What technology is used most in the classrooms?
Computers and computer projection, followed closely by document stand cameras–that’s a device that you can use either with a piece of paper and a pen, to write on, or show a textbook or a circuit board. It takes live video and puts it up on the screen. Faculty members are using that a great deal more in Innovation Hall than they’ve ever used it in the past, which was a little bit of a surprise. Also, with the dual projection systems in the Innovation Hall lecture halls, you can put up a photograph of a volcano and a schematic of what’s inside that volcano side by side. I think faculty members are really enjoying that capability in the lecture halls. A series of faculty focus groups indicated that that faculty members believe students will make more and more use of laptops in the classroom. Are you trying to make provisions for that? We are. It’s harder to do that with older classrooms. The difficulty with laptops is electrical outlets. The ITU has a wireless deployment plan, so you can
