The British School Muscat, Oman
Students respond positively to demonstrations conducted with the visualizer
"Teachers can be pretty conservative about new things, especially when it comes
to ICT equipment. However, this wasn’t the case with the AVerVision 300AF
Visualizer.”
- John Parsons, Primary ICT Specialist and Subject Coordinator, The British School
Muscat
John Parsons, the primary
school’s ICT specialist and subject coordinator, trialed the
visualizer (document camera)
in several different scenarios – displaying enlarged copies of prepared worksheets
to children, presenting new equipment during staff training sessions, and demonstrating
how to program a floor robot.
“I used the AVerVision 300AF
visualizer (document camera)
with the Bee-Bot; a great educational tool for the classroom. However, focusing
the students’ attention on how to use it could have been a slight challenge.
Luckily, with my AVerVision visualizer
(document camera), I was
easily able to demonstrate how to use it on a large screen to my whole class. This
way my students spent less time trying to figure out what to do and more time doing.
When the students had completed their programming, we used the
visualizer (document camera)
to see how each group did. The most important thing is that all my students could
see what was going on at the same time, so no one was lost during class. Using an
AVerVision visualizer (document camera) in the
classroom with great educational tools works hand in hand,” said Mr. Parsons.
Visualizers Have 101 Uses
Sue, the primary literacy coordinator for the school, trialed the
visualizer (document camera)
to show the children the inside workings of a light bulb. This was a great way to
help them understand how an electrical element works. She also used it during literacy
exercises to follow text that contained fantastic artwork and captions as well as
to show samples of the students’ own writing. For numeracy, Sue used the visualizer (document
camera) to model some of the concepts the class was covering in regard
to reflective symmetry. And with art, she used the
visualizer (document camera) to
help model a painting technique.