Successful Mediated Classrooms

Created by Harriet Watkins (The University of Texas at Arlington) on February 21, 2008

Presented by Rebecca Gould, Director of Information Technology Assistance Center, Kansas State University. She started out by showing us a pictorial of the extreme makeover of a classroom. A large screen (almost movie size) installed on wall, use of clickers, lecture hall style seating, The goals of the project were empowerment and ownership.

They started by looking at the total inventory of classrooms, developing a team to come up with strategic ways to acquire technology (S.W.A.T.), common core (courses with the greatest need), budget estimates, etc. Some of the issues were capacity, ADA compliance, acquiring appropriate approvals, security, maintenance, etc. Need 2.4 million dollars for some of their classroom makeovers.

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		Successful Mediated Classrooms Created by Harriet Watkins (The University of Texas at Arlington) on February 21, 2008 Presented by Rebecca Gould, Director of Information Technology Assistance Center, Kansas State University. She started out by showing us a pictorial of the extreme makeover of a classroom. A large screen (almost movie size) installed on wall, use of clickers, lecture hall style seating, The goals of the project were empowerment and ownership. They started by looking at the total inventory of classrooms, developing a team to come up with strategic ways to acquire technology (S.W.A.T.), common core (courses with the greatest need), budget estimates, etc. Some of the issues were capacity, ADA compliance, acquiring appropriate approvals, security, maintenance, etc. Need 2.4 million dollars for some of their classroom makeovers. classrooms \| EDUCAUSE_SWRC08 \| mediated Harriet's blog Login or register to post comments 110 reads
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