Emerging Technology Center
Announcements
We are pleased to bring you our "A Day in the Life of Emerging Technology" blog as our announcements.
Georgia Southern University Technology Showcase (Posted: 2008-08-12 16:48:35)We are pleased to announce Georgia Southern University's Technology Showcase, hosted by the Emerging Technology Center. This showcase is an opportunity for educational technology vendors to show their wares to the Georgia Southern community and to make faculty, staff, and students more aware of what is already available on our campus and what is on the horizon.
The conference will be held on November 14, 2008, from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM in the beautiful College of Information Technology building at Georgia Southern University. The vendor exhibits will be on the first floor in the two story atrium lobby that provides a wonderful view of campus.
We enourage all faculty, staff, and students to come and experience this unique opportunity. Highlights of this event include vendor exhibits and workshops that will highlight specific technologies and products. Look for more information on this web site as the date draws nearer.
If you have questions, please contact Pam Deal at pdeal@georgiasouthern.edu or by phone at (912) 478-0882.
Lab Support has been working on assembly of the History Lab in room 1231. To date, we have the laptops inventoried and have collected DHCP information. I have been working with Nathan on re-purposing his HE image for these laptops. In short, this means we will image one laptop with the HE image. I will then take the laptop and add all the necessary applications for this lab, then Sysprep and seal the image. We will then make Lap Support a space on the Zenworks image server and copy the finished image out to the server. It will then be used to image the rest of the laptops for this lab. Once the imaging is complete, we will place the laptops in the secure cart for the lab. This will leave just a few minor details to work out before we release the lab to the department for Fall semester.
Pardon Our Progress (Posted: 2008-06-18 11:57:52)Yes, the title may be a little cheesy, but it describes what’s going on here at the ETC web site perfectly. Between departmental shake-ups and the typical demands of any group claiming to study emerging technologies, it’s time for us to overhaul and restructure this site to better reflect our current operations and goals. Since we’re also frontline support for many technologies on campus, we will have to update the web site in pieces with each subsection being uploaded upon completion (in other words, some sections will be completed before others). For a little taste of what’s to come, we’ve already uploaded the newest home page (complete with wonderful images courtesy of Microsoft’s clip art gallery). If you have any questions, suggestions, trouble, or problems (especially if you find a broken link), let us know! You can e-mail us at etc@georgiasouthern.edu, or you can call us at 478-0882. Have a great day!
Exciting new technology at GSU (Posted: 2008-04-16 09:00:00)Georgia Southern has purchased an online learning and meeting tool called Wimba Classroom. This product allows faculty and students to interact and build relationships by combining state-of-the-art interactive technologies such as voice, video, application sharing, polling and white boarding into their distance learning or traditional classes. Practically speaking, this means that faculty, staff and students can share desktops, break out into multiple chatrooms, talk via live voice and video-- all from anywhere in the world. It can be used for online meetings, webinars, lectures, product demos, interviews, or virtual office hours. The exciting part is that it not only works as a standalone product, but also seemlessly integrates with WebCT Vista. Sessions can be captured and streamed or podcast for viewing later or for study or review sessions.
The Emerging Technology Center and the Center for Online Learning will be hosting two full featured demos of the product on Thursday, April 17th in CIT 3314 (inside the Professional Development Center). The first session will be from 10-12 noon, and the second from 1-3 pm. The demonstration is open to all faculty and staff. We look forward to seeing you there!
On-Campus CPS Demonstration (Posted: 2008-03-25 11:00:00)Are you taking advantage of the response pad standardization at your university?
Georgia Southern University has selected eInstruction's Classroom Performance System (CPS)
as the standard throughout the institution. eInstruction's Greg Kilkenny will be on campus Friday, April 4, to demonstrate the CPS system and to answer any questions faculty members have about this product. Four sessions will be offered: 11:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM, and 2:00 PM. Faculty members who currently use CPS in the classroom will be on hand to provide testimonials. And, of course, refreshments will be served.
For more information or to register for this demonstration, click here.
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