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"Podium 911" Computers
Departments and programs used to provide most of the laptops used by their instructors who taught in enhanced classrooms anywhere on campus. The campus-wide model continues to be that classrooms enhanced by the University require the user to bring a laptop. Wardlaw 122 (and WD 126) don't 'belong' to the College of Education (COE) because they were enhanced by the University’s Classroom Enhancement Project (CEP). The COE paid to have a couple classrooms enhanced over the years and then we got federal stimulus money a couple years ago to enhance most of the other classrooms in the College. The COE included a desktop computer in the podium of the classrooms we enhanced that also had security alarms on the door. Instructors can use the built-in computer or bring their own laptop to these podium stations. In conference rooms we enhanced – like in the University CEP enhanced classrooms such as WD 122 – the instructor still needs to bring a laptop.

Teri is referring to what we call the "Podium 911a" laptop - it is set up so that if one of the built-in computers in the podium in a room that the COE updated goes out, we can quickly use that laptop until the podium computer is fixed. That's why it doesn't get checked out regularly. We have reserved the Podium 911a laptop for you for the next few class meetings. In the meantime, we are trying to retrieve a netbook that we got last summer that we are turning into “Podium 911b”, as a second computer to lend COE instructors in a pinch. When we get that back from the faculty member who borrowed it, we’ll try that in WD 122 to see if it meets your needs. If it does, that’s the one we will reserve for you each week.

Finally, all the units on campus struggle with who is responsible for maintaining the various enhanced classrooms all over campus because other colleges have also paid to have classroom enhancements done in their buildings over the years. If a college hired the University CEP to do it, the CEP maintains the room; if not, the college is responsible for maintenance. The CEP folks are trying to make a comprehensive list of all these rooms so that when a bulb goes out in a projector, for instance, everyone will know who needs to pay for the replacement part. For now, our GAs need to know that when someone reports a problem with the equipment in any classroom in the College, please talk to me or David Michaels. We know the history of the rooms and who to contact at the University if there is a question about who does the maintenance or repair.

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