Additional Comments on Equipment Options for
4276ME: Had difficulty with the Overhead Projector location. There is no
enough space in front to locate the overhead for best visibility on the screen.
Suggest to remove the front table from the screen side. Also provide a separate
switch for the light over the screen.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for TH'B: We
need a faster modem in there so that we can display real time video operating
on various media web pages. Especially important for lectures on new media
technology e.g CBC and other news outlets. We could also use an audio tape
player for airing archival radio tapes and interviews.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 501SA:
Above comments reflect current teaching style. If I move toward more use of the
Web in teaching, more equipment will be required.
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Additional Comments on Features for 406DT: (What is
important is to keep the present seminar configuration)
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 211RC:
As this class uses multiple teaching stragegies our top priority for furniture
is the ease with which it can be moved into different configurations.
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Additional Comments on Features for 3190ME: THE ROOM
IS TERRIBLE FOR use of a computer. It is to small- there is no room- we need a
built in computer and screen
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for A720LA: I
teach using multimedia. I have had nine classroom disruptions this year because
of malfunctioning, incomplete or incorrectly configured IMS equipment despite
the fact that I usually have to come in advance to check out the equipment. Our
students expect high tech, not low comedy as the prof fiddles for ten minutes
and then the IMS tech fiddles for another ten minutes. We need permanent
installations in all classrooms where the profs are using multimedia. It seems
to me that, since we probably don't have the money to refurbish them all, we
could poll professors regarding the rooms they are to use next year and make
installations for those classrooms the priority. I had no problems with the
College of the Humanities classroom that I used before Xmas. I think its silly
not to connect the vid proj directly to the computer, and it could use a
wireless mouse BUT the classroom worked pretty well!
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Additional Comments on Features for A715LA: The above
questions are not appropriate for A715LA. This is a seminar room with a large
boardroom table and movable seats.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for A715LA:
The major problem with this classroom is that the air does not circulate and
all term it was too hot. Students were almost passing out and certainly could
not sustain concentration!
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Additional Comments on Features for 3328ME: I would
prefer real desks rather than the tablet arms. There was no podium at all in
the classroom. It was awkward to use the equipment - especially both the
overhead projector and the VCR. The classroom was very dirty.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for A700LA: I
teach using multimedia. I have had nine classroom disruptions this year because
of malfunctioning, incomplete or incorrectly configured IMS equipment despite
the fact that I often come in advance to check out the equipment. Our students
expect high tech, not low comedy as the prof fiddles for ten minutes and then
uses his cellphone to contact the IMS technician who fiddles for another ten
minutes. I had no problems with the College of the Humanities classroom that I
used before Xmas. I think its problematic not to connect the vid proj directly
to the computer, and it could use a wireless mouse BUT the equipment worked
pretty well! My graduate students in A700 finally gave up using PowerPoint for
their presentations when they realized that almost everyone was having problems
with the equipment. They actually prepared PP presentations and then PRINTED
them to handouts of clear media for overhead projectors, rather than take a
chance that their presentations would be disrupted by equipment problems. We
need permanent installations in all classrooms where the profs are using
multimedia. It seems to me that, since we probably don't have the money to
refurbish them all, we could poll professors regarding the rooms they are to
use next year for multimedia and make installations for those classrooms the
priority. Brian
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Additional Comments on Features for 312SC: This room
needs a reliable internet connection, and move the screen to the side wall so
it does not block the blackboard. Now, I project onto the cinder block wall to
I can use the blackboard at the same time as a data projector.
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Additional Comments on Features for 515SA: VCR IS
CRITICAL TO MY CLASSES
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 515SA:
NEED VCR
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 515SA:
CERTAINLY THERE IS A GROWING NEED FOR COMPUTER-BASED PROJECTION EQUIPMENT ON
THIS CAMPUS. THERE IS AN ONGOING STRUGGLE NOW TO GET ACCESS TO THESE ROOMS.
SOMETIMES IN ONE SECTION OF A COURSE I WILL HAVE ACCESS TO AN ELECTRONIC
CLASSROOM AND THEN FOR ANOTHER SECTION OF THE SAME COURSE, I WILL NOT. THIS
MEANS STUDENTS GET A DIFFERENT CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE BASED ON THE SECTION THEY
ATTEND, YET THEY HAVE A COMMON EXAM. IT'S ALSO A STRAIN BECAUSE I HAVE TO
PREPARE DIFFERENT CLASSROOM MATERIALS FOR THE TWO ENVIRONMENTS. LUGGING THE
HEAVY VCR AROUND THIS CAMPUS IS JUST NOT POSSIBLE FOR ME AND IS A HUGE WASTE OF
TIME. IT IS DANGEROUS TO STUDENTS AND FACULTY ALIKE. THE EQUIPMENT WEIGHS AS
MUCH AS I DO, SO GETTING IT UP AND DOWN RAMPED HALLWAYS IS UNWORKABLE.
