A&AA Tech Services is located in Lawrence Hall, Room 282.

A&AA Technology Services (AAATech) offers guidance and support to faculty and students in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. AAATech can assist A&AA educators with facilitating e-learning principles in their pedagogical pursuits via digital media, internet applications, mobile devices, and traditional computing technologies. The department manages three instructional labs and two open labs for the school. Technologies and services include: Large format draft and production printing; 3D printing; Vinyl cutting; and Audio lab support.

Faculty are the core of A&AA Tech Services’ support base (not just for pedagogy—in all aspects), but the unit also serves GTFs. The A&AA Educational Technologist makes contact with all new faculty members to assess needs and offer service support. AA Tech Services’ Sean Sharp partnered with Kassia Dellabough to run a Summer 2014 workshop on “flipping” courses for six A&AA faculty – which included a school provided stipend – to attend a weeklong summer foundational course, and then to develop and implement a flipped module within one course taught in AY 2014-15. Participating faculty presented their results to an A&AA all-faculty meeting.

AAATech actively supports Active Learning Spaces: Lawrence 222 has two projectors placed at 90 degree angles with a flexible furniture layout and the latest Crestron interface; Lawrence 230 is “a little more dynamic,” as it is easier to re-orient the seating and the room also has multiple projection and display options.

In AY 2014-15, AAATech responded to roughly 3500 Help Desk tickets. Of those, about 750 were Ed Tech related (21% of total). These could be range from Course Folder requests (the majority), to classroom support requests, to consulting with Sean Sharp about technology for teaching. Approximately half of the Ed Tech were related to requesting and supporting the shared server Course Folders, which store class materials and student projects.