the advantages and benefits of elmo crs ( r)

The Advantages and Benefits of ELMO Classroom Solutions

(ELMO CRS)

1. ELMO CRS’ Features & Competitive Advantages■Teachers can implement ELMO CRS into their lesson plans

effortlessly without changing their current teaching style.(Teachers no need to change their teaching style to apply ELMO CRS. ELMO CRS assists and fits teachers’ teaching style)

■Everyone can use it well and easily.(Students can also use it well. Then, they will love to use it.)

■Japanese high‐quality and cost‐effective

■Can be intergraded flexibly according to teachers’ skills and learning environments.(High compatibility and easy to upgrade)

As a result, once the teachers and students have used ELMO CRS, they can not teach and learn without ELMO CRS, since the ELMO CRS has became their favorite tool in the classroom.ELMO CRS Products Concept “Use it , Love it”

2. ELMO CRS – to help teachers in the world

ELMO has been continuously striving to develop “convenient tools which teachers find effective to use

in every class, every day”,“products which combine usability and functionality,

as well as flexibility of the system” in collaboration with educational technology

researchers, educational consultants and teachers.

3. ELMO CRS – in JAPANSince 2007, we ELMO has been working on the academic‐industry partnership project, “Visualiser case study project”. Total 150 teachers participated in this truly hands‐on project and we have already collected over 30,000 case studies.

ELMO Visualiser have been and will continue to evolve and improve to be convenient and easy‐to‐use educational ICT equipment by reflecting feedbacks voiced by Japanese teachers who see things to details.

Up to August 2011, over 120,000 ELMO Visualisers are installed and used actively in Japan.

4. ELMO CRS – in UK

"I cannot imagine how I was teaching my classes without the ELMO"

Also in June 2009, BECTA※ stated that visualiser was the educational technology product for the next generation.※ British Educational Communications and Technology Agency

Collaborated with 11 local authorities in London, ELMO started the “Seeding Project” using 80 ELMO Visualisers in Jan 2008.

In 2009, we expanded the project nationwide by increasing the quantity to around 330pcs and enjoyed great success.

We have received positive feedbacks from teachers in UK who participated in the Seeding Project. Following testimonial compactly represents it all.

5. ELMO CRS – in USA

Visualisers have been already installed in over 1,000,000 classrooms (more than 50% of total classrooms in USA) as one of the most popular ICT equipment among teachers.

Over 450,000 of them are ELMO Visualisers !

In USA , teachers call visualiser as “ELMO” because they love ELMO Visualiser so much !

ELMO CRSThe Benefits of using ELMO

CRS in your Classroom

6 Benefits of ELMO CRS in education■ Saving Teachers’ Lesson Preparation TimeTeachers are always busy and with limited time to prepare the lesson. It is desirable for teachers to reduce the preparation time for a more efficient lesson conduction.

■ Capturing Students Attention EffortlesslyIt is important to make students become more engaged and focused during the class which help students to absorb and learn the lessons better.

■ Enhance Teachers’ and Students’ CreativityIncreasing the teachers’ and students’ creativity in the lesson is an useful way to help students thinking more independently as well as to help them develop new ideas from lesson.

■ Increase Students and Teachers InteractivityInteractive lessons give students opportunity to show their thinking, ideas to everyone in the class. Also, Teachers’ are more easily to know whether students well‐understand the lesson or not by conducting a collaborative lesson.

■ Easy to UseTo apply a convenient and easy to use instructional tool is crucial to save teachers effort and time of picking up the skill of utilising the tool. As a result, teachers are able to adopt it in their every day class more effortlessly.

■ ELMO CRS Global SupportThe supportive tool and activity providing are very vital for the teachers after the conduction of the instructional device which helps teachers to understand and utilise the device better.

Our TargetTo provide a more effective teaching and learning environment as well as to improve the students’ learning performance.

