Re: Hands-on?

At 02:58 PM 11/29/99 -0800, William R Ward wrote:
>Peter Scott <[email protected]> writes:
> > If you teach hands-on, on what platforms, and - assuming you don't operate
> > the classroom yourself - how do you communicate your hardware and
> > configuration requirements to the client?  Has that process worked well?
>
>I teach a community college class and don't have the resources
>available to me to do a hands-on class.  Even if I did, I don't think
>I'd want to, because the students would be too tempted to goof off
>with the computers rather than pay attention to my lecture.

Oracle training (I mention this because they're the only people I've seen 
with it) have a setup I envy, where the instructor takes control of the PCs 
to deliver the lecture material through broadcast PowerPoint slides, then 
releases them for the exercises.  (They also have the ability to view any 
student display on their own machine and even take the student machine over 
to show them what they should be doing.)

Yep, it smacks of authoritarianism if you're a student, and there are often 
a few mock groans from the students racing to type something in, but from a 
student perspective, it worked.  I'd like to have that as an instructor.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies