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We organized a session for Dalhousie University faculty and staff (about 
thirty six people attended) to participate in the live satellite broadcast 
of this program.  All participants were pleased with the production, 
although we wished there was more time for questions and answers (difficult 
during a two-hour session).  In our post-videoconference discussion, we 
agreed to organize follow-up sessions to discuss our experiences and needs 
on our own campus.  I would recommend purchasing the videotape:  it is very 
useful for faculty, administrators, classroom designers, architects, 
audio-visual and computing personnel, and so on.  (Perhaps you could ask 
your institution's media centre or library to add this to its holdings.)

The video clips showing new facilities in three different universities were 
very instructive.  Since we are now renovating classrooms to integrate 
technology, building new buildings, and constructing a brand-new language 
lab, we were especially interested in learning how others deal with the 
challenges we're facing.  While everyone here said they learned something 
new, it was also heartening to see that we've been making many decisions 
consistent with the "best practices" cited in the program.

Perhaps the best part of our experience was in getting together individuals 
from a number of academic and support departments who wouldn't normally 
meet. The necessity for this was emphasized in the videoconference and 
certainly illustrated at our local site.   Especially valuable was that the 
support staff got to hear from the academic staff about how they teach and 
to gain some understanding of why this important pedagogically.  On the 
other side, the academic staff got some insight into the problems facing 
support staff who must design and equip classrooms which meet the needs of 
a wide variety of teaching and learning styles.

We're hoping that this will be the beginning of many more collaborative 
efforts.  In the short term, we plan to present another workshop in which 
participants will get detailed information about the issues of classroom 
design raised in the videoconference.  This will provide the foundation for 
the next step of devising classroom design guidelines appropriate to our 
campus.


Carol O'Neil
Manager, Instructional Media Services
Office of  Instructional Development and Technology
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada    B3H 3J5
Phone:  (902) 494-6471      Fax:      (902) 494-6831            E-mail: 
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>Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:58:16 -0400
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>Subject: Re: #5601.3 Designing classrooms program (!)

Okay folks!  How was the PBS/ALSS downlink of the CCUMC Designing
Classrooms for Tech Use teleconference?

Who saw it and how did it go, huh?

Before we all go out and get expensive copies, some feedback on
the content would be great!

thanks from all the interested parties,
bruce