South East Essex College

Cutting Edge Teaching

Technology update
Ora Kitchen & Student Skills Kitchen

• To enable cookery teaching to be cutting-edge and offer the most flexibility possible for its students
• Impact recommended a combination of cameras, customised control panels and a central server to record the lessons
• Using the new tools, chefs are able to pause and review a current recording during a live lesson while continuing to record centrally
• Students can then access these recordings on demand
• Both kitchens have waterproof LCD screens that allow lecture-chefs to see the current camera view and to review the last recorded content via a hard disk recorder
• The whole system can be controlled from anywhere within the kitchen
• Students can access the content via a standard web browser creating their own bookmarks and clips to personalise their own recordings without altering the original
• Live session can be accessed online by any authorised student from a networked PC within the College's network