Improve how you teach, work and learn with Swivl

Wow! 

Swivl takes education and training to bold, new places

What if . . . a talented English teacher could read Romeo and Juliet with her authentic Shakespearean accent and share her performance with 10^th graders throughout your school district?

What if . . .  a college professor could easily make a video selfie while demonstrating his Nobel prize-winning experiment and stream it to college physics classes across the country?

What if . . . your best salesperson could demonstrate to peers exactly how to close a deal by catching himself in action on video while making the biggest sale of a lifetime?

All it takes to turn scenarios like these into realty is a tiny rotating screen with a base smaller than a boom box. Introduced just this year, the newest version of Swivl promises to enrich education and training in ways never-before conceived.

Swivl is a front-of-room video solution that does its own recording work while focusing on its subjects. It’s a video-making machine that follows teachers through lessons and college professors through lectures. The basic model of the Swivl robot for North America pans 360 degrees continuously, covering images and sounds throughout an entire training room or classroom.

Swivl can be used by business and industry leaders, civic or government figures to cover hearings, decision-making sessions, conferences or committee meetings. Once Swivl captures the action on video, it can be shared with others(Swivl Cloud). It makes training new employers to do the job as easy as recording departing staff members while they work.

Swivl can record any event effortlessly. Educators, speakers or program directors don’t have to be experts to video themselves live. Since Swivl is a mobile device, it’s as simple to use as a cell phone. Swivl's simplicity makes it very user friendly. It truly makes Swivl the ideal tech tool to keep in classrooms, board rooms and training rooms.

Swivl videos can be used by teachers to enhance education by:

• Swivling their own classroom presentations to improve course content and delivery
• Posting lessons on YouTube and other sites to be saved by students for review
• Blending topics to tap into each other’s strengths, then used in individual classrooms
• Leaving critical content for substitute teachers to use when they’re absent
• Flipping classes

School administrators and other supervisors can accomplish more by:

• Asking employees to record their performance in real time to be evaluated carefully later
• Filming clips of special projects and special events to show off their organization with web site videos

With Swivl, educators and corporate trainers will be able to connect better with today’s digital learners who are tuned into tablets, smart phones and multiple sites. Swivl videos can be kept in-house or shared with other professionals online.

Businesses and other organizations will benefit from Swivl with:

·     Video orientation sessions ready to use each time someone new joins the organization

· Presentations recorded by the best in the field available to new salespeople to describe products and services

· Technical demonstrations to take on the road to conventions and trade shows

· Improved engagement and team-building despite distances between corporate locations

· Time barriers broken in addressing employees across the country or around the world

Business leaders can literally be in two places at once by distributing video-taped annual reports or important updates to any city, state or country in the world where their company is located.

Aim Up, West Michigan’s premiere provider of high-tech education and training tools, has strategically partnered with Swivl to provide on site support, training, volume discounts, etc. Aim Up has been providing FREE on site demo's on request from schools, colleges and business enterprises. To schedule a Swivl demonstration, call Aim Up at 616-347-6300 or email: service@aimupimage.com/sales@aimupimage.com 

Visit Aim Up’s web site at www.aimupimage.com   Article written by Susan K Maciak.  For permission to reprint or quote from this article: Contact Maciak at service@aimupimage.com

School leaders, CEOs must insist on legal and appropriate use of technology by students, staff and everyone else

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School leaders, CEOs must insist on legal and appropriate use of technology by students, staff and everyone else

 

You know the story.                                

You hear it every day.                       

The message may be printed in your policy book, preached on opening day, or placed on the agenda of every meeting, but it still happens:

·       Teachers being fired for berating their students on Facebook.

·       Teens are charged with breaking the law for posting threats, nasty rumors or nude photos using social media.

·       An employee makes national headlines for emailing obscene pictures to women from his computer at work.

·       Someone is sued for slander for passing on untrue information through the Internet.

The Internet is a wonderful resource for teaching, learning and marketing your schools or your business, but it must be used responsibly. School leaders, CEOs and small business owners can all be held accountable for what goes online from the workplace.

If the law doesn’t catch up with them, their corporate image still suffers each time someone at their site goes outside acceptable practice of safe and sensible Internet use. Schools, companies and other agencies need to set standards to ensure that everyone follows the rules. Sometimes written guidelines aren’t enough. Ironically, one sure-fire way to keep Internet users in line is through the computer.

“Even those who are tech-savvy are often unaware of the consequences of online violations,” says Aim Up owner Carlos Valladares, area representative for Promethean products and CIW-ICT Program.

Aim Up is proud to now offer the CIW-ICT program, a new and innovative program created by Certification Partners that focuses on Information and Communication Technologies, their fundamentals, and their appropriate use. Though the entire suite of 10 courses is designed to raise digital literacy in a broad range of technologies, several courses within the suite focus directly on the appropriate and legal use of Internet services and in particular, social media.

CIW-ICT comes with valuable tips and online resources for helping computer users take full advantage of the resources available on the Internet, but do so safely, legally, and confidently. Materials provided for each course are intended to be used by teachers (regardless of their subject area) to infuse technology into their courses as an engaging learning tool. This integration of technology into student learning begins as early as Grade 3 and continues through Grade 12 and beyond, even into business and industry. Courses within the suite can be integrated across elementary and middle school curricula district-wide to ensure an acceptable level of digital citizenry prior to moving into high school.

Aim Up helps groups get special pricing, provides local support and helps schools and other organizations implement the project throughout their districts or worksites. Courses are delivered through the web on any device that is web-browsing enabled.

Article by Susan K Maciak
Business Consultant and Author

For permission to reprint or quote from this article:

Contact Maciak at Aim Up: www.aimupimage.com

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