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<DIV><SPAN class=064411816-18102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>More
noise.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=064411816-18102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>--Ivan</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Paul Salva
[mailto:psalva@techplannersinc.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 16,
2002 5:57 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Ivan Judson<BR><B>Cc:</B> Dave
Miller<BR><B>Subject:</B> Fw: Chicago University Brief - -
Review<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ivan,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just thought you might be interested in this to
support your docking requirement of the AG. I know it's a canned program
but I know the folks at CrossTec and if this looks like something in which
you might be interested, let me know and I'll make contact for you -
maybe they can work a custom deal for the AG.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope all is well with AG 2.0.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paul Salva, President, </FONT><FONT
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=dmiller@edutec-resources.com
href="mailto:dmiller@edutec-resources.com">Dave Miller</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title="Paul Salva :;" href="mailto:Paul Salva :;">Paul
Salva :;</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:44 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Fwd: Chicago University Brief - - Review</DIV></DIV>
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ron.william@rawledu.com,<BR> john@crossteccorp.com<BR>From: John
Pallaria <john@crossteccorp.com><BR>Subject: Chicago University Brief
- - Review<BR><BR>
<DIV align=center><B>Proposal for CSU Technology Conference in
August<BR>George Williams<BR>Chicago State University, English
Department<BR>773-995-3826<BR></B><FONT
color=#0000ff><U>geowms@enteract.com</U></FONT><B> or </B><FONT
color=#0000ff><U>GP-Williams@csu.edu<BR><BR></U></FONT><B>INDIVIDUALIZED
CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION & CONFERENCING<BR></B>The Netop School Software
Program<BR><BR></DIV><X-TAB> </X-TAB>We
have all worked in or visited a typical computer classroom: rows of computer
stations with only a few feet between rows. The students enter the computer
lab and take seats at the PC stations: bookbags on the floor, folders open
beside the keyboards, coats draped over the back of chairs. Then we add an
instructor trying to maneuver between student chairs to answer individual
student questions. This is not a pleasant environment; the Instructor tries
to move from one end of the classroom to the other side, answer questions,
begin instruction, or help a student with a subject-verb agreement problem
or with the documentation of research information. This is a frustrating,
defeating
situation.<BR><X-TAB> </X-TAB>Now
picture this: with the Netop School software the Instructor supervises one
student with the research problem, indicates a pronoun-antecedent problem to
another student, or tells the last student in the last seat to stop playing
Freecell. And the Instructor does all of this from the Instructor's
computer. In a sense, the teacher multiplies his or her presence to each
student individually. The Instructor is able to help a student with an
English essay or an Algebra solution or a geographic topological analysis
without distracting the people on either side of the student with the
problem and without embarrassing the student who has the
difficulty.<BR><X-TAB> </X-TAB>By
means of the Netop software for the networked classroom, the Instructor can
demonstrate the teacher's screen or any student's screen to the entire class
for a presentation. Also the teacher can monitor each student's activity on
the Instructor's monitor, and when the teacher wants to present a brief
lecture or make a comment to the entire class, the Instructor can freeze all
the students' monitors. Perhaps most importantly, the Instructor is able to
conference with a student concerning a class project or individual problem
privately without distracting others in the class. The teacher can control
the student's mouse and keyboard in order to illustrate a lesson as if he or
she were sitting beside the student. As teachers, we constantly face the
challenge of commenting on a student paper where there is almost no space
available. Using the student's own keyboard and mouse allows the teacher
ample space to insert comment and highlight errors.
<BR><X-TAB> </X-TAB>Using the
Netop School program, the Instructor can also send and receive files without
floppy disks, launch programs on all student PCs simultaneously with a
single command, and allow students to ask for attention without interrupting
the class. Students and teacher can write messages and participate in
conference sessions using a chatroom. In addition, using a simple scanner,
an Instructor can present current news and magazine articles to the class on
whatever the lesson of the day is. Netop is also a great tool to direct and
supervise Internet research or present information to all members of the
class simultaneously from the
web.<BR><I><X-TAB> </X-TAB>I
must include some practical applications that have proved worthwhile with my
classes. I make extensive use of the demo feature of Netop. Working with
developmental classes, I constantly make up grammar and structural exercises
drawn from the students' own writings and save them to a floppy diskette.
When I demo these to the class I am able to type in corrections for their
errors as we review these exercises, and I type in grammar rules, spelling
corrections and sentence rearrangements, etc. I find that the students pay
close attention to this work and comment that they are learning writing
improvements and rules as they have never done before. It would be
impossible to use a blackboard with its many drawbacks to achieve what I can
accomplish with my classes. This demo work includes scanning articles and
other writing examples to a floppy disk and critiquing them with the
class.<BR><BR></I><X-TAB> </X-TAB>Finally,
with the Netop School program there is no need for expensive projection
equipment or movable carts with projector and computer/laptop hookup or a
projection screen of poor quality or in need of repair. In a computer
classroom each student's attention is focused on his or her monitor and PC;
and often in spite of whatever the Instructor might say, the students still
focus on their monitor and their own work. The Netop School program
capitalizes on the students' focused attention. The Instructor can present
information and monitor and help students with individual assignments or
projects so that class time is not wasted for the more advanced students. At
the end of the class, the Instructor is not deluged with papers unless so
desired, the department's budget is not being spent on paper and ink
cartridges for printers, and students are not losing
assignments.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>