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Jennifer, I've looked over the testbed user survey and the focus group agenda and have only one suggestion. In the focus groups the section on image quality and image depth seems to approach this based on the assumption that these images will be projected - and so assumes the need to have a higher quality digital image to fill the functional void of slide projection. Slide projection, however, is only a means to the end of sharing the same image - the best means given that technology. Could this discussion be slanted a little more toward imaginative ways to use digital technology to share images? It does not need to imitate the model set by slides. The technology allows for new and different uses - as those employed by some of the current testbed universities - and it seems to me that kind of thinking ought to be encouraged. The learning lab at Stanford may have some useful comments in this direction. Maybe all members of a class plug in their laptops in the classroom, sign on to the class web site for that day, and together not only move through sequences of images but also through lecture summaries and adjacent personal spaces for taking and sharing notes. |