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Additional Comments on Features for A620LA: Lighting
control is an issue in this classroom. There are 2 possibilities currently, on
or off! Makes it impossible to follow links on the course web page, or use
info. posted on the web page because the room must be totally dark. This does
not allow students the opportunity to take notes. Otherwise, if lights are on,
they cannot see the images on the screen. More comfortable chairs would be
helpful. As would sending in the cleaning staff. The room is filthy.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for C264LA:
I do in-class demos with models and doo-dahs
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 261TB:
This is a terrible class room. The physical structure of the classroom only
allows for the traditional lecture delivery mode of instruction. I have tried
to have students break into "buzz groups" but the anchored seats make
that difficult. The long narrow classroom makes connecting with students at the
back of the classroom impossible, unless I ignore students at the front of the
room by teaching half way down the aisle. The classroom with just one centre
aisle made the use of the technology trolley impossible. Students at the back
require the installation of a microphone and speaker which I am forced to bring
and set up at the beginning of every class (usually result is we begin lecture
late!). Trying to get the students engaged in discussion is difficult as the
people at the back can't hear what the people at the front say, and vice versa!
The classroom is littered with garbage on Friday a.m. and it is dusty and
dirty.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 332TB:
I would have liked to do in-class web exercises had computer facilities been
available. Ideally, I'd like to use a wired classroom for this course.
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Additional Comments on Features for 2000MC: I use an
overhead projector . The ready availability of CLEAN unused acrylic rolls is
most important to me. (These were lacking more than once.)
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 408SA: I
use this room for a seminar only. The chalkboard is dented and should be
replaced.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 415SA:
I lecture for the first half of the class and then demonstrate data analysis
using SPSS on the data projector for the second part.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 415SA:
Would the wireless mouse get stolen (not by me.)?
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 3275ME:
Chalk should be amply supplied ALWAYS. There should be more than one chalk
eraser. The chalkboards should be cleaned frequently. There should be room at
the bottom of the chalkboard for the chalk erasers - at present, only the end
boards have this. The result is the eraser is often left on the table, which
gets very dirty. Books, briefcases and clothes get covered with chalk dust.
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Additional Comments on Features for 311SC: The current
sytem is acceptable. Some of the questions above seem irrelevant to the current
setup
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Additional Comments on Features for A609LA: Remove
outdated equipment such as chained overhead projectors. They get in the way.
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Additional Comments on Features for 1006DT: This is a
small seminar room. None of the above issues are relevant.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 509ADT:
This room is often in aterrible state when I arrive for my lecture. The chairs
and tables are 'all over the place' .. the temperature is often far too high ,,
the lectern (which I like to use) is usually 'missing' ..
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Additional Comments on Features for C164LA: The
lecture course is quite low-tech: relying on face to face delivery and
interaction, and a chalk board to organize and record the main points. The
general configuation of the room is fine -- horse-shoe shape and stadium
seating. However: a)the lighting is bad, b)the seating is cramped and
uncomfortable (especially for anyone taller than 5'), c)the
heating/cooling/ventilation is poor, and d)the overall impression is dingy.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for C164LA:
See above
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Additional Comments on Features for D880LA: Air less
and window less and derilect in appearance. Perpetually without chalk.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for D880LA:
lectures and seminar presentations
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Additional Comments on Features for B146LA: (This room
has fixed chairs but there always are 6-8 extra chairs cluttering up the front
of the room; they should be removed.)
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for B146LA:
(fix the movie screen so that it will stay down when needed)
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Additional Comments on Features for A620LA: It's an
awful room. Many categories in your question do not apply.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 3356ME:
The question is what would I like to do, if it were physically possible.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 3356ME:
This course involves students in ID, Arch and Sociology. Anything that enhanced
the graphic capabilities would advance the benefit of the course.
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Additional Comments on Features for 343TB: 343 is too
small for a class of 22. It feels too cramped. It would be ok for a class of
15. Also, there is a VERY noisy generator near the room making it difficult to
hear when it kicks on. Finally, the heat/cold seems very
unpredictable...students complain.
