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Advantages

Interactive whiteboard

More enjoyable than previous, conventional classes.

Easier understanding through images and sound.

elite Panaboard lets you project PC screen images onto the board. It also lets you operate the PC right from the board surface. Documents prepared with a PC can be displayed by the teacher at will for smooth, attractive lessons. Panaboard makes classroom lessons more appealing and interesting.

Students

Creates eye-catching lessons that students will enjoy.

Prepares attractive teaching materials more easily.

Teachers

Promotes the school to both students and their parents with the latest equipment and stimulating lessons.

Administrators

elite Panaboard Has Many Benefits

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Various screen sizes and built-in speakers enable high-impact lessonsThe large, dynamic screen and sound easily hold the students' attention.

Suppressed light reflection and a durable surfaceA special coating suppresses reflections and helps protect against impacts.

Convenient electronic pen with smooth operation and ergonomic designThe electronic pen fits snugly in the hand and offers easy, mouse-like operation.

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Convenient tools for classroom useA variety of software and other applications make it easier to create teaching and reference materials, and increase classroom enjoyment.

Easy driver and software set-up, and Install Free KitIt is easy to set-up and start using the elite Panaboard, even for teachers who are not familiar with PCs.

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Five Main elite Panaboard Features for Both Teachers and Students

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Fully Effective — From Preparation to Review

Preparation

Prepare the Lessonelite Panaboard book lets the teacher produce a wide range of teaching materials. It makes it easy to add illustrations, pictures and motion images to make learning more fun. Websites can also be bookmarked for instant retrieval.

Distribute and Review the Lesson After class, the teacher can save all of the images that appear on the elite Panaboard by using the Capture function, and then distribute the images to the students' PCs. The Recorder function records the operations performed on the elite Panaboard so that the teacher can review the lesson that was given in class.

Lesson

A Wealth of Software Functions for Effective Teaching

elite Panaboard bookGalleryShadeAttachments, etc.

elite Panaboard Software

Windows Shift DownMovie PlayerHandwriting RecognitionSpotlightMagnifierScreen ShadePowerPoint Slide ShowOn-Screen KeyboardDesktop Info CameraCaptureRecorderPrint, etc.

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Do the Lessonelite Panaboard software makes every lesson more interesting for students. It has a wide variety of tools to draw their attention, such as the Magnifier, Screen Shade and PowerPoint® Slide Show. It also makes it easy to connect external devices, such as a Desktop Info Camera, to expand the lesson content.

AfterLesson

elite Panaboard Promotes Active Learning(From an Actual Questionnaire)

Is the elite Panaboard easier to understand than conventional blackboards?

38%

28%31%

3%

Very easy to understand

Easy to understand

No difference

The blackboard is easier to understand

The blackboard is somewhat easier to understand

Are elite Panaboard lessons more enjoyable than ordinary lessons?

50%

27%20%

3%

Extremely enjoyable

Enjoyable

No difference

Not enjoyable at all

Not very enjoyable

0% 0%

Do you hope tohave more opportunities to use the elite Panaboard?

38% 49%

10%

3%

I very much hope soI hope so

Either is OK

I don’t hope so at all

I don’t really hope so

0%

Students understand lessons

more easily.

Students pay more attention to lessons.

Students want to use the electronic whiteboard more.

4*Results of a questionnaire answered by students who received a lesson using the interactive whiteboard.

elite Panaboard Enhances Learning Abilities (From an Actual Questionnaire)

Aim Evaluations Prior to Use Evaluations After Use

1) Interest, Motivation, Attitude Medium High

2) Ideas, Judgment Medium Medium

3) Skills, Expression Medium Medium

4) Knowledge, Comprehension Low High

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6th Grade — Math Class

＊ Results of a questionnaire answered by teachers who did lessons using the interactive whiteboard.

Aim Evaluations Prior to Use Evaluations After Use

1) Interest, Motivation, Attitude Medium High

2) Ideas, Judgment Low Medium

3) Skills, Expression Medium HighUPUP

2nd Grade — Social Studies

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Lesson Aims and Evaluations

Kawabe Elementary School (Japan)

elite Panaboard promotes active learning.

Lesson on proportions The elite Panaboard was used to show multiple graphs in order to help students recognize different types of graphs.

Changing the numerical value in a graph

Graph created using Excel

Instantaneous display of changes in the graph

Graph changes instantaneously.

One click

— Visual confirmation of graph changes —

Helps Students Focus on the Lesson

Mr. Matsumoto, Principal

"The elite Panaboard is easy to use, even for students. Since it lets the teacher write on it at any time,it helps the students to stay focused on the lesson. It is also very convenient when showing educational videos that are distributed over the Internet."

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Easy to operate

PC can be operated from the whiteboard

Allows writing andteaching at the same time

Students raised their hands!Every time the displayed graph was changed, students raised their hands. Since the display changed with a simple click of the Electronic Pen, students were able to recognize the change easily.

Enhances students' concentration

Using elite Panaboard (Case1)

Kawabe Elementary School

Subject : Mathematics

Scanner

i-podProjector

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System configuration

UB-T780

Using elite Panaboard (Case 2)

Elementary School, University of Tsukuba (Japan) elite Panaboard stimulates students' creativity

through visual and auditory teaching materials.

Lesson on figurative arts For a lesson on creating pictures with colored sand, the elite Panaboard was used to play a video prepared beforehand to show how to prepare tools and other materials.

- Using elite Panaboard in a graphic art class -

Promotes Student Creativity

Mr. Nishimura,Art Teacher

"By projecting students' artwork and other creative pieces on the elite Panaboard during class, I can encourage them to express their opinions more actively.The elite Panaboard promotes creativity, which is very important in school education. By fully utilizing the electronic whiteboard,I hope to further cultivate the ability of each and every student to think so they can examine how they should change themselves, express themselves and overcome difficulties."

Large board for effectiveinformation sharing

Allows writing on displayed images

Equipped with speakers to play sounds

Makes lessons more appealing to visual and

auditory perception

Digital camera

System configuration

Digital video camera

Projector

Elementary School, University of Tsukuba 　

Students' artwork was recorded with a video camera and shown on the elite Panaboard.

Art appreciation In a class in which students tried to feel "sound" from drawings, the speakers were used to play sounds that would stimulate the students' imagination.

Students wrote about the sounds they felt in order to share information.

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Subject : Art

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elite Panaboard UB-T781