info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (10/04/84)
From: Stuart Reges <REGES@SU-SCORE.ARPA> I would like to hear other people's experiences with the Macintosh in lecture. We are trying to figure out at Stanford how we will display a Mac screen to a large audience. We have several rooms on campus already that are equipped with multiple TV monitors, but we can't use standard monitors. It seems like a big waste of money to buy a special monitor to be locked in a room just for the purpose of Mac demos. That's not a very flexible solution. We've heard from Harvard and Rutgers that they are using MacPascal in their intro courses right now. I'd like to hear about the arrangements you've made to display MacPascal to your students. What are you doing in lecture, how large is the class, and how do you have it set up? We don't have enough Macs floating around that we will be having introductory programming students using the Mac, but the Mac will make a guest appearance in my lectures. I teach introductory Pascal to about 160 undergraduates in a TV classroom. My lecture is being broadcast locally on our instructional television network. Our TV rooms have overhead cameras that zoom in on a pad of paper that the instructor writes on. My current solution is to put my Mac on the desk in front of me (instead of the pad of paper), tip it on its back, and have that overhead camera zoom in on the Mac screen. It seems to be working okay. I usually have them zoom in on about 60% of the screen in order to improve the resolution. I also use the large font in MacPascal to make things more readable. -------
info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (10/05/84)
From: Bob Cralle <cralle@lll-crg.ARPA> Read MacWorld sep/oct p. 74 add Micrograhic Images Corp.