TDR Honored by Johns Hopkins for work on Hodson Hall

Technology Design Resources (TDR) completes the Hodson Hall project for Johns Hopkins University to rave reviews from faculty and students. Here are some accolades heard from students and faculty. - “It’s the most technologically advanced classroom space here on campus” - “It’s very hip” - “Hodson Hall is awesome. It’s the best building on campus, definitely” - “I have never before had access to such wonderful technology and hardware in the classroom. It’s the future of education.” “Even with all the technology, Hodson is warm and congenial classroom building.” The graceful, light-filled interior holds nine classrooms, three lecture halls, and a 500- seat auditorium, as well as a reading room, open spaces, and instructional technology services. Hodson Hall is also home to the archives of the Hodson Trust and Beneficial Corporation and to a new Boardroom for both Johns Hopkins and Hodson trustees. The typical classroom includes a JBL sound system, data and power ports, wireless Internet access, and either swivel or reclinable chairs. Instructors can control from touch-screen podium a Dell Pentium-4 PC workstation, dual-projection screen, CD/DVD player, VCR, document camera, slide-to-video converter, and dual audio cassette deck. Even the window blinds and lights can be adjusted with the touch of a finger. Complementing the building is the new Center for Educational Resources (CER) located in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library initially funded by The Hodson Trust. Through CER, faculty consult with instructional designers and information technology specialists to craft new approaches to teaching and learning in projects ranging from the humanities and social sciences to natural sciences and engineering. A Web-based image database, for instance archives every lecture in Introduction to Art History. In other fields, students can quiz themselves online in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience; participate in interactive laboratory exercises in What is Engineering? Or in online discussions in The Divine Comedy; and listen to Web-accessible audio of authors reading their work in Introduction to Fiction and Poetry. Hodson Hall was designed by the architecture firm Hillier, Technology by TDR, and built by Kinsley Construction.