TU4022--Telecommunications, Distance Learning, and Collaborative Interchange (3)

Teachers College, Columbia University
Fall Term 1995

September 12 -- Introduction

Lecture:

• Introduction
• Completion of student biographies.
• The impact of telecommunications on education
• Present video assignment--to come up with major characteristics of video/film medium in non-interactive mode and identify advantages and disadvantages: A&E Biography, sports (NETWORK OR ESPN), MTV, CNN.
• Internet ID review and creation process.
• Personal web page discussion (time permitting).

View Exemplary Video:

• Blue Planet   Unique visual perspective and time capture
• Americas   Expert discussants (overpopulation - Canada)
• Treasure Island   Sequential mode
• Kobe Quake   Timeliness
• Triumph of the Will   Perspective, best speaker/presenter for position