Smart Classrooms

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Smart Classrooms

• Katherine Nguyen
• Amanda Shomgard
• Cait Tambussi

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To Start

• Smart Classrooms
• Shared Multimedia Access to Resources for
  Teaching
• Are also called digital or new media classrooms
• Have an increase in new technology
• Use interactive teaching and different types of
  visual equipment

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Benefits

• Allows for communication between different
  schools in different countries
• Professors can place Powerpoints and notes online
  for students
• Assists teachers in presenting their information

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Equipment
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Cases of Success

• College Park, MD
• Professor Lavine, Spanish
• Online collaboration between students in MD and
  students at the Monterrey Institute of Technology
  in Mexico City
• Videoconferences, email and chats

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contd

• Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
• 1.25 million spend on new smart classroom
• Used by a variety of subjects
• A touch-screen control panel with projection
  system to show presentations on a 10 x 20 foot
  screen

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contd

• Bloomington, Illinois
• 14 months, 6.5 million later 10 new smart
  classrooms in BJHS
• San Diego State University
• By the end of Summer 2006, projected 75 of
  classrooms would be SMART

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Disadvantages

• Impersonal
• Teachers lack training/technical difficulties
• Dull boring lectures

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Bad Experiences

• Educause Center for Applied Research survey
• Professors powerpoints are not effective
• Teachers are forced to troubleshoot problems

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References

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