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> faculty agreed that they didn't use all the features that they 
> originally requested.  What they asked for this time was faster, 
> easier, more flexible access to the few features that they do use, and 
> express little interest in more features.

This makes a lot of sense. People like to work with what they are 
comfortable with.

> 
> Still very important in our program is tight integration with VHS 
> tapes.  The majority of the materials purchased by the department for 
> student use and instruction are still available only on VHS, we are 
> told.  Teachers also find that they prefer to receive certain kinds of 
> student work on VHS, including some homework and most in-class quizzes 
> and exams.  This is obviously a problem since VHS equipment is 
> disappearing.

It might be worth seeing about getting a demo of the Sanako system 
specific to this need. We are in the early stages of trying out its 
video-transfer system, which depends on Win-TV cards. You can play an 
analog video tape on each student's screen. Students can't however 
manipulate the video individually (though they CAN play digitized video 
clips with complete freedom).

Apparently it is possible to set things up with cameras so that the 
student is recorded at the same time, in side-by-side windows, which 
sounds really wonderful for ASL.

I suspect that if teachers could get used to using digital video they 
would prefer it--after all, they can play it on any computer. In 
principle students ought to be able to do homework in the lab, and 
upload the clips to a course management system or other shared space 
where the teacher could view it. I guess there is a lot of "if" here. 
Shared drives and course management systems have gotten some of our 
faculty a long way past analog media.

Judy Shoaf


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