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Office of Educational Technology

 

Office of Educational Technology BLOG

The Office of Educational Technology provides specific support for the following areas.

• Classroom Display Equipment – Integration of course material into the display framework of the classroom display equipment
• Mediasite Recordings – Creating a web-cast and a permanent record of your in-class presentations and lectures
• Digital Rapids Recorders – Making high quality video of laboratory procedures and presentations
• Blackboard Academic Suite – Modern course management software
• Best Practices in Course Material Preparation – Upgrade existing course material or create new course material for a technological world.
• Customized Consultation and Training – Ask us to advise you.
• Centra Session Request Form
• Consultation Calendar

Resources Available

• How the U.S. Copyright Law affects you.
• Blackboard Course – Everyone in the School (faculty and staff) have been registered in a Blackboard course entitled "Educational Technology for Allied Health Sciences."
• Recordings – Under the heading "Educ Tech" are several Mediasite recordings that deal with topics of general interest.  Be sure to use a high-speed network connection to view them.
• Personal Contact

 

Our Standing Request – Please tell us what you want to know.  We'll research it and make it part of your teaching toolset.

 

Jean Merenda, HSB 3370, 252-744-1106, merendaj@ecu.edu

 

  »  About Jean Merenda

Jean L. Merenda, MS is originally from New York City where she obtained her BS (Magna Cum Laude) in Criminal Justice. It was while working in the law department of CBS, Inc. on various “60 Minutes” litigations that she first started working with computers. She continued working freelance teaching computer applications on Long Island after the birth of her two daughters until her husband’s company relocated them to North Carolina 17 years ago.

Jean taught various computer courses at Pitt Community College over the past 15 years and was one of their first instructors to teach online. She obtained her Masters in Instructional Technology from East Carolina University in 2004 and was named Graduate Student of the Year. She comes to Allied Health Educational Technology Office via the Physician’s Assistant Program where she was an intern for Dr. Thomas Louis’ Gross Anatomy Course (online and face to face) during Spring/Summer 2003 semesters.

Jean resides in Greenville with her husband Steve, dog Yankee and three cats. Her eldest daughter and grandson live in San Diego where her daughter attends the University of San Diego and her youngest daughter is a sophomore at East Carolina University hoping to major in speech language pathology. Her hobbies include ethnic cooking, hiking and traveling.