Unfortunately these static broadcasts were not well received by off-campus students. When I went to a training session and observed the latest and greatest technology, the camera was on the professor, and it occasionally showed her notes. I can't teach like that. I need to walk around, and the students need to be able to move chairs and talk with each other. I believe teaching is 10 percent content and 90 percent engagement.
Students have to be energized.
I cheerlead, motivate, encourage, challenge, and argue. I do whatever I can to get folks heated up about the topic. The last thing students want me to do is read the book to them. The Industrial Technology staff at Illinois State set up a new kind of high-technology classroom in the lower level of DeGarmo Hall. Lights and microphones are suspended above desks in the DeGarmo classroom so students can be seen and heard from anywhere.