Classroom Technology Improvements

Presentation technology in the St. Olaf classrooms continues to be a top priority for IIT.  Over Interim, we began upgrade projects in many of the classrooms on campus as we work toward our goals of providing reliable, easy-to-use systems, with a more consistent look and feel from room to room.

Boe 102, Boe 110 and Holland 515 will receive a full compliment of goodies including newly installed projectors and monitors, PC and Mac computers, VCR/DVD players, document cameras and control systems.

Additional classrooms are already seeing upgrades to the switches and control systems making them less cumbersome and more intuitive to operate.  These rooms include Rolvaag 515 and 525, Speech-Theater 216 and 227, Science Center 129 and 374, as well as Old Main 4. 

Science Center 186 will soon see a few improvements including a Smart Sympodium. This will be one of seven such devices currently on campus.  If you’re not familiar with a Sympodium, it’s a small desktop monitor that works as an electronic marker board and facilitates flexible, interactive presentations limited only by the imagination.  Beginning later this spring, we will begin formally introducing Smart technologies to our faculty by offering courses on the Sympodium’s capabilities and ideas on how they can compliment individual teaching programs.  We plan to introduce many more Sympodiums to our classrooms as each department discovers new and innovative ways to benefit from them.   If you would like more information, contact Dana Thompson at x3067.