The Magic of e-Labs:

WHAT THIS LEARNING LAB CAN OFFER YOUR SCHOOL

E-Labs are brimming with high-tech equipment for teachers to make academic lessons come alive and for students to explore the world around them without leaving their seats.

• Permanent Student Technology Workstations
  • In the classroom, teachers can develop a myriad of technology-supported learning projects that enable student to solve real-world problems, retrieve information from online resources, and connect with experts from around the world.
  • An instructor can share an author’s Website with students to help them understand how writers make their stories interesting.
  • Middle-school students can use e-mail and teleconferencing to connect with experts to solve science problems.
  • High-school students can develop a mock technology company and use the Internet, scanners, and presentation software to plan and deliver speeches to stockholders.

• Laptop Portable Workstations
  • Instruct a mixed period where every student works on their individual laptop while each students’ computer screen is displayed on the instructor’s monitor.
  • Technology-teaching and one-on-one learning makes it easier for students with special needs, as well as high achievers, to get the attention they deserve. 

• LED 46” HDTV Wall Monitors
  • Monitors that interface creating an 11’ movie screen visual offering a larger capability to conduct multi-media. 
  • An instructor can be teaching on the center LED Smartboard Display Frame (which acts as whiteboard), while an LED Wall Monitor in a remote classroom will mimic and display the instructor’s message.  All the while, both classrooms have a view of each other.  So when a student raises his or her hand, the instructor responds.
  • 11’ projection screen for delivering documentary films that highlight the story of world leaders like Albert Einstein, Fidel Castro, & Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Touch Media Screens can take students on an accessible self-guided tour of the Louvre or other world famous museums.

• LED Screens for Long-Distance, interactive and corroborative learning
  • Model the United Nations debates with students from around the world.  See who has the most accurate and realistic portrayal of their foreign policies.
  • Capitalize on the inquisitive nature of students from across the states and conduct Virtual Debates between two school

• Smartboard Interactive Display Frames
  • Help teachers engage students in extraordinary ways with lasting results.
  • Enable teachers to reach students in more visual, real-world ways.
  • Create multimedia lessons that make science and math concepts more memorable.
  • Share interactive lesson material and files with students.
  • Visually reinforce difficult concepts and improve students’ retention of information.

• Flatbed Color Scanner
  • Instantly access term papers, research findings, and other key documents, and then send them via e-mail, eliminating wasteful printing and distribution costs, while lowering physical labor and storage costs.
  • Digitally preserve, protect and archive all of their crucial documents, whether it’s a student’s proposal or a professor’s important administrative paperwork.
  • Scan in student drawings and use on a school website.
  • Email PDF files, such as grading reports, to students’ parents.

• Video Conferencing Cameras
  • Have elementary school students participate in a web camera conference with students in other countries.
  • Use a document camera to dissect a frog rather than reading about it in books.

• Interview Camera for Students to Interact With
  • Follow the lives of students, teachers and parents in school in a natural way.

• Wireless Internet Access Points (802.11b/g/n) & CAT 6 Network Technical Wiring
  • Upgraded wireless Internet access quickens Internet loading speeds and allows students and teachers to access streaming video and audio, which isn’t possible with smaller bandwidth.

• Station Censored Watt Stoppers
  • Reduces energy costs by turning off when not needed.
  • In-between classes or at lunch hour when the computer workstations are vacated, the time delay signals to switch the computer off.

• Teacher Trainings
  • E-Labs Technology exposes teachers to trainers who model the progressive nature of educational technology.
  • Alleviate teachers fears by providing them with the confidence and training to pursue the use of technology in their classrooms.
  • Technology teaching could relieve the burden on teachers to prepare content for every lesson each day. 
  • Help Instructors to teach special skills, such as foreign languages, that many regular schools may not otherwise be able to afford. 

• Modular Work Stations Creating Peer to Peer Interaction
  • A style of interaction which is very powerful and one in which students can interact directly with each other while maintaining the privacy of their own computer monitor.
  • Students can research and fact-check claims made by current running presidential candidates and discuss with peers

• A Green Reality
  • Schools that provide a healthy environment for students and staff, while promoting ecological sustainability, by using alternatives to toxic chemicals, pursuing green building maintenance practices, changing their resource consumption patterns and teaching students to be stewards of their communities, the earth and its resources. 
  • Imagine this “green” reality with us.  e-Labs can offer the opportunity to give our students the knowledge, skills, tools and motivation to be global, green citizens of the world.