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Additional Comments on Features for A200LA: A200 is
not a classroom. It is a geography lab with computer workstations.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for A200LA:
This lab is equipped with computer workstations (a Geography Dep't expense
since it is a Geography lab - they need upgrading). It has a whiteboard for
demonstrating and instructing. It needs better lighting, better chairs, and a
permanently-installed data projector.
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Additional Comments on Features for 413SA: 413SA has
fixed seating at bench tables with a centre aisle. It is very tight. It is good
for lectures to a group of 20-45 people, for viewing video, computer projection
and the chalk board. It is poorly ventilated (or at least, we found it that
way, since we were using it for 3 hours immediately after another class had
been in it). The windows do open, but students near the windows are too cold in
winter if the windows are kept open. The room is not good for seminars,
workshops, group work, discussions, etc.... the seating is not flexible.
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Additional Comments on Features for TH'A: this room
needs permenant electronic console like the Bell theatre and several other
rooms on campus.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for TH'A:
This room should be outfitted with an electronic console like several other
rooms on campus (e.g. 5050MC).
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Additional Comments on Features for 236PA: This
classroom needs good curtains for afternoon class, because we always use
overhead projector. Also, two levels of light would be much better.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 236PA:
Overhead projector in this classroom for 49320 course is the most important
equipment.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 310SC: It
surely would be nice to have this room outfitted with an electronic console
like there is in 5050MC -- would make a big, big difference in my graphics
lectures. Malcolm Bibby
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for D495LA:
Overhead projector is the most important equipment for the course in this
classroom.
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Additional Comments on Features for 410DT: Informal
seminar seating is fine for this course. Overhead projector has been essential
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 410DT: I
have not used computers in the classroom but I could well, with a network
connection and a data projector.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 304SC:
This is a chemistry lab! None of the above applies.
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Additional Comments on Features for B442LA: Bad room -
heating/cooling doesn't work, insufficient lighting, all present suffer.
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Additional Comments on Features for 415SA: Console too
big, restricts access/movement
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 1006DT:
this room (1006dt is quite poor as a cclass room. No windoiws, bad ventilation
(or noisey ventilation). Small boards.
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Additional Comments on Features for 417SA: The
acoustics are extremely difficult to cope with. I cannot hear my students'
questions, and students have difficulty seeing my data displays. I use a data
projector beamed onto the blackboard because the screen at an angle makes the
display crooked and difficult to read from a distance.
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Additional Comments on Features for 401DT: all
sections of the course are taught as workshop/case study/seminar classes. This
is a technical writing course compulsory for all Carleton engineering students,
which results in approximately 350 students enrolled in h term. We desperately
need room with movable chairs and tables (or hourse shoe tables like in room
201 PA), computers and data projectors, overhead projectors, chaulk boards and
good lights. Stationary furniture or chairs with tablets are the worst possible
furniture for such courses.
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Additional Comments on Features for 211RC: I like the
tables for the students, as opposed to chairs with side tablets. The students
have to take quite a few notes, and are more comfortable with tables than with
fixed chairs/side tablets.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 211RC:
The blackboards in 211 RC are excellent for my style of teaching, which
involves a lot of mathematical developments and problem solving on the
blackboard. I also use the screen and overhead projector simultaneaously with
the blackboard quite a bit. An inconvenience with the the screen is that when
it is down, it blocks off the two center segments of the blackboard. It would
be an improvement if there was a second screen off to the side, slant mounted,
as there is in many of the rooms in Mackenzie. I also like the shape of the
room as all students are fairly close to the blackboard and screen.
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Additional Comments on Features for A609LA: The room
is scruffy, needs new curtains and new furniture.
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Additional Comments on Features for 273TB: The room is
narrow and long making it difficult for students at the back to a) see videos
and projections b) engage in discussions with those at the front.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 273TB:
Given the shape of the room it might be useful to have a a second screen for
students at the back.
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Additional Comments on Features for 273TB: The room is
narrow and long making it difficult for students at the back to a) see videos
and projections b) engage in discussions with those at the front.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 273TB:
Given the shape of the room it might be useful to have a a second screen for
students at the back.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for B146LA:
Used a portable computer and data projection systems in this room. The network
connection did not work and running files from floppy disks was very slow.
Also, the screen is covering a large part of the blackboard, making the use of
both at the same time quite difficult.
