As I mentioned in my first post, I work up at the Audio Visual Center at UB's Law Library. This has been a neat semester equipment wise as we've (well, the people running the place, anywho) been able to acquire nice new equipment.
Among the new toys erm.. ah.. they're not toys... equipment at Koren are:
A new real, brand name Elmo! No, not the fuzzy thing. An Elmo is a fancy visualizer.
A brand new Eiki, which is a projector.
New monitors for all the user computers because the old ones were, well, old (and from what I hear, UB is trying to make sure there are no more beige monitors/desktops on campus)
And most importantly (for my sanity and no other reason) a brand new fiche reader which we've dubbed "Michael." (Like the archangel, because if you know what it's like to work with a couple decades old fiche reader, you'll understand why we've given the new guy such a delightful title)
It's been really interesting to see, even over the course of one semester, how much the demand for technology in the classrooms has gone up. There are definitely days where we're close to not having the equipment to match the need (though I don't believe that has actually happened yet!) It seems it's high time for the university to start looking into making all classrooms tech classrooms though, judging from the poor treatment the screens in some of the tech rooms have received, I can understand the hesitation on the University's end.
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