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Technical College ITV Classrooms Many distance learning systems include combinations of technologies. MSTC’s distance learning system uses interactive television/video as the primary method of instructional delivery with a document camera, fax machine and telephone available for additional interaction between learners and instructors. A videotape recorder/player and access to the Internet is also available in each ITV classroom. Some instructors also include postal and electronic mail as ways of interacting and submitting assignments. There are two different types of ITV sessions – continuous view and scan. Continuous view sessions link as many as four locations at once. One site originates the class or program and three other sites simultaneously receive it. Each site can hear and see all other sites at all times and each classroom will continuously show every participating site and itself on one of four 32” monitors. One set of four monitors is located at the back of the room and the other at the front. This enables a participant at the instructor console to see all the other sites and him/herself while presenting. The monitors at the front of the room enable students facing the front of the room to see and hear all other sites. In a scan session, five or more sites are connected to each other. The session runs in AutoRelay by scanning through the sites, spending approximately seven to ten seconds at each site. A particular remote site can be seen and heard by all other sites when someone at a remote site presses the bar on a push-to-talk microphone or when the instructor at the originating site selects the site on the instructor console. Only two monitors are active during a scan session – the originating and remote sites see the originating site on one monitor and receiving sites one-at-a-time on the other monitor. Contact:
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