My Essential Tool for Teaching about AI: The Rise Vision Media Player

Teaching artificial intelligence is different. It is different because AI tools interact differently with each of us. Therefore, I cannot expect to have all of the knowledge because each person has a different experience. So, as I teach artificial intelligence I want students to be able to show their screens, discuss their prompts and go through the iterative process as we discuss how the various models of AI work. I’ve learned that it is wise to approach AI (and any tool) with technoskepticism and so looking at the results as a class with a critical eye is vital.

I had an old board and it would no longer do what I needed to be done and so I needed a solution. So, Rise Vision and I have connected and I like their product so much, I’m sharing my story with you about integrating it into my classroom teaching. You can dig deeper into it through this blog post or watch the video I made about this amazing tool below.

This post is sponsored by Rise Vision. All opinions my own.

Unboxing My Rise Vision Media Player, and How It is Used

What Does Rise Vision Do?

Rise Vision has so many capabilities including:

✅ Teachers can share their screen wirelessly

✅ Students can share their screen wirelessly to the board (either moderated or non moderated)

✅ Digital signage that is quick to setup with information from the local classroom, the school, the district, and even live information from the Internet like a STEM fact of the day, the weather. With other 600+ templates, a great screen is ready to go to my board in one click.

✅ Connecting to the emergency alert system for your school so when an alert happens, the visually impaired or kids in a noisy classroom can know what is going on.

Over 5,000+ schools have used Rise Vision as their digital signage but the small box does so much more: it transforms any display into a wireless presentation hub that can do more.

How is Rise Vision Different?

An Affordable Price

First, the price is very affordable. You can use a Rise Vision media player to update your old projectors or boards, or large screen TV’s for a fraction of the cost for replacing them. Rise Vision is a smart way to reuse old interactive displays.

Easy to Set Up

As you can see in the video, there are no proprietary cables, just a regular HDMI and power supply. You can hook it up either with an antenna to be wireless or an ethernet cable. I had mine hooked up in less than 5 minutes.

Fast Digital Signage with Useful Templates

I didn’t expect the digital signage to be so easy to set up. With more than 600+ templates, many of which update live from the Internet, I was able to quickly select the images that I wanted to put on my board. Just a few of the ones that excited me included:

✅ Word of the day
✅ Animal of the day
✅ Daily act of kindness
✅ Weekly calendar (that can update live from a Google Calendar or other source)
✅ On this day in history
✅  Countdowns (for most any event – graduation, end of school, breaks and more)
✅ Birthday class lists (for me to customize and schedule)
✅ Quote of the day
✅ Special events
✅ STEM Facts (autoupdated)
✅ Library Book Quotes (autoupdated)
✅ A feed from the school’s social media page
✅ 600+ templates total that are quick and easy to use

In Rise Vision’s research, they found that teachers, administrators and IT support were spending up to 16 hours a week managing digital content on their displays. That changes with Rise Vision. Classroom teachers can schedule information for their classroom board. Administrators can send information to all of the Rise Vision media players in their school (or some of them), and district leaders can also send information for the district, streamlining something that usually takes a lot of time. The Rise Vision media player is affordable and scalable for every classroom.

Quick, Wireless Screen Sharing (That Can Be Moderated)

The Rise Vision Media Player is more than Screen Sharing –It’s a Complete Classroom Communication Tool.

Teachers sharing to the screen is usually pretty easy to do, but I wanted to have students share. This is easy. I can have them all join the board. I then invite different students to present based on what I’m seeing on their screens.

This worked great with Chromebooks, Macs, and PC’s and just about anything. It was easy to do and took no troubleshooting. I also appreciated having complete control and being able to turn it off or on. The Rise Vision Media Player is simple, secure, and teacher-friendly.

Security Alerts

For schools that Rise Vision with their emergency alert system, every board using Rise Vision can instantly share critical safety information.

For students with hearing impairments or any noisy environment, visual alerts can be time-saving and life-saving. The boards can instantly share this information from your alert system after integration. This scalable solution can give peace of mind to your security team in that every teacher board and visual display using Rise Vision is not only easy to manage but instantly accessible to your security team’s response alert system.

Rise Vision

If you’re interested in Rise Vision, go to Risevision.com/10Minuteteacher and see how they can help your school today. I highly recommend the Rise Vision media player. It has made my old interactive board into a wireless presentation hub to take me into the future. My students enjoyed it and I find it so useful.

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