Have you had any notable successes using technology classrooms? Have you overcome any obstacles that limited your use of technology in classrooms? If so, we want to help you share these experiences with your colleagues.
During the 2000-2001 academic year, instructors of approximately 40% of all courses scheduled in the 87 "Installed Technology Classrooms" on the University Park Campus (see http://www.psu.edu/registrar/faculty_staff/reg_sched/clsrooms.html#1) actually requested computer and multimedia technologies be available to support instruction. The complement to this fact, of course, is that 60% of courses scheduled in these technology classrooms did not request use of the rich technological resources available. Many opportunities are still available for instructors to integrate technology into their classroom instruction.
Appropriate use of computer and multimedia technologies can enhance and extend instruction. The Multimedia Technology Classroom Group of the Center for Education Technology wants to highlight the stories of faculty who have used these technologies creatively and successfully in their instruction. We will publish web-accessible audio and video interviews with faculty members about their experiences with integrated technology. We anticipate that the technological challenges and solutions you describe will encourage more faculty members to explore computer and multimedia instructional technologies.
Have a story to tell? Contact David Passmore, Director of the Multimedia Technology Classrooms Group at 814/863-1522 or at PassmoreTechClass@dharma.ed.psu.edu. He will arrange an interview with you.