[Phys-L] Re: suudent problems wireless in class

[swansonr at EMAIL.SANDHILLS.CC.NC.US (Rick Swanson)]

Just a note to add to this interesting thread.

I am told by techies and some facutly members that use the software, that there are programs that allow instructors to control student computers in their classes.  The software we use is called "SynchronEyes."

My favorite command is an option that locks students computers and puts a phrase like, "look at your teacher" on each screen :-)

I am told that it works with hard-wired as well as wireless networks.

Cheers,

Rick

Richard E. Swanson, Ph.D.
Dean of Instruction
Physics Professor
Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst, NC 28374
swansonr@sandhills.edu (910) 695-3715

> > > edeckel@EROLS.COM 12/11/04 05:19PM >>>

I will be very interested in viable solutions to student email, IM, internet, and
game playing in class, also.  Politically, I canNOT choose to be an "unwired" room
in a much ballyhooed laptop move at my school.  I have the ability to deluge the
techs for information of network usage during class time and the turn kids in for
discipline (I am at an independent high school).  But somehow that seems to miss
the point of the issue.  I was speaking with a parent the other day about this and
she admitted to getting email from her child during one of my classes when the
student wrote to say she was "so confused"!

Ed Eckel
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Greenwich, Connecticut






> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:36:35 -0500
> From:    jwatsonvax <jwatsonvax@COMCAST.NET>
> Subject: suudent problems wireless in class
>
> We're a wireless internet connection campus.  Many students are 'taki=
> ng notes' in class. Apparently some 'notes' are so good that several =
> students have to get out of their seats and go over and LOOK !  I thi=
> nk they have something outer than notes on the screen !  Has anyone h=
> ad these problems?   Any solutions ??
>
> =20
>
> James Watson
> Dept Physics & Astronomy
> Ball State University
>
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