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TouchIT Board Training

TouchIT Board – Interactive Whiteboard


Getting Setup with the Touch IT Board


1. Set the board up on a table where you have enough space to fill the screen with the projector.

2. Fire up the projector and get a good square image on the board

3. Connect the USB cable to the board and the computer

4. Connect the VGA cable from the projector to the computer

5. ‘Toggle’ the screen to display the computer image on the computer and the projector

6. Check the server software is running (hand in the bottom right corner of the screen)

7. Wait for it to go green, then with your mouse, right click and choose calibrate.

8. Follow the 9 point calibration process9. You’re done – launch Wiz teach!

What is an Interactive Whiteboard?


• The best definition is that an Interactive whiteboard is really just a large format mouse!

What equipment do I need?


Any questions on the setup or the board itself?

Installing the Software & Server?


• Insert the CD that came with the Touch IT Board (or download the installation files from www.touchittechnologies.com)

• The CD contains the server application and the Wiz teach content. You need to install both.

• When you have installed the software, there will be two icons on your desktop.

• In order to connect the Touch IT Board to your computer, the server must always be running. There should always be the icon next to the clock in the system tray. When it is connected it is green, when it is not connected it is red.

Why Touch / Touch IT Board?


Why is touch important? – Touch-based products are the future!

How does the Technology Work?

With Infrared

There are two types of LEDs (light emitting diodes) photo diode receivers and IR transmitters

Where you touch on the surface breaks the line of sight

The technology calculates an X and a Y position and sends the coordinates to the PC

The PC then turns the coordinates into a mouse position

A simple click represents a left click

A more prolonged ‘press and hold’ creates a right click.


Touch IT Board


Designed especially for education Our aim has been to design the ultimate interactive whiteboard Taken the plus points from others on the market and put them into 1

product

Touch IT Board


Surface - durableUnique – world first touch-based enamel steel whiteboardYou can write on the surface with a dry erase markerSoftware is simple and easy to useBoard setup is really quick and simple

What is in the box?


– 1 x Touch IT Board– 1 x 4.5m USB Cable– 1 x Wall Mounting Kit– 1 x Wall Mounting Instructions– 1 x Warranty Card– 1 x Software CD

– Touch IT Server software– Wiz teach (1 user license)

Optional Extras (not included as standard)• Mobile Stand available for 78” and 90”• Extra Wiz teach licenses

Wiz teach Educational Content


– We will look at the software in more detail separately, but the main point to note is that every Touch IT Board comes with a single user licence of Wiz teach.

– Extra licences can be bought in 5 user and whole site licences.

– To change a licence, all that needs to happen is upgrade the product key. The software itself does not change.

5 Types of Interactive Whiteboard – The Technology


• Resistive• Electromagnetic• Infra Red (IR)• Infra Red and Ultrasound• Camera System



• Resistive

Advantages– Works with a finger

Disadvantages– You can damage the surface easily

You cannot write on it with dry-erase markers

Over time, it looses calibration



• Electromagnetic

Advantages– Hard Surface, fast response time

Disadvantages– You need a pen, you can loose the pen easily

You cannot write on the surface with dry-erase markers



• Infra Red and Ultra Sound

Advantages– Cheap and portable

Disadvantages– There is a lot of interference with the product

Needs a pen– needs batteries

you can loose the pen (expensive)



• Camera system

Advantages– Use with a pen and with a finger

Disadvantages– Expensive

Easily damage the use of the product if the reflective strip is blocked in any way



• Camera system (integrated into pen)

Advantages– Enamel Steel, dry-erase marker friendly, no cables

Disadvantages– Expensive, must use a pen



• Infra Red

Advantages– Touch sensitive, can use a stylus, dry-erase marker friendly (except Qomo)

Disadvantages– Not as fast as electromagnetic

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