Summer Classroom Update

The Learning Technologies Team of IT Services would like to welcome you back to campus with a Classroom Update. Over the summer numerous teams from IT Services were hard at work building, upgrading and performing maintenance in classrooms across campus.
 
Classroom technology is a core component of a modern academic instruction. Well-designed, up-to-date classrooms and teaching technology help to set the stage for a good learning environment. Such an environment contributes to increased teaching options for instructors and better student engagement and achievement for students. Truman has designated three core classroom levels to provide appropriate technologies for a variety of teaching styles. Significant work to improve classrooms was completed as follows:

Complete Classroom Builds – These rooms were either newly constructed spaces or had complete overhauls to the academic technology in the room.

8 - A-level:  (teaching console, data projector, console computer, digital document camera, dedicated laptop connection)
Magruder Hall 1002
Magruder Hall 1006
Health Sciences 3102
Health Sciences 3104
Health Sciences 1206
Health Sciences 1208
Pershing Building 231
Pershing Building 234
 
4 - B-level:  (teaching console, data projector, console computer, digital document camera, dedicated laptop connection + amp and room speakers)
Pershing Building 333
Pershing Building 232
Pershing Building 233
Health Sciences 3215

4 - C-level
:  (teaching console, data projector, console computer, digital document camera, dedicated laptop connection + amp and room speakers + DVD/VCR/TV Tuner, SMART Board or Sympodium, Panopto Course Capture System and A/V/T push button control panel at console)
Baldwin Hall 351  (no Panopto, features a SMART Sympodium)
Violette Hall 1010 (features a SMART Sympodium)
Health Sciences 3205 (features a SMART Board)
Health Sciences 2203 (no Panopto, features a SMART Board)

6 - Specialty Rooms:
Violette Hall 1000
Health Sciences 1212
Ophelia Parrish 2340
Ophelia Parrish 2350
Ophelia Parrish 1224
Ophelia Parrish 2210

2 - Large-Scale Projects in Cooperation with Winkler’s Communication – Lab/Clinic Rooms:
Health Sciences 3215/3219/3207/3237 – Nursing Clinic and Simulation Rooms
Health Sciences 2215 and the entire CMDS Clinic Suite on the 2000 level


Classroom Improvements - Many rooms had targeted improvements on a smaller scale:
New Projectors and improved cabling – 26 classrooms
Digital Document Cameras – 24 classrooms
Kensington Remote Clicker/Laser Pointers – 16 classrooms
New Teaching Consoles – 9 classrooms
Monitor arms to improve existing consoles – 10 classrooms
Dedicated Laptop Connections – 30 classrooms
New Screens – 2 classrooms
New Teaching Station Computers - 4 classrooms
 
Thank you to all those who made this massive summer project possible. First of all to the ITS teams, student workers and Physical Plant staff; but also to the contractors, the secretaries, the department chairs, the deans, the provost and President Paino. Your commitment to improving classrooms will have an impact far into the future of Truman.
 

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