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The
"Murray 117 Maytum Multimedia Classroom"
was made possible through the gifts from
Robert
Maytum '34
Robert A. Maytum '59
Marilyn Schweitzer Maytum '57
The planning, designing, and remodeling through completion of the "Murray 117 Maytum Multimedia Classroom" was managed by Michele Hunter of the Educational Computing Department at Allegheny College. This design included input from Allegheny Faculty, and input Educational Computing members gathered from visiting other colleges. Once the Multimedia design was complete the construction began on June 1, 1999, and the room was complete and ready for students by August 2nd 1999. A specially designed Maytum screen saver is displayed on every computer in the "Murray 117 Maytum Multimedia Classroom" to inform users of our great gratitude to the Maytum family for their generous gift toward learning at Allegheny College.
The multimedia devices include a projection of any one of the following: a computer image from lectern computer or a Laptop computer, VCR, DVD (movie), Allegheny campus cable TV, satellite downlink, and "overhead" or Elmo document camera showing images of handouts, transparencies, picture slides, and camera negatives. Also the podium computer includes specialized software which can display any of the images from the 20 student computers onto the projection screen.
The classroom includes 20 custom built desks based on a design developed at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. These desks provide a sliding top to use to take notes or slide back to reveal the keyboard for computer usage. Recessed monitors permit faculty to see students faces, rather than back of monitors. The desk sit on a raised floor which hide all computer cables from view. Special lighting is provided so students can take notes while the projector is displaying.
The Maytum Multimedia Classroom is used in many different ways for teaching. To understand how faculty have used the room during the 1999/2000 school year go to the faculty review page.
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