Audiovisual Technologies is the world’s leading provider of flat-panel monitors, LCD displays, studios, A/V devices and applications that are gaining presence in current learning spaces as educators. These are increasingly rely on these technologies to reach and engage students.
Bill Thrisk, the vice president of information technology says, “It helps students to learn when some other instructional and retention methods leave off.” The complete proposition is somewhat difficult to ignore and acts as evidence by the growing volume of A/V equipment, tools and applications that are currently being used by the educational sector. Some A/V technologies that shows in more classrooms of 2012:
1. Interactive, touch screen video walls:
The days when students had to huddle over a single displays to get a perfect visual enrichment for a lesson. The schools are installing innovative video walls with multiple displays that are tiled together to form a single large screen. For example: Marist College installed a video wall or trading floor where students can view stock tickers to look company performance statistics and invest the real money from the college’s endowment fund. Thrisk says that the trading floor helps users to bring concepts to life for college students and enhances traditional lecturing A/V technology at the student’s fingertips.
2. Sharing “over the air” with Apple TV:
By installing streaming HD video equipment or wireless video sharing capabilities into a school at $ 10,000 cost per classroom. The small entertainment device plays content in up to 1080 HD and shows up in classrooms nationwide. William Rankin, the director of educational innovation for Abilene Christian University, Abilene says that they are installing Apple TVs in many classrooms. Using this Airplay technology which builds into the device’s operating system. An entire class that can share its Macbook screens wirelessly using projectors.
3. Adaptive A/V tools: The Audiovisual devices and other applications bridges the gap that is existed between traditional students and whose physical and learning disabilities prevents them from absorbing 100 % of a lecture. One of the newest A/V tools of Marist College combines a handled smart pen with a special paper pad which is used to capture both the written word and any accompanying audio.
It is manufactured by Livescribe, this pen let students to extract the full value from a lecture saying that it includes an increased quantity of math formulas and its problems. With the use of A/v technology, the teachers don’t have to adjust their instructional methods and students can go back to get a fully immersive experience by reproducing the lecture in real-time.