1. Save Teacher’s Lesson Preparation Time

With ELMO CRS, things around you become the best teaching materials in your lesson instantly

JapanElementary school/ year 4Mathematics

Easily to digitise anything in your class, teachers no need to take time download or prepare the content in advance

London , UKSheen Mount Primary SchoolYear 1

ELMO CRS ability to make things around you in the classroom become the good teaching materials which save teacher’s time of preparing the lesson.

Case Study Worldwide

In the year 4 Math class, the teacher used the ELMO visualiser to project the student’s protractor on the screen, and explained how to read it. With ELMO visualiser, teacher no need to prepare the big size protractor for teaching, but could easily enlarge any protractor of the students to make every one in the class to see it very well which helps teachers to save their preparation time for teaching materials.

In the Literature class, the ELMO visualiser was used by teachers to demonstrate how to structure a letter. The teacher can easily project and digitise the student’s handwriting letter in the class and check the spelling, layout in frontof the whole class. With ELMO CRS, teacher no need to download the letter sample or scanned the letter in advance which could reduce their lesson material preparation time.

1. Save Teacher’s Lesson Preparation Time

This teacher has created an animation by ELMO CRS to teach mandarin. She can use the same animation to teach other class without making another teaching material. This is one of ELMO CRS’ benefits to allow teachers to digitise materials (books, references, objects, newspaper…etc) and make it a part of lesson plan. Lesson plan can be used repeatedly and corrections can be made immediately and saved. Also, Audio can be done to illustrate story books, experimental instructions for the video recording.

Teachers don’t have to prepare material every time

Selangor, Malaysia STK (T) Aik Thee / Year 2

Making teaching materials by ELMO CRS as open educational sources which could be used repeatedly

Australia , SydneyUniversity of New South WalesDr. Chris Tisdell

Dr. Chris Tisdell is Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at UNSW. He is passionate aboutopenly accessible education materials. Dr. Tisdell is using ELMO CRS to create teaching videos and upload to YouTube EDU webpage. Making teaching videos is a very efficient way of saving teacher’s time since the videos can be used and viewed repeatedly.

ELMO CRS ability to digitise anything on computer or under the visualiser allows the teachers to create teaching materials effortlessly which could be used repeatedly.


2. Attract Students’ Attention Effortlessly

In the Math class, the student was trying to enlarge his fist to show the whole class how to count . In this way, other students can see the same object very clearly and follow the same instruction easily which attracted the students attention very well. With ELMO CRS, students are becoming more attentive and focused.

Selangor, Malaysia STK (T) Vageesar / Year 2

Enlarging small objects for whole class to see at the same time

Putrajaya, MalaysiaTarikh (Hari) / Year 4

Science experiment is conducted with ELMO CRS which allows students to follow instruction correctlyDuring Science lessons, many teaching materials can be enlarged. ELMO CRS can also be connected to microscope to show the whole class. The ELMO CRS is able to enlarge all these onto the screen and allow all the studentsto listen to the teacher’ instructions and follow them correctly which enhance the engagement of students to the lessons.

Microscope

ELMO CRS helps teachers to enlarge or highlight live images, text books, and anything in the class which could help teachers to capture the attention of students more easily.


Math class can be attractive to students with ELMO CRS

MongoliaASU Elementary school

The ELMO visualiser is used to project and magnify the process of creating an interactive 4‐D model of base‐ten counting systems. Students were extremely engaged due to that they can easily see every steps of the teacher’smovement and instructions. Students were also asked to make presentation for their teamwork and by ELMO visualiser which makes them be more focused during the class.

USAPrimary school

Annotating with ELMO tablet can engage studentsHave the ELMO wireless tablet connected to the ELMO visualiser helps teachers make annotation on the projected image. Teachers can make notes , draw on the screen, and label things at anywhere in the classroom, and the children can all see teachers’ movementeasily. Everybody can enjoy the learning at one time which really increase their learning engagement.

