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The Portable Classroom
Videoconferencing on the
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Recorded
April 11, 2003
Panel
Veronica Cortinez, Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA
Jeff Fairbanks, Coodinator, OID Audio Visual Department
Videoconferencing Services
Ross Starr, Economics, UCSD (via taped
interview)
Tim Tangherlini, Scandinavian Languages, UCLA
John Villasenor, Electrical Engineering, UCLA (via
taped interview)
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Not long ago participating in a videoconference
was a cumbersome task. It usually involved banks of expensive
hardware producing a mix of garbled sound and fuzzy pictures
frequently downgraded by static on the line.
No more. Now, using portable equipment that fits into a
suitcase, you can teach a class from any location from which you
can plug into the internet. Setting it up (once arrangements
have been made with the remote site) takes no longer than ten
minutes. This means that an instructor can hold a discussion
with a guest at a remote site, teach a class here at UCLA while
travelling on the road; or create a virtual classroom consisting
of students from UCLA as well as other UC's.
For this forum, four instructors who have done just that (use
guests, teach on the road, teach students from several UC's)
will relate some of their experiences using this portable
equipment. Some will participate in the forum via a taped
interviews utilizing the videoconferencing equipment. Others
will discuss and show taped excerpts from the classes they have
taught. We will also demonstrate just how all this equipment is
set up and used.
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Webcast is produced by the Instructional Media Production | 62-073 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)