system brings csun classes to ventura : education: newly installed two-way interactive video allows instructors and students to take part in give and take. - cameras in classrooms

Officials at the State University of California at North Ridge announced on Monday the technological innovation at their Ventura campus ---
They don't have to come here to do it.
CSUN officials present an interactive TV system in a classroom in North Ridge that will enable Ventura students to attend classes at CSUN without having to trek to the San Fernando Valley.
Although the TV has been in use in the classroom for many years, the new system provides two
How to communicate: send real-time images and sounds to both locations at the same time. Using a hand-held remote-
Control equipment, a lecturer in Beiling can operate two cameras in his classroom and two cameras in Ventura classroom to enlarge the information on the student or blackboard.
The overhead microphone delivers sound.
"I will be able to see the students, talk to them and call them by name," said Robert M . "
Harf, health science lecturer.
"The neat thing is that students in each classroom can communicate with each other.
"At the beginning of the Ventura fall semester next Monday, the new system will be used for at least one psychology class and two health science classes.
No technology, psychology. -
Consultation and interview-
Because the coach is in the north ridge, it will not be provided.
Through interactive video, students on the satellite campus can choose from any of CSUN's courses and lecturers.
College administrators say they will initially offer highly interested courses among Ventura campus students.
"It's a problem to get the instructor up," Harf said . ".
"Now we can take classes that we can't take before.
"This is exactly what the Ventura campus needs," officials said.
"Given the reduction in resources and the increase in the number of students who need to serve, this will prove to be a godsend," said Joyce Kennedy, director of Ventura campus ,", about 1,300 students are expected to be enrolled this fall.
The system uses a $35,000 digital synthesizer to transmit over a telephone line instead of a cable to generate a high
Side resolution imageby-
Side monitors are available in each classroom.
Officials say the total cost of equipping a classroom is about $65,000.
"Fortunately, it's not us that CSUN pays," Kennedy said . ".
"We have no money.
"It took CSUN about 18 months to develop the system, the eighth such system in Cal State University.
CSUN officials believe that there is nothing teachers can do in two ways in traditional classrooms --
The video includes naming, answering questions and calling on students to give speeches.
"It was a great experience for me," CSUN President Brenda J.
Wilson showed the devices to Ventura's audience on television.
"We have been trying to bring education, current affairs and students to US at a cost --effective way.
"Some students may have some time to adjust before they get used to the system," the official said.
During the presentation, the sound sometimes becomes weak when the speaker leaves the microphone, and the image occasionally loses focus.
Television is also accompanied by a universal sense of detachment.
"Before the adjustment, students may feel a little uncomfortable in the first few weeks," Huff said . ".
"They may be a little scared.
"Kennedy wants some students to be shy in front of the camera and not talk loudly.
"But once the ice is broken, the decibel will rise and there will be more friendships," she said . ".
"I hope that our students will be a pioneer in helping us solve any problem.
"Huff will teach his class in Ventura and teleport it back to Beiling, and he has seen a problem: Blind Spots will keep the lazy from being detected by TV cameras.
"I may have to rearrange the room," he said . "