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Tuesday, September 11, 2001
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=teachtech08&date=20010908 The virtual teacher: Device provides long-distance class 'presence' By Michael E. Young, Dallas Morning News NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas — Sandra Carney sat at the front of the classroom in her "Cogito Ergo Sum" T-shirt — "I think therefore I am" — leading her Latin class through a rapid-fire question-and-answer session on a society that flourished 2,000 years ago. It was an impressive assembly, made more so by the fact that some of her students sat in other high schools, miles away. But even that didn't match the technological wizardry in her home classroom at Richland High School. As Carney shot questions at her students — who focused their eyes directly on her — the real Carney sat perhaps 10 feet away, in a little teaching station she called "the telephone booth." The Carney the students were watching was a life-size, three-dimensional projection....
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