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Background
South Metro TAFE teaches in working training kitchens, where learning happens by watching a culinary technique demonstrated and then repeating it.
The TAFE wanted AV technology that made those demonstrations genuinely visible to a whole class, and that gave students a way to record their own work for assessment. Focus AV was engaged to design and install the system across the training kitchens.
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The challenge
Under the old setup, not every student could see an instructor's demonstration clearly, or in enough detail to follow it. Only those standing closest got a proper view.
That cost teaching staff time. They were pulled into one-on-one sessions, repeating demonstrations for students who physically could not see the detail needed to perform the task or understand the instruction.
Our brief was to equip every workspace with AV that reinforces the demonstration at the training station itself, and to give students a way to capture and record their own work for teacher assessment.
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The solution
Atlona PTZ cameras capture the instructor's bench in high definition, with pan, tilt and zoom letting the view close right in on a specific technique. That feed goes to 50" Samsung displays positioned through the training areas, so students follow the detail from their own station rather than crowding the demonstration.
Audio is handled by a Shure wireless digital lapel system for the instructor and Biamp 6.5" ceiling speakers through the kitchens, keeping instructions audible over kitchen noise. A Listen Inc. Complete IR assistive listening system runs alongside it for students with hearing impairments.
Instructors drive the lot from an Extron 10" TouchLink Pro touch panel in each training area.
- Atlona PTZ cameras
- 50" Samsung displays
- Listen Inc. Complete IR assistive listening system
- Shure wireless digital lapel system
- Extron 10" TouchLink Pro touch panel
- Biamp 6.5" ceiling speaker system
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The outcome
Instructors demonstrate once and the whole class sees it properly, which takes the pressure off repeating techniques student by student. Students follow along with a clear view and clear audio from wherever they are working.
The assistive listening system means hearing impairment no longer decides how much of a demonstration a student takes in. Both instructors and students have reported the kitchens are easier to teach in and easier to learn in.
