Surgical Training Area Virtual Walk Through

1. The instructor delivers an overview and introductory instructions using the "smart" white board and projection system. These images are also distributed to the teaching station monitors throughout the room. A wireless microphone will be required for the instructor.
   Questions: Would it be better if the students all gathered at one end of the room for these sessions? For example, how will the instructor be able to hear questions from students on the outside of the room? Is there a need for portable seating?
2. Demonstration of initial procedure using overhead camera. Again, images will be distributed throughout the lab and could also be projected on the central screen. At this point, all suction and microscope lighting for the rest of the room is turned off.
   Question: Again, how will the instructor field questions from the opposite side of the room?
3. When the initial demonstration is concluded, the suction and lighting at each station will be activated and the students will begin their dissection. Students will be able to start and stop their own VCR. They will also be able to select between their overhead camera and their microscope camera.
   Questions: How will the students control their VCR, using the wireless remote? Is local control adequate, or do we still need master control of all stations by a technician at a central console?
4. There will be several interruptions during for additional instruction. These may originate from the instructor's console or from any video source in the room. Local video will be suspended as well as suction and microscope lighting to focus attention on what is being shown and said.
   Question: Should the system automatically record this intermittent instruction? This would require that the instructor audio be piped into all VCRs. It would also require master control wiring throughout the room.
5. Students will return to their work at the end of each instructional interlude. Monitors and VCRs will again be switched to local cameras.
   Questions: Is there a need to record local audio? What will be on the overhead sound system when it's not being used by the instructor? Would an option to provide music of some sort be useful?
6. The students and instructor will alternate between numbers 4 and 5 for the remainder of the session. We plan to have the selected camera from each of the 16 stations available via building-wide cable television so that the instructors might "check up" on the students from their offices.