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    Date: 11/18/96
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SLU COLLEGE CREATES "TECHNOLOGY RICH CLASSROOM"
     HAMMOND -- "It'll sure save a lot of chalk," quipped Win Welford, head of Southeastern
Louisiana University's communication and theatre department.
     Welford is one of four Southeastern department heads who have joined with College of Arts
and Sciences Dean John Miller to turn a large lecture hall in Southeastern's D Vickers Hall into a 
"technology rich classroom." 
     The dean and the four department heads -- Welford; Sue Parrill, English; Roman Heleniak,
History and Government, and George Hess, Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice -- shared the
$18,000 price tag for the high tech equipment. 
     The classroom, said Miller proudly, "integrates just about everything out there as far as
technology goes into one classroom." The room is equipped with four 27-inch television monitors,
VCR,  computer and monitor,  Elmo visual presenter, computer LCD (liquid crystal display), video
slide projector, and 16 mm video film projector. It is also wired for Internet access.
     The college's communications engineer Larry Ward, who is also chief engineer for
Southeastern's KSLU radio station and teaches an industrial technology electronics course, was the
expert on the technology rich classroom project. The Elmo, Ward said, is one of the room's most
versatile features. 
     The visual presenter, he said, is a video camera mounted above a light source. "It has
everything you would need on a camera, including micro and wide angle lenses," Ward said.
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Since the camera swivels, the instructor could use the Elmo to display a three-dimensional object from
different angles or he could direct its lens at a wall map to zoom in on a certain country. 
     "It's very versatile," said Ward. He explained how a professor can marshall all of the room's 
equipment for high tech teaching.
     "Say I'm teaching about transformers," said Ward. "I could bring in a transformer, place it on
the Elmo, which would show the transformer on all four television monitors. I could also use the LCD
to display a transparency or I could plug in a slide of a substation so the students could see what a
huge transformer looks like. I could run a video tape or a 16 mm film or log into a Web site for
additional information. And all the while, I can tape the entire lecture on the VCR for students' future
use."
     Miller said the college will acquaint its faculty with the classroom's potential through
workshops this spring. Plans are on the drawing board to equip D Vickers Hall's second large lecture
room with the same sort of technological riches.
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