The Salesians of Horta, example of pedagogical innovation with AV technology

More than twenty interactive monitors of Traulux, a videoconferencing 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 the new times and maintain a close relationship with your students, the College the Salesians of Horta (Barcelona) has included in its classrooms more than twenty interactive monitors Traulux of 86″, a videoconferencing bar Poly Studio and a mini computer Chromebox. All this equipment has been supplied by Charmex and its technology partner Vistalegre Solutions.

The Salesians of Horta, which first opened its doors in 1940, it currently hosts four training stages: childish, primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate. As part of its educational innovation process, its managers 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 that reason it was decided to make an investment in videoconferencing equipment and interactive monitors and adapt the dream of our founder, St. John Bosco, to the twenty-first century", Explain.

For remote or blended classes, the Poly Studio USB videoconferencing camera provides "a first-class sound capture, no need to use personal flap-like microphones, with the comfort that this represents - they affirm from this institution -. Perfectly collects the teacher's voice at about 4-5 meters, in addition to eliminating background noises".

In addition, this system includes automatic tracking technology, who is able to maintain the frame of the teacher even if he moves around the classroom. "The speakers guarantee us to listen to the students who are from home", Add.

For its part, "Traulux interactive monitors are a great tool, both in blended or remote classes and in face-to-face classes", Underline. The more than twenty 86" computers that have been installed offer 4K resolution, great angle of view and brightness "and allow us to develop the 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, resize them, duplicate them or move the entire whiteboard. In addition, we can easily import images or croppings to support us", point 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 the class any material available on the networks".

All this material can be saved, to follow the class the next day at the same point, on a USB, in internal memory or in the cloud. “For the most dynamic classes we even connect the students' devices wirelessly to share their work with the rest of the class", add those responsible for the Salesians of Horta

As part of its innovation process, also added a compact chromebox mini computer, based on an Intel Celeron processor 5205 you and 4 GB of RAM, especially suitable for use with interactive monitors and access the Google Workspace for Education ecosystem.

In this sense, from the school indicate that “some kinds, whether face-to-face or remote, we develop them on our Google Account, and for this we connect the camera and the interactive monitor to the chromebox mini computer, and we instantly generate a video call and with Meet, so that the student can collaborate from home with the blackboard Jam Board. Everything we manage from our Google Classroom".

The ChromeBox device (gms certified) "It gives us the possibility to access the Play Store and use educational applications that allow us to make the classes more cooperative and thus we can apply necessary methodologies for the process of pedagogical innovation that we are carrying out", Conclude.