Technology in the Classroom

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Technology in the Classroom

• Bernard Colo
• Providence College

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The Essentials

• Need
• Affordability
• Planning
• Faculty / Administrative buy-in
• Diplomacy

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Purpose for Change / Upgrade

• Simplify the process of information transmission
• Involve the whole human in the process
• Utilize all human senses
• Edgar Dale, Cone of Experience

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Observations

• First Electronic Classroom???
• 1989, University of Maryland
• 1993, IBM-TQM Teaching Theatre
• Simmons College, Boston, 1995
• SDSU, 1995
• First presentation on Electronic Classrooms
• 1996 to CCUMC

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A Bit of Nostalgia

• We lived with rolling carts (some still do)
• Overhead, Opaque, Slide, 16mm projectors
• Video was VTRs, ½ Open Reel video, mostly in
  BW
• Portable video gave me pinched nerves in my
  neck and back
• Time consuming delivery, set-up, retrieval
• Lets not forget COWS

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Definition

• What is the Electronic / Smart Classroom?
• Electronic Classroom
• Multimedia Classroom
• Level 1 Classroom
• Technology Rich Classroom
• Classroom of the 21st Century
• OR Is it a Computer Lab / Classroom
• OR a dedicated classroom for distance
  education (video conferencing)

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Enter the Smart Classroom

• Hard Facts on Smart Classroom Design
• Ideas, Guidelines and Layouts
• Daniel Neimeyer
• http//www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/instruct/class
  tech/design/manual-order-form.html
• Taking Control
• http//www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticlepf.as
  px?articleid985

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The Essential Smart Classroom

• " a multimedia room design that features a fixed
  overhead (video / data) projector and screen, a
  computer, and built-in VCR or DVD players, audio
  cassette and CD. What makes them smart is a room
  control system that enables instructors to easily
  operate A/V equipment

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Usage

• The PLUG SHOW laptop Classroom
• The ALL built in Classroom
• The Interactive Classroom
• The traditional AV / TV Smart Classroom
• The Two-Way Video Smart Classroom
• And others to follow

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Environmental Considerations

• Sight lines / Image size
• Ambient sounds / acoustic intelligibility
• HVAC
• Presentation Technology
• Which, Who uses what, future proofing the
  investment
• Control / Location / Access / Orientation
• http//its.syr.edu/instructional-svcs/room-orienta
  tion.cfm

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Personalizing your needs

• Develop your own Guidelines for classroom
  technology
• http//www.college.emory.edu/about/planning/facili
  ties/classroomGuidelines.pdf
• http//media.ucsc.edu/contact/UCSC_Classroom_Guide
  lines03.pdf
• http//www.oit.umd.edu/as/staff/clabaugh/20Order_
  Form.pdf
• http//www.wku.edu/teaching/db/cd/classroomdesign/
  checklist.html
• http//www.wbdg.org/design/dd_architecture.php
• http//clc.its.psu.edu/classrooms/Design/
• http//findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0LSH/is_2_7
  /ai_113184740
• http//campustechnology.com/articles/41298_5/
• http//www.case.edu/its/itac/mediavision/tec_class
  rooms/tec_features.htm
• http//www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/learning-spa
  ce-design
• http//www.okhighered.org/state-system/learning-sp
  aces/brown.pdf

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Designs that Improve Teaching and Learning

• Empower Faculty
• Emphasize Flexibility
• Encourage Student Interaction
• Stress Simplicity
• Expand Connectivity
• Contain Costs
• Sweat Details

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And how do you know it works?Do they answer your
needs?

• Surveys
• Faculty
• Students
• Administration / Support Staff
• http//www.okhighered.org/state-system/learning-sp
  aces/brown.pdf
• Pre Renovation Addition
• Post Renovation Addition
• Faculty Technology Showcase

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To Infinity and Beyond

• Where do we go next
• Clickers (Audience Response Systems)
• WiFi Video to the Projector
• HDMI
• Display Port
• BlueRay HD DVD
• 9 X 16 projected images
• WEB Casts
• Streaming Media and Podcasts
• Videoconferencing

• Portable Annotation Devices
• Document Cameras
• Dual video / data projection
• Multiple Computers (Mac / PC)
• Course Casting
• Rooms that can ACTUALLY be used by faculty
• Intelligent (easy to understand and operate)
  control systems

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• Pico Projectors http//www.microvision.com/pico_pr
  ojector_displays/index.html
• http//www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/young-optics-se
  t-to-dish-out-pico-projector-by-mid-2008/http//ww
  w.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID13935
• Huddle Boards http//www.ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp
  ?x50075
• http//wallenberg.stanford.edu/teachresources/
  examples/copycams.html
• Rooms with no front
• http//www.pserie.psu.edu/neWscal/news2007/feb-Sca
  leUp2.htm
• http//dmc.umn.edu/projects/gini/
• http//fromnowon.org/mar98/flotilla.html