Cunningham Hill Infants School – Visualisers Case Study

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Hill Infants School



Cunningham Hill Infants School – Visualisers Case Study

CunninghamHillInfantsSchool – Visualisers Case Study

The GeneeVision 6100 visualiser is a new resource for our school. It links with the Smartboard and accompanying laptop, although we are also planning to use it around school in the future.

It looks and acts like a digital overhead projector – displaying images of 2d and 3d objects onto the screen as a crystal clear image. This image can then be adapted in a variety of ways, including a zoom in and out feature, a negative-style image and the ability to freeze a split screen for comparing.

These are just the immediate images that can be used – we have to investigate the many other possibilities as we learn together!

We were introduced to the Visualiser by Chris Carter (e-Developments Adviser, Hertfordshire) and were impressed enough to make an appointment for a full demonstration. The demo made a good impression – staff were keen to suggest thoughts and ideas about how this new technology could be successfully integrated into their teaching.

We began the new Autumn Term with plenty of enthusiasm for our new resource and were keen to introduce it to Year 2. This was where the WOW factor came in. All the children were very enthusiastic and wanted to try all sorts of ideas on the visualiser. Fortunately, we have a large and varied selection of interesting materials available to the children and they were keen to look closely at most of them – zooming and out – and trying the split screen option for many. Crystals, feathers, coral, cuddly toys, their own hands, the opportunities were endless!

Whilst we had plenty of ideas, the next step was to discuss with the children how they thought this new resource could help them with their learning. The most popular suggestion amongst them related to the work we had begun based on fruit and it was decided that it would be a useful resource for observational artwork (a strong part of the curriculum throughout the school). And so it was…. the children worked in groups developing their observational drawing skills working from a large crystal clear image, using soft pencils to sketch and watercolour pencils to continue adding detail. Here are just a few examples of the artwork produced as a result …..pomegranate… kiwi….pepper…. orange.

And this is just the beginning…..Helen Knight, Cunningham Hill Infants

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Hill Infants School