Spring Brings Opening of Education Visualization Lab - January 17, 2012

Brandt Westing, TACC Research Engineer, views a visualization of all books available on Amazon.

The LTC hopes everyone’s 2012 is off to a great start! And College of Education students and faculty, we hope this will be the semester that you explore and really take advantage of all the great facilities and services that the LTC has to offer. As usual, we have been busy over the holiday break making things even better. You’ll find new document cameras installed in many of the classrooms in the Sanchez Building and Bellmont Hall, and we are finishing up on some great new projection systems for Anna Hiss Gym. You will also find new floor outlets in our Distance Learning Classroom to keep all your laptops humming along during class!

Highlighting the spring for the LTC will be the grand opening of our Education Visualization Laboratory on Friday, February 3. (More details coming soon on this event.) The LTC has partnered with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to develop the lab, which features a 64 million pixel tiled display, a visualization workstation, and a 3D visualization system.

The EdVisLab will allow COE researchers to more easily see and understand patterns, structures, trends, and relationships in large and complex datasets. “The EdVisLab will allow the College of Education to become a national leader in the use of visualization in education and the social sciences,” says LTC Director Paul E. Resta.

The EdVisLab is just the latest example of the way the LTC explores uses of new technologies to benefit education. We are also leading the way on a College-wide pilot of Google Apps for Education. Should be another great semester in the LTC!

—Laurie Caldwell, LTC Communications Coordinator