Below is a list of things that instructors should keep in mind when creating an ITV class.
Courses delivered via media technologies are becoming more common in the University system.
Interactive Television (ITV) makes it possible to link two (or more) electronic classrooms that may be hundreds of miles apart and create one classroom environment.
When you walk into the class you will see cameras, television monitors and microphones. All this technology is remote controlled and allows everyone in one location to see and hear everyone in the other location (or locations).
There are a few small ways in which interactive television classes are different from the classroom situations to which we are most accustomed. This booklet will give you a handful of guidelines that will make your electronic classroom experience more productive and pleasurable.
In order to make participation easier, you should know that there is a delay between the time you ask or answer a question and the time that the next person will speak. You can usually expect a delay of three seconds, so don't worry if the response is a little slower than you expect. Because you might be addressing more than one classroom, it would be helpful to allot slightly more time for questions, comments, and general discussions.
For best results, do not use transparencies (too much glare for cameras). You can instead use a paper copy (pale blue is best), printed in "landscape" format ("sideways" on an 8 1/2" X 11" letter size piece of paper). When preparing your overheads, keep these rules in mind:
Your 35mm slides may work in the ITV classrooms. Check ahead with the available support staff.
Computer presentations and connections are possible in most ITV classrooms with advance notification. You will need to make arrangements with the support staff. The rules for overheads also apply to computer presentations.
You can use videotapes in ITV courses just like in a traditional classroom. The operator in the classroom will assist with this; please have the cueing numbers for the sequences that you want to use.
Teaching over the Interactive Television Network is not considered face-to-face teaching under the current copyright law. Therefore your ability to use works without the copyright owner's permission is more limited.
Use of the ITV Network is considered a transmission; therefore, stringent copyright rules apply to any handouts or graphics.
The following exemption to the copyright owner's exclusive right to perform or display a work publicly allows an educator to perform a non-dramatic literary or musical work or to display a work by or in the course of transmission if the following criteria are all met:
Nondramatic works include works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and texts. This presupposes that the copy of the work being displayed or performed is a lawfully made copy and was not made in violation of the copyright law. Unlike face-to-face teaching, this exception does not extend to the performance of dramatic works or the showing of motion pictures or videos, for example. Moreover, the performance or display must be for educational and not entertainment or other purposes. Here is a sample letter to assist you in obtaining copyright permission
