They demonstrate a variety of ways the environment might be explored, and the types of products its users might generate. They observe, they interview Ms. Travers and her students, they consider computer-captured user path data, and they evaluate user products. Together with Ms. Travers and their UVa instructor, they analyze this qualitative and quantitative data, and in the process develop valuable insights into the success of their instructional design. At each location they have easy access to network resources at the UVa and on the Internet. They have high speed, high capacity, ejectable storage devices built-in.
Students open their laptops and are immediately able to access network resources.
In these classrooms, students learn to use their computers and computer-based applications. Further, they learn how to use these tools in their professional practice as educators, to enhance teaching, learning, communication, and personal productivity. Because these labs are managed locally, faculty are assured that the labs will be equipped with the hardware and software they need for the learning experiences their students require. Because these stations have high speed, high capacity, ejectable storage devices, students are easily able to save their work on media that can be inserted directly into their laptops. Top of the line image projection in this room makes it easily possible to explore the effects of various types of media manipulation.