Aquinas American School trusts Vitelsa for the installation of its digital classrooms

The Vitelsa Group, specialized in the design and implementation of advanced audiovisual technology solutions and services, has carried out the installation of digital classrooms in the Madrid educational center Aquinas American School, a coeducational private school that offers all educational stages from 3 years up to 2nd year of Baccalaureate.

Aquinas American School, a new private American school located in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), gives as much importance to the acquisition of knowledge as to the development of the student's intellectual abilities. To achieve this maximum development and facilitate the learning of different subjects, great importance has been given to equipping the center with the most advanced technologies applied to education., creating digital classrooms of the 21st century that have the ICT and audiovisual infrastructure and broadband Internet connectivity that will allow the opening of the classrooms to the Digital Universe, in parallel increasing the interactivity and participation of students in the educational process.

For this, The Aquinas American School has relied on the experience of Vitelsa in this field, having contracted the supply of different computer equipment and the turnkey installation and maintenance of a first phase of digital classrooms in Primary Education. This installation has been carried out outside the school period and in a very short time so as not to interfere with the daily activity of the center, thus facilitating the availability of these new educational resources from the beginning of the course 2012-2013.

The system installed in each of the classrooms is made up of the following technological elements:

• Resistive touch type interactive whiteboard that does not require special pointers and is compatible with most educational software on the market. This whiteboard allows students and teachers to interact more dynamically in any subject., increasing the level of attention of students.
• An advanced interactive whiteboard management software, that allows total control of the projected content from the teacher's laptop (web pages, presentations, spreadsheets), its digital capture for subsequent distribution of notes and the creation of own content, making classes more interactive and participatory.
• Specialized high-luminosity projector with short-distance optics for large-format projection of multimedia content with high quality and clarity.
• Self-amplified stereo speaker system to allow high-quality listening to multimedia content from the teacher's laptop.
• Integrated junction box (audio, video and data) It offers teachers a simple interface to connect their laptop and other multimedia devices (MP3 players, DVD’s) to the digital classroom system.

Finally, and to facilitate maximum use by the educational team of the new pedagogical possibilities that this advanced solution offers, Vitelsa has put at your disposal a web training platform that will allow you to become familiar in a simple and quick way with the management and extensive possibilities of the digital classroom..