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Archive for Visualisers
May 29, 2008 at 10:32 am · Filed under Visualisers
Extract from Ewan McIntosh’s blog – add your best use for a visualiser and let’s try and bring that visualiser home to a Havering school!
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/05/how-would-you-u.html
“…And the best suggestion on how to use it over the next week will get one. On my continuing posts from last week’s adventures, I must let you know about something I won.
I never win anything, so I was quite excited to win one of the new generation of visualisers at the TeachMeetcharity raffle, courtesy of the Visualiser Forum, represented by Dave Smith. You know, the ones you see in lecture halls and being used by Edward de Bono during his talks.
Basically, though, it’s sitting in London, waiting for a home with someone who would use it far more frequently and far better than I would. I want to give it away. To know who would use it best, I’d like to open up the opportunity to my blog reading colleagues in the UK (simply for ease of getting hold of the thing) to write a quick comment on this post telling me how on earth you would put this visualiser to use in your context. Feel free to email the blog post address to colleagues and put in a group effort, on several different comments. The best one – for me – wins.
If you want some ideas you might want to check out the new Visualiser Forum blog, a community blog pulling together ideas from kinds of disciplines and levels. Currently, the large pristine box is sitting in an office just off London’s Central Line and, ideally, you would be able to pick it up from there. In the meantime, tell me what you would do with this.”
For the Redbridge view on visualisers click on http://redbridgeprimaryit.blogspot.com/2008/05/visualers-get-them-out-of-closet-or.html
May 20, 2008 at 10:15 pm · Filed under Visualisers
The Visualiser Forum has been formed to promote the effective use of visualisers in education. Why not join-up to The Visualiser Forum and find out ways in which visualisers can help have impact on pupil/student standards.
Visit the blog here…
http://visualiserforum.blogspot.com/
Join The Visualiser Forum Facebook group at…
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14796781249
April 25, 2008 at 1:10 pm · Filed under Early Years’ ICT, Interactive Whiteboards and Wireless Slates, Visualisers
The Havering Early Years’ ICT Project designed to develop effective use of ICT in the Foundation Stage is certainly gathering pace. Practitioners from across schools and private, voluntary and independent settings are participating in the project. They are examining the positive impact that ICT is having on Foundation Stage children.
The project is focussing on role-play equipment, a variety of software, visualisers, tablet PCs, digital cameras, animation, digital stills cameras, programmable toys, talking tins etc…
Visit the blog to find out more…
http://eyict.edublogs.org/
Carole Jacques – HIAS Early Years’ Advisor and Dave Smith – HIAS ICT Consultant
April 16, 2008 at 2:26 pm · Filed under Visualisers
As part of a project to continue to develop the effective use of visualisers in the primary classroom, Elmo are offering 5 visualisers on a sale-or-return basis. The RRP is £650 and they are offering them for £300 to the 5 schools who would like to be a testbed during the Summer Term 2008.
The visualisers will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.
What does the project involve?
- A demonstration of the technical capabilities of the visualiser
- Exploration of ideas for the effective implementation of visualisers in the primary classroom and to support assemblies
- Sharing of outcomes to further enhance and promote the use of visualisers in education
What will you be expected to do?
- Attend 2 meetings: one to see the visualiser in action and one to feedback outcomes
- Demonstrate effective use of the visualiser in the primary classroom
- Provide feedback on the effective use of visualisers in the primary classroom – possibly to be used in a Elmo case-study
Sharing outcomes
The project will be run by Elmo in association with the HIAS ICT Team and the feedback will be shared via the ICT in Havering Blog and Primary ICT meetings. The focus is on developing effective use of visualisers.
If you are interested please contact dsmith.havering@lgfl.net
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Dave Smith
HIAS ICT Consultant
November 30, 2007 at 12:50 am · Filed under Visualisers
Microlink PC (HIAS Approved ICT Suppliers) have a number of Samsung visualisers for trial by Havering Schools for a 4 week period at a time. The company will set-up the visualiser in a classroom and provide a free demo of how the visualiser works. There is no compulsion to buy, just a chance to try one in your setting and to see the fantastic benefits of the visualiser to support learning and teaching.
If you are interested please contact Dave Smith – dsmith.havering@lgfl.net or telephone 01708-433813.
October 3, 2007 at 2:40 pm · Filed under Visualisers
http://www.ictvisualiser.co.uk/education_resources/lessonplans.html
Click on the link above to explore lesson ideas to make effective use of your visualiser…
October 3, 2007 at 2:38 pm · Filed under Visualisers
“As a teacher I find the visualiser to be a tremendously useful tool” Chris Botha, Classteacher – Dame Tipping CE School
Mr. Chris Botha is an infant teacher at Dame Tipping CE Primary School. He heard of the AVerMedia Visualiser through ‘the London Borough of Havering Inspection and Advisory Service and thought he would try one out. He set up his visualiser so that it could either be used as a camera for live demonstrations, or with his interactive whiteboard, to take full advantage of the software capabilities provided by the visualiser software.
The visualiser has now become a permanent fixture in Mr. Botha’s classroom. He uses it everyday to teach lessons for Numeracy, Literacy, History, Design and Technology and Science. It’s used for instructing students on how to complete a worksheet. It is also used to display 3D objects for discussion (i.e., coins, artefacts, student work). It has even become useful for displaying science experiments for the entire classroom to see from their seats.
“As a teacher I find the visualiser to be a tremendously useful tool,” says Mr. Botha, “and its ability to easily interface with my PC is particularly attractive.”
When we asked Mr. Botha why he loved his visualiser he said, “The main advantages I have seen over similar technology are its ease of use, the accuracy of its auto settings and its ability to project a real camera image over an old OHP outline on to my interactive whiteboard.”
October 3, 2007 at 1:57 pm · Filed under Visualisers
Another video from The Havering Visualisers’ Project – featuring teachers from Engayne Primary School and Guy Underwood, Senior Advisor for ICT from Barking and Dagenham Local Authority
September 26, 2007 at 4:12 pm · Filed under Visualisers
http://haveringict.edublogs.org/wp-admin/upload.php?action=edit&ID=6
In Havering, we have been working to develop the use of visualisers in our primary schools. Above is a recently-created video extolling the virtues of visualisers from the point of view of teachers and pupils at Dame Tipping CE Primary School and Gidea Park Primary School.
If you haven’t seen a visualiser in action then watch the video above and find out more…
Dave Smith – ICT Consultant
Havering Inspection and Advisory Service
