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Lab Upgrades Fall 2007

1. Camtasia and Snag-IT, popular multipmedia-editing tools, were installed in EC-31.
2. Camtasia records all interactions on the user's screen to create training or presentation videos. Snag-IT captures a picture of the user's screen which can be used in many applications.
3. EC-66 also received Camtasia, in addition to Second Life, gateway to the online virtual world of the same name.
4. New Canon Video Visualizers were installed in EC-66 and EC-125. The Visualizer is a document camera that captures and projects images of paper-based documents or 3-D objects.
5. The accessibility station in EC-125 now has Shark (Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding). Shark reads the shapes created by a user tracing lines from one letter to the next on a keyboard displayed on the monitor. An online demonstration of Shark is available from IBM.

A newly designed Information Technology website was released in Summer 2006.

CHHD-IT Lab equipment upgrades occurred during Intersession and Summer of 2006 (details may be found below). Click on a classroom number to see a full listing of that lab's equipment.

Intersession 2006:

1. Desktop computer upgrades occurred in EC-24A (20 stations), EC-31 (33 stations), and EC-125 (24 stations). Monitors in labs were upgraded to LCD flat-screen models.
2. New printers were installed in EC-24A (2 printers), EC-31 (1 printer), EC-55 ( printer), and EC-66 (2 printers).
3. New LCD projectors were installed in EC-24A, EC-55, EC-66 and EC-125.

Summer 2006:

1. Desktop computer upgrades occurred in EC-24 (5 stations) and EC-55 (25 stations).
2. New printers were installed in EC-31 (1 printer) and EC-125 (1 printer).
3. A new ceiling-mounted LCD projector to be installed in EC-24, along with a DVD/VCR combo and a new faculty workstation.

The Reading and Education Administration Computer Lab Upgrade (Intersession 2005) The Reading and EDAD computer lab at EC-24A was upgraded with 20 new Dell Optiplex GX 270 computers. You may visit the Reading and EDAD Lab homepage and get further details about the resources available at this computer lab.

The Kinesiology and Health Science Lab Upgrade (Fall 2004)
The Kinesiology and Health Science Lab at KHS-272 was recently upgraded with 38 brand new Dell computers. Visit the KHS-272 home page and get more details about the new lab.

The Elementary Education Lab Upgrade (Summer 2004)
The EDEL computer lab at EC-66 was also upgraded to an all PC lab with brand new Dell computers. Visit the EC-66 home page for more details on the lab.