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GTCO CalComp enhances student response and assessment.


GTCO GTCO Corporation is a corporation producing interface devices including digitizers, graphics tablets and audience response systems.

GTCO was established in 1975 in Rockville, Maryland by two graduates of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken New Jersey .
 CalComp has issued the InterWrite PRS PRS Partnership (IRB)
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 (Personal Response System) to complement its InterWrite presentation suite. Looking much like a television remote control unit, InterWrite PR5 combines interaction and assessment to enhance classroom productivity. Using the PRS infrared An invisible band of radiation at the lower end of the visible light spectrum. With wavelengths from 750 nm to 1 mm, infrared starts at the end of the microwave spectrum and ends at the beginning of visible light.  wireless transmitters, all students can answer questions and record their responses with the simple click of a button. Results can be saved in a gradebook and A instantly charted and displayed for real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example.  student feedback and lesson refinement.

Find out more at www.gtcocalcomp.com.
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Title Annotation:Learning Resources
Publication:University Business
Date:Dec 1, 2004
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