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Date: 7 Feb 93 12:58:49 EST
From: Paul Massue-Monat <MONAT@grads.admin.uottawa.ca>

>> Paul:  Will our software "exact"(?) allow turning on/off the
student or > slave monitors?
>
> Thanks to Steve Herro for the tip on turning off students' monitors while
> presenting. Those of us in the teaching game learned early that if you
> hand out paper then try to talk, all eyes are on the paper and nobody listens.
>
What you did with EXAC was slightly different since you were giving a
live demo to the students. They only saw "one page of the hand-out"
at a time and then that page disappeared forever. In this case, to
"blank" the screen of the students, you need to broadcast a blank
page somehow; in the case of PMail, you would do that by going to dos
temporarily (Ctrl-F10) and typing CLS.

With EXAC, there is no switch (as far as I know) that can broadcast a
blank page.

You may use EXAC to give a presentation. In that case, you need to
prepare your presentation with a particular software. To name a few
software available on the student labs: LeProf, CorelShow, QuattroPro,
Harvard Graphics. With these software, you can go forward,
backward and possibly have a way of broadcasting a blank page so that
students would be "forced" to listen. Such a presentation can be the
equivalent of a hand-out; afterwards, students can be given the right
to review the presentation as often as they wish.

What you may prefer, is a software dedicated to making teaching
presentations; there are a few on the market and I'm fascinated
by the possibilities of multi-media. Finally, teaching would come of
age because people would be able to learn as they can learn:
people with different learning abilities will be able to learn using
those abilities. Right now, we focus on people who have a "reading
memory"; we focus very little on people who have "listening memories"
or "visual memories" or "doing it by myself memories". We all have
these different types of "memories" but some are stronger than
others.

With multimedia, a teacher, with his assistants (computer specialist,
sound specialist, video specialist) would prepare his course once and
it would be recorded on all medias: paper, video, sound. When he
actually gives the course, he could be in a small room were people
who learn by being in front of a human would be there; others
could be elsewhere where they could ask questions and see the teacher
on a screen, others would not come to the course and just wait
for it to be available "on media" (and it would be available
immediately at the end of the class).

Enough rambling.

LeProf is made by Prof. Raymond at the Faculty of Science. Despite
its inadequacies, Dominique Ferrand uses it extensively in his
courses.

   Paul M.-Monat   monat@grads.admin.uottawa.ca   613-564-6895
                     Lab Mgr/Faculty of Admin/Univ of Ottawa