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Additional Comments on Features for 405DT: This
classroom is filthy; noisy (the walls have little soundproofing); ugly; the
lighting is harsh and unpleasant; the furniture is unpleasant.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 405DT:
I would avoid teaching in this room ever again. It's not its lack of
'technology': it's the noise; the dreariness; the dirt.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 405DT:
There is a TV monitor in the room. I did show two films to this class. I
refrained from showing them in this classroom however, because the walls are so
thin that I knew it would disrupt the class next door. Instead we used another
room. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THAT THE BASIC EQUIPMENT MOST OF US NEED IS A QUIET
ROOM WITH AIR IN IT (FORGOT TO MENTION THAT: THESE ROOMS ARE STUFFY, AIRLESS,
SOMETIMES HOT, SOMETIEMS COLD; PROPER CHAIRS FOR THE STUDENT. I LIKE A LECTERN:
THERE IS ONE LECTERN FOR THE 4 CLASSROOMS ON DUNTON 4. I ASKED FOR ONE THREE
TIMES, AND THEN GAVE UP.
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Additional Comments on Features for B454LA: I didn't
have enough table space for all my students, so some had to take notes from
clipboards.
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Additional Comments on Features for 401DT: There are
too many long tables. A mix of these and some half the length would make it
easier to move them to use the overhead projector or make discussion more
intimate. (Overhead projector has to be put near the middle of the room, but
the long tables are always arranged in a closed rectangle with the overhead in
the corner of the room.)
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 401DT: I
have a web site for the course. It would be nice to be able to use it in the
classroom.
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Additional Comments on Features for 281TB: Furniture
in this room is often broken. Regular checks should be done and repairs carried
out.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 281TB:
This course has a large web site. I would very much like to be able to use the
web site in this classroom. Overall, we need some classrooms in the 40-65 seat
range that have computers. 281TB also needs to have either a second blackboard
or to have the screen somewhere else. It is impossible to use the overhead
projector and the blackboard at the same time: this is something profs almost
always want to do.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 281TB: I
have taught in this classroom every term (Fall, Winter and Summer) for years. I
use the web in all of my courses. Please, let's get it set up so that I can use
the web in the classroom!
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Additional Comments on Features for 310SC: Difficult
to write on certain parts of the blackboard.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for B149LA:
Difficult to write on certain parts of the blackboard.
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Additional Comments on Features for 273TB: Filthy,
rundown, temperature regulation terrible.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 409SA:
electronic whiteboard is preferable to chalkboard. Whatever is there, try to
make sure it works ALWAYS
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Additional Comments on Features for A900LA: As it is
now, there are roughly 100 moveable chairs, without arms. As the room is
multi-purpose, catering to classes, workshops, rehearsals, concerts, auditions,
exams, etc., we have to get Buildings and Grounds crews up several times a week
to reorganize furniture. We would like to replace the current chairs with
moveable "wing-type" chairs to reduce our dependency on B & G.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for A900LA:
It has always been a dedicated room for Music and should remain so.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for A900LA:
Sound system and video are most important. Laserdisk capability would be
welcome.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 410DT :
Since this is a seminar, I basically need tables and chairs with electrical
outlets,
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Additional Comments on Features for 492TB: #12 - I
have no need at the moment, but the need may well appear as laptops drop in
price for students (or become available from the University?) and the dominance
of Powerpoint-based teaching increases. #5 & 6 - The main advantage of
movable tables and chairs is that the chairs can be positioned for the comfort
of the student. Chairs attached to tables are often not suitable for the
taller/larger student.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 492TB:
The "?" marks indicate either that I myself do not have the requisite
technology, e.g. laptop, which would make the feature useful, or that teaching
materials requiring that technology, e.g. DVD have not yet entered my teaching
area. If either situation were to change, however, I would predict the level of
use indicated.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 236PA:
Please - maintain flexibility in making changes - there is nothing worse than
fixed furniture and lighting arrangments. Thank.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for B342LA:
Please - put back the chalkboard and a BIG Bulletin board for maps!! Thanks!
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for B342LA:
Please - maintain flexible furniture options, re-install the chalkboard and a
BIG bulletin board for maps, etc. Thanks.
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Additional Comments on Features for 103SC: It is a BAD
idea to have a network connection at student's seats. I guarantee with the
ability to access internet during class, many students will missuse this
feature and not pay attention in the classroom. It could only harm them.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 103SC: I
think it is important to have a phone connected (as we have now) so that we can
call IMS for help. A re-occuring problem in this room is that the projector on
the ceiling gets into an un-usuable state and we have to call IMS to have
someone come and reset it with a remote. Perhaps have the remote kept in the
cabinet.
