Jan. 6, 2025
A New Era in Educational Tools
Tune in as Joseph shares real-world success stories and innovative uses of their technology that have empowered educators and technology coordinators nationwide. Learn about the exciting capabilities of LiteTouch products, including emergency management tools and facial detection tracking cameras, which are crafted to meet the evolving needs of modern classrooms. This episode is a treasure trove for anyone passionate about educational technology, brimming with insights and solutions that promise to elevate teaching and learning to new heights. Don't miss your chance to discover the tools that are not only transforming schools but also paving the way for future educational success.
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Welcome to Spotlight for Success by American Boot Company.
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I am Devin Pintosi, chief Operating Officer.
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We are here at the Georgia Educational Technology Conference and we are speaking here with our guest, joseph Smith, with LightTouch.
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Joseph, how are you doing today?
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I'm very well, wonderful.
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Can you tell us a little bit about what brought you here to the Georgia Educational Technology Conference?
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Yeah, we're here today to show off our interactive educational panels, so we're really excited to be here today.
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Wonderful.
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Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
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Yeah, I'm from Kentucky, so we're a Kentucky-based interactive flat panel manufacturer.
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So we're a Kentucky-based interactive flat panel manufacturer.
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So basically, what we do is we travel around the country and visit different exhibitions all over the world, really.
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So we're here in Atlanta today, down by the airport, at the GICC, to show off what we have exciting new in our product line.
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That's wonderful, and so what kind of things?
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do you offer to the education community?
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So really, our main product line is called Light Touch, just like our name, and Light Touch is an interactive panel, much kind of like a smart board.
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So basically, a Light Touch is a interactive panel that has a piece of educational software on there that you can use Google Classroom.
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You can use our piece of software called Enlighten that integrates with Google Classroom.
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It has AI-generated tools on there that lets the teacher to generate a lesson plan with lots of tools, of widgets and classroom quizzes.
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There's just so many tools on there for the teachers to use.
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We have many more products as well, so video walls, document cameras, pretty much full classroom audio-video products.
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That's wonderful, joseph, and what kind of experiences has perhaps an educator or a technology coordinator shared with you about how the products that you sell have helped their school or helped their students?
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It really depends on what they're looking for.
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It is a vast variety of enhancing what they do in the classroom.
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You know it starts really at preschool.
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So when you look at the preschool level, you know they need engagement in the classroom.
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So we have special software for preschoolers.
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We have special mounts for preschoolers that lower it down to the preschool level.
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That brings it down right in front of them.
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It turns it into a tabletop setting.
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Then, when you get up into the early elementary level, we have very engaging tools and pieces of software that do quizzes for them and it's engaging.
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If the students have iPads or if they have Chromebooks, then the students can interact with the teachers and they can interact with the LightTouch panel and actually do two-way communication with the LightTouch and do quizzing and interactive lesson plans.
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When it moves on up to the middle school and high school level, you know maybe you're just viewing what's going on and actually presenting your project that you're doing in the classroom to the light touch panel.
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So it's really a multi-faceted thing.
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Depending on what you're doing.
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It's just uh, there's really so much that you can do with it.
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That is wonderful.
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Is there anything else you'd like to share with the educational technology community that's here at the conference?
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Yeah, I mean we have video wall products as well.
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We have management tools for the IT professional.
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It's basically an emergency management piece of software.
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You can use it for digital signage.
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So there's so much that you can do with the LightTouch products.
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We have classroom AV microphone systems.
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You have facial detection tracking cameras that can track you with a mask, without a mask.
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We have a little bit of everything for everyone.
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That's wonderful.
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Well, joseph, thank you so much for participating with us at the Georgia Educational Technology Conference, part of Spotlight for Success, American Book Company.
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Thank you so much.
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Yeah, thank you Appreciate the time, all right.
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