Kerala General Education Minister launches new interactive device for digital research

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 1: Kerala General Education Minister V.

Sivankutty on Saturday launched ‘KITE Board’ software, a multi-purpose, system impartial, FOSS primarily based, interactive device which might facilitate academics with hassle-free utilization of hi-tech gear in lecture rooms.

Sivankutty mentioned the KITE Board is the newest contribution of the State which has already created a digital revolution through the use of solely Free Software in Education sector and the brand new addition would assist in creation of an entertaining contemporary studying setting in lecture rooms.

The KITE Board additionally facilitates storage of content material written in Black board by the trainer in PDF format, a function which might additionally profit college students who’re unable to attend a category.

It additionally permits recording of actions executed within the Board utilizing display screen recording.

The classroom actions comparable to science experiments might be captured utilizing the built-in digital camera of Laptop which might then be proven by means of the KITE Board.

Ok. Anvar Sadath, CEO, KITE mentioned that they had made needed preparations to make sure availability of the KITE Board software in all laptops in faculties as a easy improve just like the deployment of E-Language Lab software program.

The new software could be familiarised to all School IT Co-ordinators in the course of the ‘Techie Teacher’ residential IT coaching which might be carried out throughout October.

The ‘KITE Board’, developed by Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), is a Free Software (FOSS), primarily based software which requires no particular {hardware} like pricey interactive boards which are out there out there and might be merely used as a part of the KITE/GNU Linux 20.04 Operating System out there in round two lakh laptops in 16,000 faculties, deployed as a part of the Hi-Tech tasks.

By utilizing a KITE Board, academics would be capable of write and sort utilizing a laptop computer and also can mission them in lecture rooms utilizing the projector, just like utilizing a Black board.

It is a singular function of the appliance that academics may pre-load the sources comparable to video, photos and displays from Samagra portal within the KITE Board, which might then be used both on-line or offline as wanted.

Further, the KITE Board additionally facilitates utilization of on-line sources comparable to Wikipedia.

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