FW: Chicago University Brief - - Review

[Ivan R. Judson]

More noise.
 
--Ivan
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Salva [mailto:psalva at techplannersinc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:57 PM
To: Ivan Judson
Cc: Dave Miller
Subject: Fw: Chicago University Brief - - Review


Ivan,
 
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.
 
Hope all is well with AG 2.0.
 
thanks 
 

Paul Salva, President, Tech Planners, Inc.    | Ph: (847) 228-6200
http://www.techplannersinc.com               | Fax: (847) 228-6204
1836 Elmhurst - Elk Grove Village, IL  60007 | Cell: (630) 816-1193
 
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Proposal for CSU Technology Conference in August
George Williams
Chicago State University, English Department
773-995-3826
geowms at enteract.com  or  GP-Williams at csu.edu

INDIVIDUALIZED CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION & CONFERENCING
The Netop School Software Program


        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.
        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.
        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. 
        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.
        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.

        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.


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