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NACC Opens New Student and Faculty
Technology Learning Center
As part of a US Department of Education Title III Strengthening
Institutions Program grant, Northeast Alabama Community College
is pleased to announce the opening of the Student and Faculty
Technology Learning Center located in the Business Education
Building Room 107. The Center offers training in instructional
technologies as well as serves as a technology testing center
for certifications such as Microsoft and IC3.
The center is an official testing site for
the new Microsoft Elevate America program. Microsoft is
providing 1 million vouchers to states for no-cost access to
Microsoft E-Learning courses and select Microsoft Business
Certification exams. Vouchers are available in the Workforce
development office, and practice testing and certification
testing will be offered in the Learning Center on the NACC
campus.
“We are very pleased with the opening of
this Center,” said NACC President Dr. David Campbell. “We have
over the past several years made substantial investments into
educational technology and now consider the college in the front
lines when it comes to these new instructional methods. Our goal
now is to make certain that all our faculty and staff acquire
the knowledge they need to apply this technology. Mrs. Lea will
be providing this instruction to them through the Student and
Faculty Technology Learning Center.” Judith Lea serves as the
Director of the Center.
The college is characterized by the access to educational
technology that already is provided. There are more than twenty
computer labs on campus, and approximately 650 personal
computers. The college is totally wireless and provides a Web
cam that sends out real-time images of the Quadrangle area
world-wide. The Wimba software system permits faculty members to
record lectures and students may replay these recordings on or
off campus. Blackboard software provides support for online
courses, as well as applications for classroom instruction.
Electronic smart boards, projectors and computers provide
classroom instructional support for any Instructor who requests
them. The college also is served by a Teleconference Center and
mobile teleconference units.
“The Student and Faculty Technology Learning Center will permit
us to get the most from the educational technology that we have
on campus,” Campbell stated. “This is the next logical step
after having acquired this educational technology.” Campbell
noted that Dr. Joe Burke serves as the coordinator of the
federal grant, which was obtained based on the submission from
an NACC Committee which he chaired.
As a part of the grant, the Center also has a blog (www.nacctlc.blogspot.com)
where anyone can check technology news and a schedule of
upcoming training sessions.
For more information about the Technology Learning Center go to
NACC's Title III page,
or contact Judith Lea at telephone ext. 309 or by e-mail at
leaj@nacc.edu.
Pictured is Student and Faculty Technology
Learning Center, nicknamed the "TLC." Director Judith Lea
(standing left) is assisting students using the lab.
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