Mid-Year Report: Submitted by Rosi Kloberdanz, ITS Client Services Director
April 4, 2006
Project title: New Classroom Technology Priorities
Award number: 0508
Account number: 18539
Report period: Mid-year
Description:
This proposal was submitted on behalf of the NDSU faculty. The proposal is the standard Spring request for Technology Fee funding to increase the number of NDSU instrumented classrooms. Based on requests submitted by faculty, and evaluated and prioritized by the CITPG Classroom Technology Subcommittee, this proposal requests funding for instrumentation in 16 classrooms.
Note: All on-going support funding for the proposed expansion of the instrumented classroom pool, as well as all support for existing instrumented classroom and related classroom technology, was requested in the Spring 2005 TFAC proposal entitled “Ongoing Funding for Student Technology Support and Services.”
Milestones:
8 complete instrumented classrooms were installed
4 partially-instrumented classrooms were installed
3 Hitachi interactive panels were purchased, evaluated, and installed
Sonic Shock security alarms were purchased and installed
Purchased and installed additional necessary technology to enhance classroom technology resources (i.e, wireless microphone added to classroom; PRS timers purchased and installed)
Award amount:
$123,350.00 (started with a balance of $50,138.00 - totaling $173,488.00)
Expenses:
$135,560.43
Remaing expenses:
$37,927.57
Comments:
This fund started with a balance of $50,138. This was a result of two initiatives (one supported by Provost Schnell and one supported by TFAC) in support of classroom technologies combined into the same fund.
