On a tangent, Powerpoint is seriously painful for a distance learning class. To be fair, a person standing at a podium or sitting at a desk and talking into the camera is painful too. The lack of movement is a killer. Think "worst TV program I ever had to watch".
I was filling in at a community college for one of the techs who was running the distance learning classroom for a biology lecture. The person teaching it had the camera pointed at his face while he went on in a monotone lecture voice with small breaks of drawing on an overhead. Everyone in the classroom fell asleep. When he called us asking for questions, I had to mute our mikes and wake people up. I taped the lecture, but would have hated to watch it again.
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On a tangent, Powerpoint is seriously painful for a distance learning class. To be fair, a person standing at a podium or sitting at a desk and talking into the camera is painful too. The lack of movement is a killer. Think "worst TV program I ever had to watch".
I was filling in at a community college for one of the techs who was running the distance learning classroom for a biology lecture. The person teaching it had the camera pointed at his face while he went on in a monotone lecture voice with small breaks of drawing on an overhead. Everyone in the classroom fell asleep. When he called us asking for questions, I had to mute our mikes and wake people up. I taped the lecture, but would have hated to watch it again.