Case Studies

New features that are useful for activities where people gather together are what makes the BQ1 especially useful in a post-COVID-19 world

At Ishiki Elementary School in Kawatana Town, on the last day of the spring school term, a BQ1 touch screen display was installed in each classroom. These were put into full-fledged use starting with the Peace Learning class held on August 9, the memorial day the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Under normal circumstances, this class is conducted as a whole-school assembly in the gymnasium, but this year, the BQ1's Screen Transfer function was used to allow students and teachers to remain in their classrooms. Screen Transfer is software that allows the display of a single PC screen to be broadcast on displays in multiple places by means of a wired LAN. For the Ishiki Elementary School Peace Learning assembly, the school principal gave a speech in the 4th-grade classroom and the students made Peace Learning presentations in front of a camera, and this was shown live on the other classrooms' BQ1 units. "In the gymnasium, there are issues of intense heat in the summer, and with the current coronavirus pandemic the assembly itself was out of the question. By using the video broadcast feature of these touch screen displays, information can be shared in a safe and secure manner to students in comfortably air-conditioned classrooms. This will surely prove a valuable tool in activities that involve people gathering together in a post-COVID-19 world." (Hisaya Terachi, principal, Kawatana Municipal Ishiki Elementary School)

Touch screen displays produced with an attention to detail, to meet the needs of teachers in the field

The BQ1 is a more advanced version of the Join Board that was adopted in numerous schools as an intuitive touch screen display, and was developed in response to requests from teachers. It is equipped with a wide range of new functions that are especially useful in collaborative learning. For the Ishiki Elementary School classes, its timer function was used to time the students as they wrote their Peace Learning essays, and the multi-screen comparison function was used in science class to show a quartered screen with temperature graphs for spring and summer so that the students could mark the right answer to the question “Which temperature is from which month?” on the touch screen. “Even without using a PC, I can show images to the students that are saved on a USB stick or a digital camera, which is very convenient,” says Takehiro Kawasaki, the class's teacher. “Another useful feature is the ability to use not only the special stylus but even a finger to write on the touch screen. It also has front glass that reduces the glare from the sun, and a protective cover that prevents students from hurting themselves even if they bang into the corners. I hope to be able to use this touch screen display and tablet to make collaborative learning, whereby students learn actively, a reality.”