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All presenters crave audience feedback. Fortunately, recent advancements in audience-response technology offer increasingly creative ways for a presenter to get inside the heads of audience members - and in ways a show of hands simply can't.

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At the Ocoee (Fla.) Middle School, the student's ability to see and hear the teacher's voice was a crucial part of the original classroom design. The school recently equipped each classroom with an audio enhancement system. With the system, each teacher wears a wireless microphone and transmitter, and a built-in amplification system broadcasts their voice 10 to 12 decibels above the normal classroom din. In addition, each classroom has a ceiling-mounted LCD projector, which produces larger images than those from the average classroom TV monitor.

Glenn Rustay has had the odd opportunity to see himself teach. A fifth-grade teacher at Garden City Elementary School in Pierce City, Fla., Rustay has always been an advocate of using technology in the curriculum and with his students. He was recently chosen by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to participate in the Digital Edge, a training program sponsored by Apple Computer Inc.

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