Bulletin No. 1, 2024

“Back then, people would put a transparency on the projector and write on it, and the words would get projected on the screen,” he says. “Now we can type directly on a computer.” The teaching material was plentiful; copying everything on the blackboard would have been a taxing and time-consuming exercise, so transparency production was in high demand. Teachers submitted their material ahead of time to the technicians, who would then create the slides on a first-come, first-served basis, taking one to two days per task. As much as possible, they catered to urgent requests, though fortunately these were rare as teachers had good time management and planning. Founded in 1978, the Instructional Media Services underwent restructuring in the early 1990s. “We split into two teams. Some of us were assigned to the CUHK Press to handle audio-visual production. Gradually, this team morphed into today’s Audio- 1 Visual Division,” the long-serving technician recalls. Audio-visual equipment and technical support for teaching, on the other hand, came under the purview of the Audio Visual Services Unit. The outbreak of SARS in 2003 was an indelible memory in Ho’s four decades in CUHK. “A deadly silence fell on campus. No students were coming Audio-visual help at the ready   45