2. Attract Students’ Attention EffortlesslyTeachers can use ELMO CRS to make annotation and add explanation on the enlarged images at one time which really help to improve the learning engagement.


UK, EssexNoak Bridge Primary SchoolYear 5

Create teacher’s own teaching materials with ELMO CRS

The teacher was showing the parts of a plant by inserting labelled diagram in ELMO’s teaching material creation mode, and compared the diagram to a real flower. ELMO CRS sets the stage for creative teaching and focused learning by enabling the simultaneous display of visuals that stimulate student curiosity.

Kuala Lumpur,MalaysiaIPG Campus Bahasa AntarabangsaTeacher’s College

A simple character can be created into an appealing lessonThis is a Japanese class in a teacher’s college. The teacher was showing a character to teach how to pronounce Japanese hiragana correctly. The teacher used Wireless Tablet to draw different shape of mouths to help students to make the right pronunciation. The students can comprehend easily and have so much fun with ELMO CRS. Even Japanese Teachers have not thought of this idea! This is really creative from Dr.

3. Enhance Teachers’ and Students’ CreativityThe advanced functions of ELMO CRS IMA software provides teachers great possibility of creating their own lesson plans and producing their creative teaching materials.


UK,Trinity school,Somerset visualiser pilot 2010

ELMO CRS inspires students great creativity

USA,Carver Academic,Year 6

Enhance students creativity with ELMO CRS

Elaine Kimura of Carver Academy uses her ELMO CRS on a daily basis to aid in teaching new concepts or exploring unique ways of learning. The students can create distinctive animals, objects or creatures out of the shapes by using ELMO whiteboard mode.This process helps the students develop their artistic abilities and further enhances their creativity. This can lead to greater details in subjects such as Art, Math and Creative Writing.

3. Enhance Teachers’ and Students’ Creativity

The students at Trinity school, UK, created a stop‐motion animation made with ELMO CRS. Students were able to fully utilise their creativity in making the animation with ELMO. They made a Mummy video with ELMO CRS. The software of ELMO CRS allows teachers and students to create frame recording animationor time‐lapse video very easily. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8tY_xhRTRg

ELMO CRS gives the teachers freedom to include any 3‐D object into their lesson plans. With the easy‐to‐use functions of ELMO IMA software, students can create their own project easily as well.


ELMO CRS can be used from Anywhere in the classroom

4. Increase Interactivity Between Students and Teachers

ELMO Wireless tablet can be passed to students to annotate and collaborate from anywhere in the classroom . The students in the picture is writing the answer while his classmates are able to look at the screen all together. This method creates more interaction as everyone can see the same activity at the same time.

Selangor, MalaysiaSJK (C) Aik Thee/ Year 2

Teacher is mobile and can move around the classroom

Selangor, MalaysiaSJK(C) Aik Thee/ Year 2

Teachers don’t have to stand in front of the board , they can move freely in the room to engage the whole class with ELMO wireless tablet. As compared to being “Tied” to the Whiteboard, teachers roam around the classroom and can assist weaker students. As in this picture, the Chinese teacher is assisting the student while the whole class’s attention is captured. Thus learning what the teacher is teaching effectively.

ELMO CRS ability to control wirelessly which is an interactive teaching tool that can help the teacher to get responses from their students more easily.


Japan, TokyoItabashi 7th Primary schoolYear 4


Student Presentations with ELMO CRS

Teacher‐ Student presentation together with ELMO CRS

The teacher in Itabashi 7th Primary school, Japan, asked students to do research in advance and asked everyone go on the stage and made presentation. Thanks to the easy‐to‐use ELMO CRS, even students can easily operate ELMO CRS without any problem. The student stands on the stage was acting like teacher asking questions to the audiences (other students). ELMO CRS really created an interactive learning environment for students and teachers.

Noak Bridge Primary School, England, just starting to use ELMO CRS in their classrooms. The Science teacher loves to move around the classroom with ELMO wireless tablet to make presentation. When teachers ,students and ELMO CRS team up for a presentation, real interactive learning soars.

