When Kauke Hall was renovated one of the exciting changes we all looked forward to was the installation of DVD/VCR combo players that would play DVDs and VCRs from around the world. However, it quickly became apparent that the units were NOT “region free, multi-standard.” In fact, they even had some trouble with tracking older […]
We’ve been meeting with faculty from math, computer science, and physics to design and implement a “demo classroom” in Taylor Hall—the home of these departments. Our intent is to try out educational technology that may then be employed across campus. The technology we are focusing on shifts the focus (no pun intended!) from instructor presentation […]
Check out this blurb which is a blend of an NPR interview with DJ Spooky, who was one of our Forum speakers this fall, and our own professor of Africana Studies, Charles Peterson (CP).
The blended blurb:
CP agreed to work with us in instructional technology to produce something on DJ Spooky when we realized he had […]
March 19, 2007 – 12:58 pm
As soon as classes end this May work will begin on a “prototype” room in Wishart Hall, room 102.
The room will typify the equipment and classroom layout that best creates a good learning space for the departments—communications and theater—that call Wishart home. The technological equipment includes a computer, data projector, DVD/VCR combo, speakers and amp, […]
December 18, 2006 – 5:51 pm
Megan Werely and i are planning to work together in her methods class. We will have the students take a typical lesson and spin it out using a SMARTBoard. Of course our state has some pretty serious criteria for using technology in teaching and this particular assignment with both be in alignment with those critieria […]
December 18, 2006 – 5:38 pm
i.t. is looking forward to the following collaborative work…
DW
Nick Kardulius will have his students use websites to communicate their learning to themselves and one another. i.t. will meet with the class and do at least one class session on the HTML editor, Dream Weaver, to facilitate student design of their pages.
Audacity
Both Sharon Shelly and Linda […]
November 7, 2006 – 3:39 pm
if you find yourself staring at a beautiful projected picture in kauke but can’t hear a thing, try this:
*look at the amp, if there is no blue light in the center of the amp this means it has been turned off
*turn the amp on and adjust the two knobs so the white lines, or blobs […]