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I'm Dr. Cheryl Noll, I'm Chair of the School of Business.
The Technology and Resources Committee in the
School of Business was founded in 1998, and the purpose of
the committee was to be a collective voice of the faculty
to talk about technology and how it can be used to enhance
their teaching and their research.
The committee collects information and data and
technology preferences from the faculty, and based on the
information they collect from the faculty recommendations are
made to the Chair of the School of Business as to what kinds of
technology would be included in the classrooms.
Just a couple of years ago, the Technology and Resources
Committee created what we call the brown bag lunch sessions.
We invite experts from outside of the School of Business,
from CATS, to come and talk to us about what kinds of
instructional technology is available.
As a result of those brown bag sessions, we have integrated a
variety of technologies into the classroom.
I think that the faculty voice has been instrumental in
bringing quality instructional technology into the classroom.
Hi, I'm David Boggs, assistant professor of
management at Eastern.
I teach business strategy and international business classes.
We try to use a little bit of everything that is available
that will in some small way make the learning experience better.
Personally I have found myself using Google Earth
quite a bit in the classroom.
With Google Earth I can zoom in on any part of the world and
talk about a country.
I might be talking about Egypt and zoom in on Cairo and the
Nile and the pyramids, and so for an international business
class it's absolutely fascinating.
Even for a business strategy class, I've had students in
their presentations use Google Earth to zoom in on a
company headquarters and say here is where the
company is and zoom in on their building or facilities,
so that's been very useful.
We find that for business students understanding
technology is critical to success in the work place,
whether it's new texting and web and Twitter and Facebook and all
these technologies, or even older technologies.
We find that students having a good grasp of technology
is critical to their success in the work place and encourage
that for our students.
Hi, my name is Denise Smith.
I'm an assistant professor in the School of Business.
I teach business law classes including legal environment
and employment law.
Two years ago the Technology and Resources Committee investigated
the use of technology in our classrooms.
We decided to sponsor some brown bag liunches that would
introduce the technology and demonstrate the way that some of
the committee members use that tehnology in our classrooms.
The one that I was very happy to introduce was
the document camera.
It's especially helpful in law classes because you can
lay paper documents under the camera and it
displays them on the screen.
So I can put up copies of contract clauses, I can put
packaging labels, I can put warnings from product liability
cases up for students to see right on the screen.
I thing the use of the document camera and other technologies
that are available in our classrooms really enhances the
experience for the students.
A lot of students in this generation of college students
are visual learners.
It's important to be able to show what you're talking about.
I use it everyday and have received some very positive
comments from students about being able to read the terms of
a contract right as I'm reading it along to them.