There was time when teachers used the black board to teach. Digital took over, and digital White boards came into use. One major problem remained though - the teacher still couldn’t face the students while teaching. Wacom,the world leaders in pen technology, revolutionized the way world teaches by introducing its pen based displays.
Today the top institutes depend on Wacom solutions. The very popular Wacom DTU series of pen displays combines the advantages of an LCD monitor with the control, comfort, and productivity of Wacom's patented cordless, battery-free pen technology.By using a pen on screen, the teachers can work more quickly and naturally, while facing the students.The pen provides precise cursor control in any software application, including applications developed for special uses. The teachers can markup study material digital documents directly, annotate over images and ultimately conduct an interactive presentation for teaching and involving the students.
The pen displays now also come with new digital-inking capabilities in Windows Vista and such leading office applications as Word®, PowerPoint®, and Acrobat.
“Wacom has definitely enhanced the teaching ecosystem with its pen display range that comes in 22, 16 and the newly introduced 10 inch screen size. These displays are at the center of any education related IT hardware solutions that we pitch to our customers. Compared to other offerings available in the market, Wacom pen displays are the most preferred due to their ease of usage. A teacher simply uses the Wacom battery free pen to write on the display conveniently located on his desk, while he sits and interacts with the students” says Mr. A. Mohammed Haris of Sha Technologies, a Wacom partner in Chennai.
These displays are accompanied by a pen with 512 pen pressure levels, that makes teacher adopt to this digital medium effortlessly, as it gives him same feeling as teaching using pen and paper.
"The pen-on-screen experience delivers a natural, accurate workflow with little or no learning curve. The pen's intuitive use delivers more control than a traditional mouse." says Professor Chaturvedi who has been using Wacom’s DTU pen displays for over 2 years now.
Ideally, with a Wacom pen display connected to a projector, teachers can face the audience while annotating directly on the screen, this makes the entire session more interesting and interactive.
Currently in the education vertical the Wacom solutions are being used for a wide range of applications ranging from classrooms to distant learning studios and also digital content creation.
“In the past 2 years we have realized that the customer is willing to accept a digital solution and this is especially true for education institutes and distance learning departments therein. The management of such institutes closely evaluates all the available technologies. Thanks to the unique offering from Wacom and robustness of their technology, almost every institute where we pitch their solution openly accepts them.” adds Nitin Agarwal, Trifin Technologies, Delhi.
Top institutes such as many IIT’s, IIM’s, IMT’s, NMIMS, Pune University, VIT, MIT etc are using Wacom solution for classroom teaching and distance education studios.
“With a Wacom interactive pen display installed at the teaching desk, connected to a LCD Projector and laptop, lecturers can annotate, sketch, highlight or save importantpoints - directly by writing on the product screen while facing their audience, thus allowing more interaction during classes.” says MrKanchan Chatterjee CICIKO Office Machines Pvt Ltd, a Kolkata based partner of Wacom.
Some institutes have gone a step ahead and put these pen displays for student use as well. This has made the classroom teaching 100% interactive and at the same time immensely participative.
“We are a Japanese company to the core, and all our products speak of it. Our R&D continuously strives for putting forth the best technology to our customers. Our products make teaching much more a fun profession by increasing the interaction between the teachers and students. This is the reason that the top institutes have embraced Wacom solutions and technology” says Mr. Manu Nanda, Managing Director of Wacom India.
For further information partners and customers can contact Wacom at : sales@wacom.co.in or call toll free : 1800-102-2771.
