Category: Classroom Technology

SMART Training at the FCTT

Today we had several faculty members from the Math Department, as well as a few from Literature and Languages, attend a session on SMART Notebook 11 in our training lab.  SMART Notebook works hand-in-hand with PowerPoint presentations, allowing annotation features galore. You can even save your annotations for future reference. SMART Notebook works with SMART …

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SMART Podium Demo at the FCTT

We at the FCTT were very excited to demonstrate a SMART Podium for the Math Department and The College of Business and Entrepreneurship at A&M-Commerce. Dr. KaSai Un and Dr. Pamela Webster from the Math Department were already knowledgeable with the SMART Notebook software, so it came as no surprise that they adapted to the …

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Classroom Apple TV Pilot

This summer semester we ventured into the unknown with our first Apple TV pilot.  We’ve seen many other schools do it and we had a curious faculty member willing to be the test subject…er, innovator.  Ed South room 131 became our testing ground.  After installing a projector with HDMI input, and some additional network and …

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6 Things You Need to Know about NBC Learn

Texas A&M University-Commerce has an incredible opportunity to take advantage of the resource tool, NBC Learn.  Click on this FCTT white paper, “6 Things You Need to Know about NBC Learn” to consider how you can use this resource tool to enhance your course(s). You can also read more by going to the FCTT’s webpage and clicking …

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Apple goes full circle with new Mac Pro

Apple, Inc. gave a sneak peak of their redesigned Mac Pro at last week’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco.  Available “later this year,” the new Mac Pro is a vast departure from the current Mac Pro line which has changed little in form factor in the last decade. Few would argue that …

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