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The lecturer's assistant

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For many centuries the chalkboard has been the primary means of communication in the classroom, recently augmented by the overhead projector. These media provide one-way communication: from the lecturer to the students. We describe a prototype system, called the Lecturer's Assistant, which as its main feature enables graphic communication from the students to the lecturer and other students. This capability allows students to easily ask questions or present ideas without leaving their seats. The Lecturer's Assistant also provides the lecturer with a complete electronic environment for the preparation, presentation, and subsequent editing of classroom overheads. The system is designed to be portable and inexpensive to enable widespread usage in the nation's university classrooms.

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 26, Issue 1
        March 1994
        410 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/191033
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          SIGCSE '94: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
          March 1994
          414 pages
          ISBN:0897916468
          DOI:10.1145/191029

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