NEED HELP? Call the AV Tech Squad P By Jean Marie Angelo ICTURE THIS: A
FULLY LOADED SMART classroom featuring projectors, PDAs, and every type of
technology in between. At the helm is a new professor, fiddling with
controls and pressing every button on every gizmo, desperately trying to
get the PC to talk to the whiteboard. Some students fidget, others go
online to surf the web or IM friends. After several minutes of guesswork
on the professor's part, the multimedia equipment is up and running. The
video clip is playing, the annotated lecture notes are in full view on a
screen. Still, the students drift. It's hard to win back the crowd once
their thoughts have hyper- linked to topics outside the classroom. It
doesn't have to be this way. June 2006 89 universitybusiness.com Geek
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