UNSW Law IT – Ignorant Technology that is…

Speaking with Russell and some other law buddies, it is unbelievable at the lack of thought that was put into the development and implementation of the IT infrastructure system of the new multi million dollar UNSW law building. (Mentioned in passing in http://ashell.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/response-to-who-killed-the-newspaper/)

The UNSW Law School should have had some foresight and spent some of their massive budget on some IT consultants to aid them in the building of the new school. It is an obvious trend, that more and more students bring their laptops to uni. It is also obvious that these students tend to be at uni all day using their laptops. Why is there only 2 power points in each law class room…come on. After just coming back from Exchange, the university I attended, (UT Austin, Texas) had a state of the art wireless system for use in the class room. Wireless system and access to the net I believe is very useful while listening to a lecture as one can look up case facts which have been mentioned in class. Can also look up statute as well as have access to other legal sources during a class which can aid in the learning experience (I will be the first one to admit that much discipline is needed to only use the system for class room purposes). As well as this, the computer labs are poorly ventilated, which will increase the chances of computers overheating and reduces there life. Unfortunately it seems that this complaining is a little too late. Oh well. I guess I will be out of here in a year…