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| One
of the renovated MEEM 'Fish Bowl' labs (The 'Michigan' Lab)
with Prof. Van Karsen using new software to annotate animated
slides and Powerpoint slides or other presentation software
by writing directly on the screen. |
Over
the summer, the MEEM 'Fish Bowl' labs (Michigan and Superior)
received a face lift. Both labs received paint and new carpet,
and Michigan received a new, larger screen, a new digital projector
and new tables.
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| Sympodium
in use: Over the winter break, the Michigan lab received 25
new 64 bit PC's, along with a new piece of classroom technology
which is being tested in Michigan and the Graduate Student Lab
on the MEEM 5th floor. |
This
new technology, called a Sympodium (http://www.smarttech.com/),
has been facilitated by a grant from the SMARTer Kids Foundation
of Canada and has proven to be very popular with Faculty and
students. The technology, in consideration for classroom upgrades
planned for Fisher and Chem Sci classrooms this summer, allows
users to annotate Powerpoint slides or other presentation
software by writing directly on the screen connected to the
classroom computer using a special stylus and software provided
with the Sympodium. Lecture notes, answers, and formulas can
be written and saved directly onto the presentation software. |
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Example
of a Mechanical Engineering class session
View a
Movie Clip of the classroom session Quicktime
2 Mb or AVI 12 Mb |
Example
of a Mechanical Engineering class session |
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| Another
class session in the Michigan lab. |
The
'Fishbowl' Superior Room |
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| Ontario
Room, Photo on rare occasion when lab is not full of students |
Huron
Room, the undergraduate labs, five of them, are named for our
great lakes. |
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| Erie
Room |
Graduate
Lab |
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