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Additional Comments on Features for 3380ME: Please, no
network connection at student seats...it will only distract them.
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Additional Comments on Features for 509ADT: Inadequate
tables and chairs for enrolment in course. Usually very dirty and left in
disorderly mess by Friday
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for A931LA:
Cassette and reel-to-reel playback, phonograph turntable, stereo receiver and a
piano are also necessary.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for A900LA:
Cassette and reel-to-reel playback, phonograph turntable, stereo receiver and a
piano are also necessary.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for A900LA:
Cassette and reel-to-reel playback, phonograph turntable, stereo receiver and a
piano are also necessary.
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Additional Comments on Features for 410DT: We do much
group work with student movement required. 410DT is very suitable because of
its moveable tables and chairs and sufficient space around them.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 410DT:
The electrical outlets appear dangerous, although they do work.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 3190ME:
I would prefer a classroom that has tables and chairs that can be reconfigured
as needed. I have three workshop sessions that require students to work in
groups with documents, and this would be better than the seats with writing
tablets. I prefer to have the overhead screen at the front rather than in the
corner as I use it more than I use the blackboard. I write words and phrases on
the blackboard beyond the area covered by the central screen.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 3190ME: I
bring in my own cassette recorder for a couple of classes. I note that isn't
one of your options above. I use overhead projector every week; at some point I
might switch to a computer for graphics and illustrations, but would need
assurance of it always being available (i.e. every year course is taught)
before converting to this format. We have used the videoconferencing room, 617
Southam, twice this term to connect with a class in Northern Ireland. I plan to
do more of this in future, i.e. next year.
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Additional Comments on Features for 211RC: My only
problem with this very pleasant room for language classes is that I can't get
audio & video equipment there except very rarely. Why on earth we can't use
equipment from St Pat's is beyond my comprehension - it's right beside Res Com!
Can we afford to jealously guard our meagre resources in our little corners of
this university?
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 211RC:
Important to have moveable seats for language classes.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 211RC:
See above- problem of NO access to video/audio equipment most of the time.
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Additional Comments on Features for 112PA: A good room
for equipment for language classes, but hot & stuffy.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 112PA:
Some chalkboards in the basement rooms of Paterson are in desperate need of
replacement- they look like postwar artifacts (that have been bombed)
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Additional Comments on Features for 343TB: The room is
shabby and has bad temperature control problems.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 343TB:
We did a great deal of group work requiring moving around ... 23 people.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 343TB:
Audiovisual resources like VCR and audiotape player.
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Additional Comments on Features for B249LA: The only
problem in this room is that it is often dirty.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for B249LA:
This room is next to IMS. However, as I've repeated in each of these surveys,
we need audio & video equipment for language classes, as well as moveable
seating.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 4499ME: A
lot of this stuff seems very expensive and high powered. The first row of seats
in 4499ME makes it difficult to properly position the overhead on the side
screen. Repositioning 2 or 3 seats would be much more helpful to me than having
a network connection.
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Additional Comments on Features for 3475ME: Room
3475ME is a design studio and none of the questions apply. For 2 full days per
week we work with students in the teaching and simulation of all phase of
industrial design activities. Desks are assigned to students with partitions
and storage boxes which are arranged by students. We variously use video, LCD
projection of digital video, slide projection overhead transparencies and the
always valuable blackboard.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 624SA:
Too large a class for anything but lectures.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 624SA: I
need a chalkboard plus either an overhead projector or a data
projector/computer; I can go either way. If its the TV section, its need to
work for that too.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 103SC:The
document cameras and monitors should be available in all of the larger
classrooms, particularly those used for science classes. They are ideal for
show & tell of materials that are only visible to the front row. Also, for
those of us that like to be interactive, it is a fine way to write without
using the chalkboard. It allows one to face the students while writing and
speaking and also avoids the dreaded chalk dust.
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Additional Comments on Features for 492TB:There is a
two-step riser/platform for the instructor to stand on in 492TB. Because the
students are all on a single lower level, it is important to be able to move
any furniture/podium etc. that gets in the line of sight when using the central
screen. The two steps are only on the side of the platform that is adjacent to
the entrance, the rest is a single, excessively large step. In order to run the
over head projector which has to be off of and below the podium for optimum
size and focus, the instructor has to jump up and down this large step. The
system is very awkward.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for
492TB:This room would benefit greatly from a document camera and monitor
as well as a raised corner screen.
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Additional Comments on Features for 236PA: It was
continually too hot and the thermostad did not work.
