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Interactive Presentation Support for an Electronic Lecture Hall - a practice report

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"Electronic lecture halls" or (electronic) "teaching theaters" have been installed in many places world-wide. Usually, it is suggested that these be used for "multimedia-supported" teaching or for tele-learning scenarios including the broadcasting of lectures and communication with remote lecturers. However, in our current practice of non-distance or campus universities this is yet a rare scenario. This paper reports practical experience of using interactive presentation equipment in standard, single-site undergraduate computer science lectures. The problem with typical electronic presentations, as with transparencies, is that they tend to result in using ready-made presentations instead of facilitating the free elaboration of ideas and development of models as it used to be done on the traditional chalkboard. So, our aim is to gracefully integrate interactive whiteboards and pen-based input with the presentation of prepared electronic documents. Particular attention is given to minimizing the effort for providing both presentation material for the lecturer and electronic WWW scripts for the students, and to smoothly integrating the results of free pen-based elaboration with the scripts. First results of practical usage are available.

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