The Salesians of Horta, example of pedagogical innovation with AV technology
More than twenty interactive monitors Traulux, a video conferencing bar Poly Studio and a Chromebox mini computer are part of the educational innovation process of the Salesians of Horta.
In order to adapt to new times and maintain close contact with their students, he Salesians of Horta School (Barcelona) has included more than twenty interactive monitors in its classrooms Traulux of 86″, a video conferencing bar Poly Studio and a mini computer Chromebox. All this equipment has been supplied by Charmex and your technological partner Vistalegre Solutions.
The Salesians of Horta, which first opened its doors in 1940, currently hosts four training stages: Children's, Primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate. As part of its educational innovation process, Those responsible have adapted their classrooms with this audiovisual technology.
“From our educational community we were very clear that an institution like the Salesians had to face the new challenges with guarantees.. For this reason, it was decided to make an investment in videoconferencing equipment and interactive monitors and adapt the dream of our founder., Saint John Bosco, to the 21st century”, they explain.
For remote or blended classes, The Poly Studio USB videoconferencing camera provides “first-class sound capture, without the need to use personal lapel microphones, with the comfort that this represents - they affirm from this institution -. Perfectly picks up the teacher's voice at about 4-5 meters, in addition to eliminating background noises”.
Besides, This system includes automatic tracking technology, that is capable of maintaining the teacher's frame even when moving around the classroom. “The speakers guarantee we can hear the students who are from home”, they add.
For your part, “Traulux interactive monitors are a great tool, both in blended or remote classes and in person”, they underline. The more than twenty 86” computers that have been installed offer 4K resolution, great viewing angle and brightness “and allow us to carry out classes in broad daylight and without shadows”.
For face-to-face classes “we use the infinite whiteboard app, With simple gestures we can move the annotations, change their size, duplicate them or move the entire board. Besides, “You can easily import images or clippings that serve as support”, they point out from this school.
Monitors are also used to prepare PDF material, Powerpoint, Word, Excel or even use videos (up to 4K), and also access the Internet to include in class any material available on the networks”.
All this material can be saved, to continue the class the next day at the same point, in one USB, in internal memory or in the cloud. “For more dynamic classes we even connect students' devices wirelessly to share their work with the rest of the class.”, add those responsible for the Salesians of Horta
As part of your innovation process, A compact Chromebox mini computer has also been added, equipped with an Intel Celeron processor 5205 U y 4 GB of RAM, especially suitable for use with interactive displays and access to the Google Workspace for Education ecosystem.
In this sense, from the school they indicate that “some classes, whether in person or remote, we develop them on our Google account, and to do this we connect the camera and the interactive monitor to the ChromeBox mini computer, and we instantly generate a video call with Meet, so that the student can collaborate from home with the blackboard Jam Board. We manage everything from our Google Classroom”.
The ChromeBox device (that has GMS certification) “it gives us the possibility of accessing the Play Store and using educational applications that allow us to make classes more cooperative and thus we can apply necessary methodologies for the pedagogical innovation process that we are carrying out”, they conclude.
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