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Will I be on TV? Will everyone be able to
see me? You will not be seen on public television. ITV provides the
opportunity for our faculty and students to participate in
closed-circuit television classes. Only your students at the remote site
will be able to see you on TV. How do I communicate with my students at the
remote sites? You will be able to see and hear your students in real time. Every
student at the remote site has access to a microphone and there are
cameras mounted in the remote studios. At each student desk is a
push-to-talk microphone which, when pushed and held on, sends a locating
signal to the student camera so you can see the student speaking Once
the microphone is released it is turned off and the camera resumes a
neutral (wide angle) position enabling you to see the entire classroom.
How do I get course materials to and from my
remote students? - WEB SERVICES: Web services are available to faculty who wish to create websites for their classes. This is an easy way to allow your distance education students to have quick access to syllabi, course materials and other information via the Web. You can fill out a Website Support Form and we will assign a Web Dev student who will help you upload handouts and other materials to your course website. E-Services will provide private lessons free of charge for faculty members interested in creating websites for their ITV courses, or, if you prefer, we can maintain the site for you. Please call 654-2315 for more information. - WebCT: CSUB's course management tool, WebCT gives ITV faculty the ability to provide course materials via the web, allowing distance education students to communicate with each other with a built in email system, threaded discussion board and chat options. Faculty can administer tests, collect assignments, track grades, use statistics for assessment purposes, show video clips, provide web links, and more. Online debates and brainstorming are becoming increasingly popular as
professors discover students can carry on discussions that enhance face
to face work. WebCT is a versatile tool that can greatly enhance the
student experience. - FAX: In each studio, there is a fax/copy machine. You can come to class early and fax a single copy of a handout to the remote site. Duplicates will then be made for your students. This is also true for materials that need to be returned to you. Homework assignments, term papers, and written exams can be faxed directly in the classroom. The original copies can be returned to you via intercampus mail or our overnight delivery service. Please note: The FAX machine is not a fast or economical copy machine and should not be used to make multiple copies of handouts. - INTERCAMPUS MAIL: If you need to distribute a large amount of information, you can send it directly to the Antelope Valley Campus via CSUB’s intercampus mail. A daily courier picks up and delivers mail in the CSUB mailroom. You can use the intercampus mail system directly from your department or from the ITV office. - COPIES: As we all know, paper costs money. The most economical way to provide course materials to your students is via the web. If you wish to make hard copies yourself we will by happy to send them to AV overnight. - OVERNIGHT DELIVERY: Materials sent to other remote locations (College of Sequoias) will be sent via overnight delivery from the ITV office. The overnight delivery service picks up materials from the ITV office at 3:00 pm daily. Please remember to include enough copies for all of your students at each site. - E-MAIL: One of the best ways to exchange materials with your remote students is via email. There are options in the First Class Email system that allows you to create folders and have student mail sent directly to that folder. Students can email tests, homework, etc. to you using email. Call IRTS help desk 654-2307 if you would like assistance setting up your email folders. - TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Technical support is available throughout
your class period. Help is stationed nearby in adjoining tech rooms.
Should there be network, pc, operation or other issue during your class
a technician is no further than a phone call away. The ITV classrooms
have a phone and a list of contact numbers which you can use to quickly
get help in the ITV rooms. Where do my materials go when they come back
from the remote site? Materials from the remote sites that are sent via intercampus mail go
directly to the ITV office. If your materials have been sent via
overnight delivery service, they will also be delivered to the ITV
office. Within the ITV main office we maintain a mailbox specifically
for your class. Overnight packages are received in the ITV office at
approximately 10:30 am and 2:30 pm. You have access to this mailbox from
8:00 am until 10:00 pm. Is there any library help for the remote
students? Yes! Jamie Jacks, the Distant Services Library Assistant, is
available to help students at the remote sites search on-line computer
databases, and give them access to document delivery, interlibrary loan
and reference services. I want to show a video. Are there any
copyright issues? In general, there is no issue with copyright infringement in
closed-circuit usage. To determine if your video needs copyright
clearance please see Jamie Jacks. He also handles our copyright
requests. Please meet with Jamie Jacks at least three weeks in advance
so that he may handle your copyright requests in a timely manner. To
read more about copyright please see
the TEACH Act and Copyright Law page. How do I order books at the remote sites? CSUB has contracted with the bookstore at Antelope Valley College to
order books for the students in AV. Please go to
Textbook Ordering Information page for complete details. For students at
other remote sites, textbooks can be purchased through the Runner
bookstore and will be mailed to the student’s home address. How do I put materials on reserve at the
remote sites? Materials can be put on reserve in the technical center in Antelope
Valley. A staff member, Will Collins, maintain a
section for every class offered. To send materials to Will,
bring them by the ITV office and we will send them via overnight
delivery. What if I get sick and can't hold class? No problem! Just let us know. We will let your class at CSUB and at
the remote sites know. ADDITIONAL SERVICES Videotapes are made of all of the classes and put on a 2-hour, 2-week reserve at all of the sites. We don’t publicize this, but we realize that many instructors get requests from students to view the tapes and this is provided as a convenience. Faculty will also have the opportunity to purchase copies of their class tapes at the end of each quarter for $10.00 each. Student Assistants: Budget restrictions have temporarily forced us to cut back on the student assistant help that was originally available in the ITV classrooms free of charge. It is still possible however, to request a student helper through E-Services. If you are interested in having a student assist you during your ITV sessions please call 654-2448 at least four weeks in advance of your class and request help. E-Services will, with the approval of your dean or department chair and the proper account number, provide an assistant and charge your department $8.00 per hour for this service. Digital Services: E-Services has ordered equipment and software that will allow us to record classroom video directly to a digital medium. From that digital video file (AVI format) we can edit a lecture so that segments can be put on a web page for distant learners and web classes. The entire class video can also be transferred to a compact storage medium, like DVD, for archiving, new media, or web-based projects. Eventually this digitized video can be streamed over the internet to home computers using new and innovative software that can adjust the picture quality to suite the bandwidth of the recipient. Fall 2004 this technology will be available in one of our distant
learning studios. As demand grows we will expand this program to the
other studios as needed. For faculty not fortunate enough to be
scheduled into our only digital classroom, "studio time" can be arranged
to digitally record brief lectures for current web-based projects. Here are some contacts that you will need when teaching in ITV:
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