4. Increase Interactivity Between Students and TeachersELMO CRS ability to control wirelessly which is an interactive teaching tool that can help the teacher to get responses from their students more easily.


5. Easy to Use

In the math lesson of year 2, the teacher asked the students to estimate and count by using a drag and drop activity created with the wireless tablet and ELMO CRS software. The easy‐to‐use design of ELMO CRS, allows year 2 students to operate it without any problem.

Simple design, even students can master ELMO CRS


ELMO CRS is very easy to use . Our teacher can utilize it very well right after the in‐house training . After the simple installation, teachers can use it in each classroom effetely and instantly. Even students learn how to use it easily and demand their teachers to use it during the lesson.Ms. A.KarrKaney ,Principle of SJK (T)

Vageesar, Malaysia

Every teacher and students can use ELMO CRSvery well and easily

ELMO CRS is designed to be very user‐friendly allowing teachers to pick up the skill of usingit effortlessly.


6. ELMO CRS Global SupportELMO CRS has extensive experience of supporting educators around the globe. Our teachers’ oriented website shares vast amount of experience from educators around the world. ELMO also provide product trainings which allows the teachers worldwide to master ELMO CRS !

ELMO CRS Global website has case studies collecting from all over the world to share with the globalteachers community and it has been keep updating. Our Global website is available in 13 languages including Bahasa Melayu for Malaysia Teachers.

ELMO CRS has a dedicated Website for Teachers worldwide

Providing educators comprehensive training and product support of using ELMO CRS

ELMO provides onsite product training worldwide which helps teachers to pick up the skill of utilizing ELMO CRS more efficiently. Besides, ELMO also provides the supporting materials to help improve the educators teaching ability with ELMO CRS.

ELMO CRSFeature

References

Enlarge Feature: 1

Language Lesson

Students are able to see which part of the text book the lecturer is talking about clearly thus understand completely.

Enlarge Feature: 2

Science Lesson

Students can follow teacher’s instruction and concentrate on the experiment.

Enlarge Feature: 3Music Score Name of the Train on Ringgit

Any part of a text book or material canbe enlarged and shared with everyone in the class for clearer understanding.

Enlarge Feature: 4

Math Lesson

Students can share real‐time observation with classmates through self‐style presentations that engage everyone in the classroom.

Annotate Feature: 1

Language Lesson

Teachers can annotate wirelessly and movefreely around the classroom to focus students’ attentionand bring interactive learning.

Annotate Feature: 2

Language Lesson

Teachers can pass the tablet to have students to answer the questionsfor creating a creative learning.

Annotate Feature: 3

Show Live Image

Teachers can annotate on live images to deliver more retailed instructions and achieve greater students’ achievement.

Split Feature

Compare the difference

Teachers can compare different objects or textsto allow students to comprehend more clearly.

Highlight Feature

Emphasize the important part

By highlighting the important part, students can follow the right direction with the teacher and understand the instructions.

Mask /Scroll Feature

Mask to interact the entire classScroll to enlarge and move up, down, left and right

Teachers can ultilse those 2 features to emphasize the points and stimulate students’ attention

Animation Feature

Language Lesson

Animation can be created and save on a PC to be used to create original teaching materials.

Record Feature

Science experiment

Teachers can record video with audio, time‐lapse photography,and still images saved on a PC can all be used to create high‐impact teaching materials. Recorded materials can be annotated by teachers to make clear instructions.

Stamp Feature

Insert stamps to add creativity to the lesson

Teachers can insert and create own stamps to add style and impact to their teaching

Background Select Feature

Choice of backgrounds can help teachers save time in preparation

Other Whiteboard Features

Write English Letter

Axis

Music Score

Whiteboard functions are not only the tools for creating original style but also helping teachers instantly liven up their Teaching material.

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