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Engage and activate your students with Speechi Pro and eBeam – the smart interactive solution

Convert your existing board to an interactive whiteboard with eBeam. The new eBeam software allows you to use standard whiteboard marker pens with the eBeam sleeves at the same time that part of the whiteboard is used interactively together with a projector. The interactive part of the whiteboard is an activated “touch screen” that is controlled by the eBeam stylus and projected tool palette. Record your voice and annotations using Speechi Pro whenever you want and make them part of the lesson or presentation. Engage your students during the class and bring the world into the classroom. Super easy!



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eBeam Complete: Best of both worlds — Projection and Whiteboard

Two fantastic products with one eBeam receiver. With or without a projector, you’ll always enjoy the best interactive technology and software with eBeam Complete and Speechi Pro.

eBeam Projection
Turn your projected image into an interactive workspace.
eBeam Projection works with most projectors and turns any smooth area into an interactive whiteboard. eBeam’s revolutionary tool palettes customize themselves to whatever you are doing on your computer, whether navigating programs, annotating software applications, or presenting dynamic PowerPoint presentations. eBeam also has its own “Scrapbook” application where you can use the ClipArt library, use objects and link them directly to web pages. Speechi Pro records all the PowerPoint presentations including annotations and sound. Perfect for the educational and corporate environments.

eBeam Whiteboard
Record whiteboard notes to your computer.
Save everything on the whiteboard to your computer and share with others. Save notes and make comments, and then send via e-mail or re-use the notes at a later time. If you create a new page, or switch between pages, the eBeam software automatically saves all your work. You can print one or more pages, and you can save using many common file formats.



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Les principes de base du TBI eBeam: Installation et Utilisation (vidéo)

Vous verrez qu’on peut difficilement faire plus simple… La vidĂ©o montre:

- comment installer eBeam au mur

- comment le calibrer

- comment le lancer

Durée: 4 mn.

(Merci, Olivier…)



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John, from Cox Communications: "I was very impressed with the support we got "

Thanks a lot to John for accepting to be interviewed about how he uses Speechi at Cox. It’s always nice to see support efforts are appreciated by customers, even if support is 9 hours time-lagged !

1. What attracted you to Speechi initially?

After searching for a simple, cost effective program that would easily convert PPT to Flash that took around one week, we found Speechi. It seemed to answer all that we needed in one product.

2. What problems did you want Speechi to solve?

It takes a long time to learn Macromedia Flash and we needed to get PPT over to Flash format to save space and make the presentations easily accessible to anyone, even if they did not have PowerPoint or Office on their PC. Time is what Speechi is saving us the most, precious time.

3. How easy was it to get started with Speechi, and how many people use it regularly?

We had some initial problems getting Speechi to work on a corporate machine because of all the IT restrictions, but Speechi Tech Support from France helped us via e-mail and on the telephone. There are around ½ dozen of us in my department, I have shown two others besides myself how to use Speechi. It has a short learning curve and so far everyone has learned how to use it pretty quickly.

4. How do you use Speechi ?

We have many presentations we use during our new hire training, with Speechi, we can give the same presentation over and over again and have great consistency on the message we deliver, also, we can burn the Speechi to CD and students can take them to go over again if they need too. It saves us a lot time and provides students with more access to data and materials outside of the classroom.

5. Anything else ?

I was very impressed with the support we got from France, the founder called me multiple times before we ordered it to answer questions and their tech support was very good, and they were ½ way around the globe.

Thanks a lot Gunnar, for conducting the interview. (again !)



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Vos idées de contribution pour le développement des TICE dans le Nord.

Michel m’écrit aujourd’hui que :

« Un process un peu fou est en cours en NPDC sur la remontĂ©e des objectifs et projets TIC pour la pĂ©riode 2007-2013 pour les crĂ©dits europĂ©ens . Le montant des aides europĂ©ennes pour la rĂ©gion NPDC , bien que rĂ©duit de 25%, se monte Ă  près de 650 Millions d’EUROS et chose nouvelle , 75% de ces crĂ©dits sont destinĂ©s Ă  ACCELERER la mise en oeuvre de la STRATEGIE EUROPENNE DE LISBONNE »

En fait, il s’agit de commencer à sélectionner des projets jugés stratégiques pour le développement de la Région. Le problème est que, même si rien ne bouge ici depuis 5 ans – pour ne pas dire que ça régresse – les projets doivent être remontés vers le Conseil régional sous forme de fiche d’ici 10 jours !

C’est beaucoup trop court, ce n’est pas une raison suffisante pour mal faire. De plus en plus, les régions ont le pouvoir mais le problème est qu’elles ne savent pas – ou ne veulent pas – le prendre.

Je travaille pour ma part sur 4 projets qui me tiennent à cœur, dont deux dans le domaine de l’Open Source. J’aimerais bien avoir un maximum de retours, que ce soit sur ce blog ou par email.

Ce blog est lu d’un peu partout, et en particulier par des lecteurs impliquĂ©s par les politiques TICE d’autres rĂ©gions françaises. Vous aussi pouvez me contacter si vous avez des suggestions…

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Demain, Speechi sera lĂ  / Tomorrow, we will be there.

A Capital IT (une sĂ©lection des 50 startups françaises les plus innovantes. Nous sommes Best Innov“).

L’organisation nous a demandĂ© de ne pas en parler Ă  l’avance pour que nous ne soyons pas contactĂ©s de façon sauvage par des investisseurs refusant de payer le ticket d’entrĂ©e… La primeur pour les lecteurs de ce blog, donc.

Objectif: levĂ©e de fonds pour financer le dĂ©veloppement international… Et Ă  partir de vendredi, vous pouvez me contacter Ă  ce sujet, que vous m’ayez vu ou pas Ă  Capital IT !

I mean, at Capital IT show. Capital IT selects the 50 french most innovative startups and we made it this year.

Sorry for late notice but we were asked not to reveal our selection too early to maintain interest for people to attend.

Readers of this blog are the first ones to know…

Main goal: raise funds for international development. You may contact me when I’m back, on friday, whether or not you have attended !



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Partenariat Speechi - Archimed / Speechi - Archimed partnership announced

Archimed est LA une des (ne lésinons pas) success-story du Nord en matière de services informatiques. En 10 ans, la société, partie de presque rien, a embauché une centaine de collaborateurs.

Archimed est à la fois éditeur et société de services et a en particulier développé une plate-forme de formation : Simplicité.

Archimed is one of the very few technological success stories in Northern France - maybe because it is very much a southern company. Mongi Zidi, Archimed’s president, founded Archimed with nothing except his own goodwill 10 years ago and Archimed now employs over 100 people. Archimed is both a service company and a software editor and they have developped a full training platform for the corporate world named SimplicitĂ©.

As companies want their content to be created from PowerPoint even more than schools and universities, Speechi will be the content creation part of Simplicité.

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Speechi Show Ă  Marseille du 5 au 7 avril / Speechi at EducMed show

Jean GuillemotPour tous nos clients du Sud de la France, nous serons présents à EducMed du 5 au 7 avril, au Parc Chanot à Marseille (stand C 701).

Vous pourrez assister à des démonstrations complètes de Speechi et aussi manipuler vous mêmes les tableaux interactifs mobiles.

Rappelons que, dans le cadre de l’opération d’équipement en t