Computer Labs

The New Faculty Technology Center at ITS

Vincent Doogan

In October 2000, ITS Academic Computing Services opened the Faculty Technology Center as a new resource in support of teaching and learning. The Center provides resources for faculty in all disciplines to explore and use digital multimedia, telecommunications, and information technologies in instruction, educational research, and the production of educational and scholarly materials.

The staff of the Center provides a range of services that include advising, project management, faculty training, and production assistance. The staff comprises instructional technologists and members of various discipline-based groups of ITS Academic Computing Services.

The Faculty Technology Center contains an array of leading-edge equipment and software. A growing library of authoring software, along with staff guidance and training, complements high-end Macintosh and Windows systems, digital audio and video, scanners, and CD-ROM and DVD recorders/players.

Using web-based authoring and management tools such as Blackboard,the staff of the FTC facilitates the construction of online course sites. The Faculty Technology Center is also actively involved in the application of new, highly interactive technologies for teaching and learning over Internet2.

The Center is located at the Education Building, 35 West 4th Street on the second floor. Faculty work areas are open seven days a week:

• Sunday
  12 noon - 11:30 p.m.
• Monday - Thursday
  8:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.
• Friday - Saturday
  8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Website: www.nyu.edu/its/ftc/
E-mail: its.ftc@nyu.edu
Telephone: 212-998-3044

Posted February 16, 2001