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technology
Study up close
It is now five years since Warren Junior School was
chosen, as one of nine schools in the London Borough of
Barking and Dagenham, to participate in a Government
backed £27m ICT Test Bed project to use technology to help
raise teaching standards.
F
or the School, this meant the Freeze an image
opportunity to invest £900,000 in “The ability to freeze an image or to
equipping its 16 classrooms and compare images side by side is also
other teaching areas with the latest extremely valuable as is the ability to
technology including laptops and plasma project a negative image. This can
screens. Not all the equipment had to be sometimes work really well with children
purchased as the initiative was supported with disabilities such as dyslexia as well
by various manufacturers. Among the as children who suffer from epilepsy, as
equipment donated were two Samsung projecting from white pieces of paper can
Techwin Visualisers. sometimes bring on an attack.
Today, every classroom at the school “As well as the classrooms, we also
now has a Visualiser which are an integral have a Visualiser in our Junior Hall where
part of virtually every lesson, according to during assembly children have the
headteacher, Gary Wilder. “The Visualisers opportunity to share good pieces of work.
act as the hub for all our other ICT based Quite often on a Friday we have a ‘Bring
equipment, including our PCs, writing and Share’ session. Children may bring in
slates and digital overhead projectors.” small intricate or delicate objects which
Unlike many schools, Warren Junior School they may not necessarily want to pass
does not have an electronic Whiteboard. around. The Visualiser allows all of the
“With digital overhead projectors linked to children to see a detailed close up view
computers and Visualisers in every of the object using the Visualiser’s
classroom, we simply did not need zoom function.”
Whiteboards,” explains head of The Visualisers donated by Samsung
ICT Mark Jobin. “Visualisers Techwin were the SDP-950. This model is
allow a teacher to take a still part of the Digital Presenter range
child’s piece of work but more technically advanced models
and instantly share it have since been introduced. These include
in 3D with the whole the 16:9 HD format UF-130DX which has a
class. I use mine on a built-in AMD processor and an on-board
daily basis and in Windows CE operating system. Also
virtually every lesson. recently launched is the high resolution
It is at its best in SDP-850DX which, with 42x zoom
science lessons when capability and a 1/3” progressive scan
looking, for example, at CCD camera sensor, is able to generate
mini beasts as you can XGA quality 850,000 pixel images, making
zoom in very closely, but it it well suited for classroom applications.
can also be used as a
teaching aid for almost every
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possible subject.
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