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Additional Comments on Features for 3190ME: This room
has a harsh mechanical buzz in the background that renders it unsuitable for
classroom use.
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Additional Comments on Features for D580LA: Re #13:
two-tiered lighting facilitates simultaneous use of overhead and note-taking
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Additional Comments on Features for 509ADT: Re #13:
two-tiered lighting facilitates simultaneous use of overhead and note-taking
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 3120HP:
just make sure to support not only Windows but also Mac OS.
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Additional Comments on Features for 506SA: I'm not
sure what you mean by tablet arms (we have a mix of regular chairs in there) or
bench (attached to chairs?)--in which case these are anathema to my kind of
teaching which requires mobility and group work (which shifts in participants
and seating arrangments)
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 506SA:
Actually, if I had a choice, I'd probably stick to this room since it offers
the most flexibility of the rooms in Southam. If only the furniture could be
improved (consistent) and more chairs could be added. A VCR would be a
wonderful addition since it's so hard to get the equipment up the elevator,
even though IMS is just a short tunnel away.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 506SA: A
VCR PLEASE!
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Additional Comments on Features for 111PA: The
arrangement of tablet chairs is totally useless for students who need to write
and work with paper and other resources in groups. On the other hand, at least
the chairs are mobile and group work is possible.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 111PA:
The course is not teacher-centred, so student flexibility and mobility is
crucial.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 111PA: A
VCR which works EASILY would be nice. The one in there seems to follow its own
instructions.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 509SA:
The pricipal use of 509SA is to have students access the web, where passworded
web pages report back to them about how they did on their last asignment. They
then use the computer to send in their next input.
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Additional Comments on Features for D495LA: The room
has a central table with seats around. This is ideal for the type of
discussions involved in the course.
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Additional Comments on Features for 310SC: DESKS are
what are really needed - not just tablet arms. If this is what you mean by
"bench tables" please substitute this for my answer. It is highly
undesirable to make students write tests when the only space available to them
is a tablet arm.
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Ideally, I would like to see an electronic classroom set up for 30 students
with very flexible seating arrangement. I have been forced into using 415
Southam because it is one of the smallest electronic classrooms available, but
the seating arrangements are far from ideal for the format of the course
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 3165ME:
Please make sure that overhead projectors are in good working condition
including light bulbs
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 212RC:
Please make sure that overhead projectors are in good working condition
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Additional Comments on Features for 406SA: The room
should retain its movable furniture. However, a few desks should be removed
from the room to enable moving the overhead projector out of the way when it is
not being used and to facilitate access to the blackboard (I have had always to
move some desks, often into the hallway to be able to have full access to the
blackboard and create room to store the overhead). The blackboard is quite good
and of good size too. The room has bad acoustics (echo).
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 406SA:
Movable furniture is essential for group (tutorial) work and greatly
facilitates conducting in-class tests.
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Additional Comments on Features for 415SA: This room
is very poorly arranged for my purposes. The fixed tables mean I can't conduct
seminar discussions (which are an integral part of the course). The
instructor's table is in the way, so students cannot see the bottom of the
screen. I had to remake all my PowerPoint slides so as not to use the bottom
third of the screen area, and when I showed videos with subtitles, the students
couldn't read the subtitles. I also use an overhead projector, and there is
only one screen in the room, so I couldn't use computer projection and the
overhead at the same time. Furthermore, the overhead projector cannot be placed
properly in relation to the screen, so the image is distorted - a real problem
when I was showing maps.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 516SA:
We did a number of small group breakouts into the hallway, and into other
unoccupied classrooms.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 516SA: A
good quality big sized television and VCR is essential for my teaching.
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Additional Comments on Features for 509ADT: This room
is in dire need of upgrading. The furniture in the room looks like cast-offs
from a church basement.
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Additional Comments on Features for TH'B: The
blackboard area is well lit, but the students sit in semi-darkness.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for TH'B: The
blackboard needs improvements. The one currently installed requires a lot of
brute force to slide it up and down. Moreover, its shakes and rattles when you
write on it (don't use the microphone at the same time). Perhaps, since there
is enough space in front of the room, it would be possible to install another
blackboard. The total blackboard area is small for the size of the room.
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Additional Comments on Features for 4236ME: The
seating in this room was recently converted to bench seating which is an
improvement over the single chairs. However, for some reason there is
extraneous pieces of furniture at the front which make it difficult to arrange
the screen and projection devices. This is a room that I use with overhead/data
projector/slide projector/VCR, sometime simultaneously. I have guest lecturers
who bring in various media and it is important that most of this equipment is
available in the classroom. Right now I am only assured of an overhead
projector and spend inordinate amounts of time arranging for and carting
equipment to/from the room.
