Northern Illinois University recently opened the doors to the newly-renovated Fay-Cooper Cole Hall, which was transformed into collaborative-learning center equipped with high-tech renovations, reported NIU Today, the newspaper produced by students at NIU.

"Cole Hall has been at the heart of the NIU community since it first opened its doors, and it is personally inspirational for me to know that this building now will foster learning for tens of thousands of 21st century students," John Peters, president of NIU, told the paper.

In the Cole Hall Collaborative Classroom, students will have the opportunity to build 21st century skills using a state-of-the-art 65-inch, high-definition digital touch screen to interact with educational material, said the paper.

Schools across the United States are taking advantage of new technology. According to the San Angelo Standard-Times, a number of teachers in Texas' San Angelo Independent Schools District are utilizing Kindles, iPads, computers and video cameras to make learning more interactive.

Crystal Elliot, an eighth-grade English teacher at Glenn Middle School in San Angelo told the paper that one way she uses the technology is by allowing students to use iPads and flip cameras to record Shakespeare parodies, edit them and show them to their classmates.

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