General Information about Room 408

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Room 408
Room Calendar IP: 165.91.232.73
 
Phone: 979-862-8923

Room 408 has 20 chairs set around large wood tables placed in a U-shape.

The room is painted blue with Acoustical Solutions, Inc. [(800) 782-5742 or (804) 346-8350] wall panels clipped to the walls. Room 408 has two (2) 32" TV monitors on ceiling mounted brackets at the back of the classroom. The Polycom FX V.35 is mounted to a bracket located between the front monitor brackets. Each front monitor bracket has a VCR bracket mounted underneath to hold a VCR, and a fixed camera with a wide angle lens is mounted in the back of the room. The microphone mixer and wireless microphone receiver.

A SmartBaord Interactive Whiteboard Lectern L250 was purchased in 2005 to integrate the computer with a flat panel display that the instructor can write on. The interactive pen display allows the instructor to write on a blank white background and also over any computer applications while facing the audience. Presenters can interact with up to four input sources, including their own laptop computer.

Within this workstation a document camera (Elmo EV-400AF,) composite to S-Video video converter, a lectern microphone and a computer with a scan converter are housed. The scan converter attaches to the AV1 input of the document camera. All cabling for the instructor's workstation comes from the back wall of the room.

An AVer-Key video converter is used to convert composite video signal of the Elmo EV-368 to the S-Video input of the Polycom Viewstation FX. The computer is connected into the document camera via a VGA scan converter, both will be provided by the College of Education.

There are two (2) ethernet connections located in Room 408 for use. There are 22 available electrical outlets in the room and 2 outlets that are in use.

Four (4) hanging microphones plus 2 Polycom microphones are placed upon the ceiling to allow the instructors to reorganize the classroom furniture. A Shure desktop gooseneck microphone is installed on the instructors workstation. A Shure wireless lapel microphone is also be installed within the room.

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