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Additional Comments on Features for 4332ME: too hot
most of the time, fortunatley the windows open very crowded atfornt with Tv/vcr
and overhead
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 210RC: I
don't know how to use most of these things & there is little support to
actually teach me. Some vague instruction is not useful. But delivering my own
VCR/TV is awful. It weighs more than I do!
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 436PA:
This might mean more to me if I had more support to learn how to use
technologies.
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Additional Comments on Features for 3356ME: Currently
has tables and chairs and this is the best format for mathematics classes.
Often there was no chalk available and I had to go hunt for it!
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Additional Comments on Features for 416SA: I found
that some people could not either hear me very well or see what I was writing
on the chalkboard from the back of 416SA. The one thing that I found to be very
big problem in this room was the size of the screen at the front of the room. I
like to complement my overhead notes by simultaneously adding notes on the
chalk board. However,once the screen is down there is very little (usable)
chalkboard space left.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 4499ME:
The course has mostly GUEST LECTURERS FROM OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY. It is
important that it have good A-V facilities.
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Additional Comments on Features for 3269ME: Most of
the questions do not apply to this room. It is an awful room to teach in
because the overhead projector cannot be located properly vis a vis the screen
(you'd have to remove the first row of seats and sit it in the lap of students
in the second row), the screen is too low, pillars in the room interfere with
visual access, no equipment like a projector can be used as there is no centre
isle, the long rows with no centre isle make it very disruptive if anyone needs
to get in or out and with no windows it is a generally dreary environment.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 3269ME:
The long rows and crowded situation make it difficult to do anything but
lecture.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for
C164LA:Some way of displaying/pinning up graphic boards
(20"x30") would be useful, especially if they can be well lit.
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Additional Comments on Features for B342LA: As it is
used mostly for graduate teaching and teaching is seminar based, computer
projection equipment is badly needed. All student seminars (17 in 2001) were
powerpoint based. Booking computer projectors through Media Services just isn't
satisfactory due to lack of availability of equipment and need to transport it
each week. Better ventilation is definitely needed in B342. It becomes really
dank and smelly after a couple of hours and is booked solid so by the end of
the day it is essentially unbearable and probably hazardous. Lighting must be
adjustable as dim lights are needed in back when projectors used with darkness
in front.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for B342LA:
Small classes, therefore seminars and discussions work well. Need good display
capabilities as much of 583 is visual with graphics and images.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for B342LA:
23 - computer and monitor checked as 'important because it's assumed the
computer is needed for the data projector checked in 22. CD reader in 29
checked as 'important' because assumed part of computer in 23 so presentations
can be given from CD.
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Additional Comments on Features for B149LA: Regular
desks and not chairs with arms are needed because students have a lot of
material to look at on their desks. Lighting needs to be adjustable so dim in
back for writing and dark in front for screen display. Packing desks in is not
suitable. There are far too many for this room and they are often pushed
against one another making it difficult to maneuver.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for B149LA:
Student presentations are mixed in with course lectures.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for B149LA: I
currently teach in B149 using overheads created in powerpoint with graphics
inserted. I WOULD teach with a computer projector if one existed (Media
Services borrowing for each class is simply a hassle - never available, not
enough staff resources, have to boot up and boot up is slow because the
computers are so slow, computer power limited so graphics very slow, etc. I
would also teach using web resources in real-time (instead of copying to CD and
then loading) if a connection was present. In short, with so few wired
classrooms on campus, and most highly coveted, I am waiting for some more
improvements to be made.
