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.

ICT technologies reaching out to classrooms in rural India!

Though computers came to classrooms of India more than 25 years back but still the level of acceptance of modern technologies in the teaching and learning process has always remained very limited. Schools and educational institutions of rural India are still untouched with the advancement in learning technologies.

Even today, most of the schools in rural areas possess only handful of basic teaching technologies like computers and not-so-advance Projectors. Teachers and educators still use age old blackboards and chalkboards to explain their teaching lessons to students. We can say that proper infrastructure and awareness, which are the two most important factors for the implementation of ICT programme, are lacking in educational sector of rural areas.

To cope up with these problems, Genee came up with complete budget-and-user friendly ICT solutions. Genee’s ICT Products are different from other brands simply because they are simple to use even by unprofessional, novice teachers and educators.

Genee Powerboard is one such smartly designed ICT product that utilizes infra-red (IR) technology and carries a NEW ceramic surface, making it perfect to be used like an ordinary whiteboard as well. The best thing is that it is completely interoperable ICT solution which integrates seamlessly with other ICT and AV solutions like Visualisers, Projectors, laptops, Audience Response systems, writing tablets and Computers.

Best of all, this wonderful ICT solution can be easily and instantly operated simply by touching with dummy pen or finger. Opening files, streaming videos, running animations, internet surfing, book reading or using online resources, everything is possible with just couple of touches on this state-of-the-art interactive whiteboard.

Genee View Projector is another ICT resource which carries a unique and NEW 3LCD reflective technology. This tremendous teaching aid carries interactive capabilities that can turn any flat surface into an interactive surface!  This ultimate ICT resource is portable and can be retrofit into existing projector installations making it perfect for rural schools and teaching institutes.

Genee View Short throw projector is an ICT solution which is perfectly designed to teach in smaller and tighter classrooms.  It is a smartly designed ICT product for creating big pictures from a shorter distance without the concerns about images getting obstructed with shadows or light shining onto the teacher’s face. This product certainly serves the purpose of classrooms where ample space remains a big constraint.

Likewise, we have numerous advance ICT technologies which can do best to our learning and teaching system in villages and rural areas. These  include Genee Slate- an aesthetically designed graphic tablet, NEW Virtual G-Pad- a unique response system app, Genee Future Class- a Comprehensive CBSE and NCERT based K-12 Content, Genee Sense- an Advance Interactive System, Touch Screens, Visualisers, Projectors and a lot more.

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.

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.