New Products & Services
Panasonic offers
easy-to-use tools to help teachers and students P
anasonic introduced the UB-T580 Panaboard series at BETT2012. This touch sensitive whiteboard is designed to simplify teachers and pupil‘s experience and increase access to interactive and touch sensitive technologies at school.
Powered by a USB cable connection with the teacher’s PC, UB-T580 Panaboard is easy to operate with a finger or a stylus pen to write on its highly durable surface. Using Windows 7 allows greater control over the images on screen with pictures being easily manipulated by the touch of a finger or enlarged by stretching and pinching.
UB-T580 comes with Easiteach education application for creating and editing teaching materials. It includes more than 4800 resources, text to speech capabilities, multilingual handwriting recognition, a cloze tool for creating activities that contain sentences with missing words and tools for resizing of objects and shapes.
The Easiteach 1.3 version delivered with UB-T580 contains an improved start screen with option to download content, animations that allow an object to follow a line, rotate, vibrate or bounce on the screen, the ability to add hyperlinks to text objects and import PowerPoint files into Easiteach. Panasonic has chosen to distribute RM Easirespond, a classroom response system that enables teachers to create engaging learning experiences for their students. Designed for whole class teaching, it allows users to create a range of bespoke multiple choice question and answer style activities using video, animation, imagery and audio to bring questions to life. Easirespond is built with nine easy to use templates; a wide range of ready-made activities available are designed to help teachers successfully match objectives within key subject areas. A demo video of Panasonic's new UB-T580 IWB can be seen here
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Steljes announces partnership with University of Dundee
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teljes – the innovative technology distributor – is committed to sourcing technologies that encourage new approaches to improve learning outcomes. Recently Steljes signed a two year agreement with the University of Dundee to provide interactive technologies and training support to its School of Education, Social Work and Community Education. At each level of its Bachelor of Education course, students will be taught how to use the latest SMART technologies in the university's dedicated training room. Yolande Muschamp, Dean of the School of Education, Social Work and Community Education says “Our agreement with Steljes will allow us to strengthen our position as one of Scotland’s leading providers of education. With the growing emphasis from the government on improving the quality of teacher training, I believe that our model will be seen as one of best practice and will enhance teaching practice in schools.”
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www.education-today.co.uk February 2012
Yorkon awarded off-site construction contract
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orkon has been awarded a sub- contract package to provide a two-storey modular classroom building for Ninestiles School – a new high achieving academy in Birmingham.
This challenging project which is being completed by Thomas Vale Construction has to be delivered in a tight timescale in order to meet funding requirements and will be built in a completely enclosed courtyard in the centre of the school. Yorkon’s sub-contract will involve the use of a large 350-tonne crane to lift the steel-framed modules over the existing school and into the
courtyard. The overall scheme will accommodate six classrooms to help the school meet the increased demand for places and to replace an outdated facility.
Design features will include brick cladding to the ground floor with a contrasting white finish to the upper floor; windows, doors and aluminium cladding panels in anthracite grey; canopies above each set of entrance doors; a full height glazed stairwell and a glazed link corridor to the main school building.
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