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Additional Comments on Features for 300SP: The lab is
currently set up with computers facing both ways along two long tables
stretching away from the front of the room, separated by a central aisle. This
was apparently the only way this number of computers could be arranged within
that space without them being in rows across the room. However, an ideal
arrangement would be for the computers to be arranged so they are facing in
from the walls in a large horseshoe that opens on the front of the room. The
sides and back of this could be made using shallow curves to increase the
number of machines which can be accommodated, perhaps. Much of the teaching in
reporting classes doesn't involve using the computers at all, but rather facing
the front for lectures or discussions. The current arrangement means the outer
computer screens are out of the instructors line of sight (leading to some
misuse by students during lectures -- e-mail checking, etc) and students are
separated from each other by tall walls of machines. The network/power
question, above, is open to misundertstanding in the context of this room; by
saying it is important, I'm merely confirming we need the existing computers at
each student's workstation. I am not agreeing we need connections for laptops
they might bring in. Frankly, having them use standardized equipment and
interfaces makes better sense than having to lose time while Student A moves
around the room trying to find a connection that works and then tries to figure
out how to access programs using their laptop's unique configuration.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 300SP:
The arrangement of the room, as noted above, makes lecturing and discussion
work bothersome. About the only thing the current configuration fits is the
small portion of the year when students work in teams to produce publications
in a workshop style. In this exercise (three weeks out of 24) the students
divide into two groups and each group gets a double-sided row of computers. For
the rest of the year, the room's arrangement is annoying and interferes with
effective teaching.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 300SP: As
I said on the previous installment of the survey on general needs, these rooms
would be improved greatly with the addition of a simple-to-use permanent
projector for the computer system. A permanent setup for playing audio (CD with
an option to also plug in a cassette machine) would be useful, too. However, as
I stressed in the previous survey and have alluded to above RE room
arrangement, it is crucial that consultation on any sorts of changes be done
with the specific people who USE these rooms on a regular basis, not just
SOMEONE in the department. As well, this consultation should be with ALL those
who use them, not just a single designated person who may think they know their
colleague's wishes/need. It is a mistake to leave completely to the department
the onus for ensuring actual users of a facility are involved in discussing
what is required.
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Additional Comments on Features for 505SA: Install
blinds to improve visibility of the screen projections. Existing blinds don't
work too well on bright days.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 505SA: I
have used portable data projector and a laptop. The power cables were in
students and my way, resulting at times in precarious situations. Also, there
was a problem with placement of the data projector. Installation of permannetly
fixed data projector would be the highest priority.
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Additional Comments on Features for 290TB: This
classroom is inadequate for my course. I need three widths of blackboard space
and it only has two. The screen for the overhead projector is so large that it
is not possible to use transparencies along with the board space - the screen
covers all but a narrow width of the board on each side. I was unable to secure
a more appropriate room when I tried due to the heavy booking of classrooms.
Dunton 406, for instance, is an appropriate room with adequate board space.
Some of the rooms in Dunton are also inadequate because the students really
need a table or desk to write on, not just the little tablet arms.
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Additional Comments on Features for C264LA: I like
teaching in c264. None of the students seem too far away and itv-related
technologies (e.g., overhead camera) are great.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for 246PA:
Flexible seating is crucial.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 246PA:
All questions answered in terms of CURRENT teaching practice.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 401DT:
All questions answered in terms of CURRENT teaching practice.
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Additional Comments on Features for B149LA: Rooms with
moveable furniture are essential for the kind of teaching I do which employs a
lot of group work. This also, however, places additional duties on building
staff to ensure that the room is consistent arranged. When my students move the
furniture, I ask them to return it to its original configuration but this does
not always happen. This year I had a seating plan for my students based on a
7-row configuration and then came to class one week where there was a 6-row
configuration. This inhibits my ability to accurately assess classroom
participation in such a large group when people are moving around to different
locations all the time.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for B149LA:
I use experiential exercises which differ greatly from one week to another. One
week I might have them playing a sort of card tournament, the next week posting
poster around the room. I need flexibility.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for B149LA:
The value of various options will change with their availability. For instance
my laptop computer is too old to interface with most data projectors but if
data projectors were installed in all of the classrooms I use then I would be
highly motivated to get a new laptop to take advantage of the equipment.
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Additional Comments on Features for 2A46PA: Most of
the above questions are not relevant to a seminar room - which we upgraded last
summer.
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Additional Comments on Features for 100SP: My choice
of needed features depends on which mode of teaching strategy I am using. I
like to use group work and have the students actually work on an activity so it
is more than turn to your neighbour. In other words moveable tables and chairs
would be the preferred. But if I can't have that, then at least having writing
tablets are critical.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 100SP: I
would really like to be able to project and write on the projected image at the
same time. Projecting onto a whiteboard concept. I often want to highlight or
add to things on the screen.
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 415SA: If
I had a document camera, then I wouldn't need the overhead projector. Would
prefer document camera because then I could bring in pictures/magazines and
show things directly to my students.
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Additional Comments on Teaching Strategies for C560LA:
Lecture was rare. the other format were more common. The room sucks - bare
brick walls, no windows.
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Additional Comments on Features for 115PA: What is
really needed is small tables to seat up to 5 students
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Additional Comments on Equipment Options for 210RC:
Decent sound and decent video very important for language teaching.
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