. A level; where everything is influenced with digital accessories, Audio-visual elements and numerous other teaching tools. Today’s generation is blessed with technologically upgraded gizmos and gadgets. Students and learners of today have easy access to all kind of ICT and AV solutions including Audience Response Systems, Projectors, Interactive Whiteboards, Touch screens, document cameras, PC, Laptop and lots more.
Amongst these gadgets, Audience Response System is a tremendous teaching solution that has changes the whole face of education system.

What is an Audience Response System?
You must be wondering what an Audience Response System is? An Audience Response System is a battery operated or chargeable handset range by which a presenter asks questions from an audience and then they reply back through their personal handsets. The students' responses are then captured by response system software through the receiver and a report gets generated in the form of table, graph, pie chart etc. Eventually, these reports can be easily displayed on an interactive whiteboards, Touch screens, P.C or on any other projection surface for an audience to see.

Inside the classroom, an Audience Response System can be used by teacher to create new quizzes for students, to prepare mock tests, to introduce real-world scenarios, to identify the weak areas of students and to fetch out their responses and feedbacks.

Genee Response systems are market leading Audience Response Systems which consists of one main teacher handset, and a set of student handsets, one handset receiver and response system software. These are used for carrying out formative and summative assessment in a classroom or lecture room. In other words, it is a highly effective interactive response system that builds up a ‘Two Way Active Communication’ between students and a teacher.

This cutting-edge interactive response system allows yes/no, true/false, numeric and multiple choice answers. Moreover, it can be integrated with PowerPoint to create presentations.

Virtual G-pad is an advance version of Audience Response System which facilitates presenters and teachers to collect share and review real time data from their audience without the requirement of battery operated response systems or clickers. It is interactive response system that has replaced usage of handsets or clickers by an interactive graphic displayed on the screen of any PC, laptop or even handheld platforms (iOS) including iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Moreover, Virtual G- Pad enables students to give responses to questions asked without being physically present in the classroom.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Audience Response System

Technology today is making deep inroads into the field of education. ICT and AV resources are considered as practical and enabling solutions which are enhancing the quality of education in the whole world. One such ICT and AV resource which has contributed a lot in making the teaching and learning system more interesting is an Audience Response System.

An Audience Response System, which is also termed as Student Response System or Classroom Response System is a range of ICT (Information and communication technology), based educational assessment gadgets or handsets which are designed to build up an interactive and engaging learning environment in order to enhance student or learner participation.

With an interactive Audience response system, students can submit their replies against questions raised by Teacher in a class room. Students can answer in the form of as true or false, yes or no, numeric, text, multiple choices and sequence with these Student Response Systems. The response software installed on the computer accumulates all the responses collected from the Audience response system, to assess the individual student performance to ensure that they have understood the subject both theoretically as well as practically.

An Audience Response System is an incredible ICT resource for assisting ‘Student Centric Learning’. With an Audience Response System, Students or Learners can actively participate in polls, questions or surveys raised by teachers or presenters. Audience Response System help in eradicating cumbersome and time consuming paper evaluation, result tallying and answer checking methods, in turn saving a lot of time.

Genee’s Audience Response System range is highly interoperable, flexible and easy to use. These Classroom Response Systems works amazingly with the latest version of Genee’s ClassComm software which allows a teacher or presenter to create lesson plans quickly and easily, as it is compatible with PowerPoint. With these innovative Student Response Systems, teachers get a chance to gauge out an idea of students understanding with their respective feedbacks and on the similar lines, students also get appropriate feedbacks on their answers from the teacher, instantly.