A laptop in the classroom is a great way to integrate technology into your teaching.  You can enhance your lectures with PowerPoint presentations, access online resources, view multimedia clips, and much more!

ITC laptops are secured to multimedia cart.  They all have a 3.5" floppy drive, a DVD-ROM/CD-ROM drive, an external Iomega Zip 250MB drive, and a USB port specially designated and easily accessible for your USB Flash drive. The laptops run Windows XP OS and all have the full Microsoft Office 2003 suite. Other software programs installed include Adobe Acrobat Reader, Real Player, QuickTime Player, etc. (Please do not install any software on any ITC laptop without first getting approval. Contact Rod Edwards with questions.)

A NOTE ABOUT STORAGE MEDIA -- CEPS Technology Services recommends using 250MB Zip disks or a USB Flash Drive as your data storage medium between home, office, and the classroom or computer lab.  This recommendation is based on reliability.  CD-Rs can be problematic because CD-ROM drives cannot always read a CD-R that has been burned on another computer. (If you are using CD-Rs to store your files, please test your CD-R in advance of your class time in the ITC).  Floppy disks, besides having very limited storage capacity, are considered undependable because the stored data is easily damaged or corrupted by a variety a factors (heat, moisture, dust, dirt, smoke, vibrations, and magnetic fields which can be generated by stereo speakers, headphones, televisions, telephones, radios, and even some hand tools!)