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Asking the instructor a question in class from home is possible with 's technology.  When 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Department of Psychology's Linda Watkins taught with Be Boulder Anywhere technology for this first time this past spring semester, she could call on distance learning students during class to ask questions.  First, distance learning students log in via --the program that Be Boulder Anywhere currently uses to engage distance learning students.  Watkins explains it this way: "Students tap in by web.  In real time.  They can ask questions in class."   Be Boulder Anywhere provides staff to film the instructor while they lecture.  This way, cameras zoom in, and track the instructor throughout the classroom as she walks and talks.  Watkins says that the distance learning students, "... can see and hear everything in the classroom."  Like the video capture system that OIT provides for 91³Ô¹ÏÍø lectures, two screens are captured simultaneously.  Students can see the corresponding PowerPoint slides at the same time that they watch their instructor lecture.  However, with Be Boulder Anywhere, the instructor can include distance learning students live, during class.  The instructor can call on a distance learning student, and everyone present in the Engineering Center classroom, as well as all of the students watching the class in real time from home, would hear that distance learning student's voice projected.

This past spring was also the first time that Watkin