Lewiston is on the line
Anyway. One of my classes is an odd hybrid of ITV (Interactive Television) and online.
For the ITV part, I go to a little room on here on the Lewiston campus and watch TV.
The lecture is broadcast from a lecture hall the Portland campus. Maybe 50 students are in the lecture hall, while being watched by voyeurs in little rooms all over the state.
From our little rooms, we can see who shows up late-- a dozen or so shuffled in about 20 minutes into class.
There are telephones in the little room, so we can interact with the professor on TV.
Students in the lecture hall on TV have little clickers, just like "Ask the Audience" on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". Cool bar charts come up on the screen. For example, 100% of the students in the lecture hall on TV believe it is not snowing today.
We don't get little clickers in the little room. We have telephones.
When someone in a little room calls the toll-free number, a graphic comes up on the screen, identifying the caller: "South Paris is on the line".
If the professor doesn't acknowledge the caller from the little room in South Paris, a disembodied voice says, "There is a caller from South Paris."
I really really need these 3 credits.
For the ITV part, I go to a little room on here on the Lewiston campus and watch TV.
The lecture is broadcast from a lecture hall the Portland campus. Maybe 50 students are in the lecture hall, while being watched by voyeurs in little rooms all over the state.
From our little rooms, we can see who shows up late-- a dozen or so shuffled in about 20 minutes into class.
There are telephones in the little room, so we can interact with the professor on TV.
Students in the lecture hall on TV have little clickers, just like "Ask the Audience" on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". Cool bar charts come up on the screen. For example, 100% of the students in the lecture hall on TV believe it is not snowing today.
We don't get little clickers in the little room. We have telephones.
When someone in a little room calls the toll-free number, a graphic comes up on the screen, identifying the caller: "South Paris is on the line".
If the professor doesn't acknowledge the caller from the little room in South Paris, a disembodied voice says, "There is a caller from South Paris."
I really really need these 3 credits.
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