Distance Education

TML Distance Education Classroom
"Smart Room" Applications

A podium at the front of the room provides instructors with a microphone, VHS format VCR, computer, document camera and controls for all devices, sound and room lighting.

Presenter's podium shown with document camera (left) and shelf for auxilliary devices (right) extended.

Primary remote controls are accessed through a lighted touch-screen panel on top of the podium. Many controls are duplicated on a smaller hand-held remote.

Podium-top touch-screen panel	Hand-held remote

The various available instructional media are presented to the students through a pair of ceiling-mounted video projectors onto retractable screens centered to the front of the room.

January 10, 2006 lowers from ceiling on motorized lift.

Screens lower to cover left and right white boards.

The video projectors may be used to project:

• Videotaped programs (VHS format)
• Signal from Podium Computer (PowerPoint, WWW, etc)
• Transparencies, Opaque notes, realia
• DVD
• Auxilliary devices (personal laptops, modified format VCRs, laserdisc, etc)

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