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Show Wednesday, February 22. 1989 Chronicle - Page Eleven prof finds teaching a camera is 'challenging' TV 3y Isaiah Stewart Chronicle staff writer "It's really challenging when you think of two hours live," he said. 'They don't even make Johnny Carson do ' . Many students view television as that. On television, I always go one step more than I class." Winters said when he first started teaching the he found students generally don't want to offer verbal feedback in front of a live television audience because of potential embarrassment "Students definitely do feel intimidated by the fact people are watching them all over the valley," he said. "They literally hate to be in the studio and on the air. That first time I had a new audience every night. We had to literally go beg for students." Winters said the amount of audience reaction isn't the only problem. He added the size of the immediate audience is also considerably larger in a U. auditorium. There's an enormous difference," he said. "On campus I have 350 students. You get that big crowd in there and there's a lot of reaction. They limited me to about six students in the studio, and so when I say something, I don't get that reaction." But in many ways the audience of a large class is comparable to a television class. Winters said with more than 300 students in a class, personal contact with the professor is lost. This could be like viewing a teacher on television. "I think as far as personal contact with me, I don't think there's any difi erence between the audiences," he said. , television on can be constructive. Winters Teaching said by viewing recorded videotapes of himself on television, he can objectively evaluate his teaching. He said his speech changes because of pressures due to a rolling television camera. "You're trying to teach to the camera, and it's very easy to become tongue tied," he said. "You become a device only for would have to for a regular, usement ana entertainment, but recently that has anged. Currently students can sit back with a bas of retzels, turn on the "tube" and fulfill college credit ours. The Department of Continuing Education offers an ay of dmerent correspondence courses that utilize elevision instruction. Nathan B.Winters, an art professor at the University of Utah, teaches a televised art class. He said instructing for a live television audience is vastly different than the regular U. classroom. two-hou- r, 100-lev- el vV on-camp- us tele-cours- e, on-camp- us H I repetitive mainly because your mind is focusing in so many directions. I'll use the same adjective three times in one paragraph." Winters said recording the televised class offers students who have been ill or unable to attend class the opportunity to view the lesson. He added he usually places all televised lessons on reserve at the Marriott Library. "Students can check out the lesson and rehear it as often as they like," he said. "When I was an undergraduate student, I would've loved that. You think back to your first calculus class, it would've been great to hear that lecture about five times." Because it's an intimate environment, Winters said in some ways students can learn more from telecours-e- s because of the absence of distractions at home. A crowded classroom makes it hard to see and hear the professor if a student is forced to sit in back, he added. "At home you can get right up on the screen and you don't have to sit 20 feet back with some other students," he said. "I think learning from a television can be good. "But I also think it can be a horrible bore," he added. 'Teaching two hours in a whack is challenging because the regular television format everybody in the world is programmed to is about 30 minutes." Despite the boredom that results from some Winters said he believes the field of broadcast teaching has the potential to grow and become more widespread with increasing technology. "There'll be some great things come out of televised learning," he said. "I think that it has some real potential. But students who've taken telecourses typically have just had to sit and watch monitors. I think that's been pretty drab." tele-course- Immediate openings for 1989 Graduates and Co-o- p Candidates Engineering, Computer Science (BSMS) 1 i i. when pun sllart pw careeii J "s T' HHHH HHHHF HHHHIII HBMHBBBHB HUM VHHHHHV IHHB Come in and see our Grand Reopening and decade of service. : . : When selecting a Diamond Engage- ment Ring, the honesty, integrity and gemological expertise of the jeweler are of paramount importance. Your American Gem Society Jeweler offers all three. 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