Note: Clicking on the captions for most of the photos below
will bring up a higher resolution photo.
Avery Hall Room 115 (the main lecture hall)
This room has a whiteboard, a Windows computer with accessible USB ports,
two wall mounted digital projectors
(visible top center in photo 1) aimed at separate screens
(which can be raised and lowered independently by two
switches on the front wall to the immediate right of the screens,
visible in photo 2),
a document camera, and a connector to connect a laptop provided
by the speaker. The projectors can draw their input from
different sources or from the same source, thus showing different
images or the same image. The sources of the input can be either
the doc cam, the Windows computer, or the speaker's own laptop.
(The room is somewhat wide so
someone seated in the right wing is fairly far away
from the left screen. It can be helpful for audience members
in the wings of the hall if both screens show the same thing.)
The electronic controls for the technology in this room are the
same as for the other classrooms in Avery, described in detail
below.
Photo 1: A view of Avery Hall 115 from the front
Photo 2: A view of Avery Hall 115 toward the front
Classrooms in Avery Hall (other than Avery 115)
Classrooms in Avery Hall have whiteboards (marked A in photo 3,
behind the screen), screens (B) controlled by a wall mounted
switch (C), ceiling mounted digital projectors, document cameras (D),
connectors (E) to draw projector input from a speaker's own laptop, a
computer console (H) with a Windows computer with accessible USB ports
(there is a USB connection on the table top near the touchscreen and also
in the computer console as shown in the lower red circle in photo 4),
and a touchscreen (marked G in photo 3 and circled by upper red oval
in photo 4) to turn the projector on and off and to specify the source
of the projector's input (which can either be the Windows computer, your
own laptop, or the document camera). [N.B. To project a pdf file on a
flash drive plugged into a USB port on the Windows computer, you must
log on to the computer first. This requires a password which you must
obtain ahead of time.] There is also an adjustable height table (F).
Its height is controlled by buttons on the
edge of the table nearest the front wall. (Be sure to check that the
table surface will not run into any projections as the table
height is adjusted.)
Photo 3: A view of Avery Hall 112 toward the front
Photo 4: A front view of the computer
console and touchscreen in Avery 112
If you want to use your own laptop as the source for the digital
projectors, note that the connection cable provided in the room
has a male 15 pin VGA connector, as shown below.
A photo of a 15 pin VGA connector:
If your laptop does not have a compatible female 15 pin VGA port, you must
be sure to bring your own adaptor if you wish to connect your laptop.
(Photo 3 shows a Mac connected to the connector (E), using an adaptor
provided by the owner of the Mac; the room does not have any adaptors
so you must bring your own if you do not have a 15 pin VGA port on your laptop.)
Also, if the image being projected is not satisfactory, it may help
to adjust the resolution of your laptop's screen.
Using the Avery Hall document cameras:
The doc cam has four adjustable joints, whose axes of rotation are
marked by blue arrows in photo 5. (Note that the joints have a limited
range of motion; please do not use force to try to exceed them.)
The red arrow in photo 5 shows the line of sight of the camera and the red oval in photo 5 shows
a lamp that can be used to illuminate whatever the camera is pointed at.
In order for a document (as shown in photo 6) to project correctly, both
Samsung logos (one on the camera arm and one on the base) should be
right-side up, as shown (for a clearer view of the base, see photo 7, of the doc cam controls).
Photo 5: The adjustable joints of the doc cam
Photo 6: Proper position of the doc cam
The document camera control buttons:
There are four buttons you should expect to use.
The unit is powered up if the plastic ring around the power button glows blue.
The doc cam has a light in the camera arm; press the lamp button
to turn the lamp on or off. To freeze the image being projected,
press the freeze button (pressing it again unfreezes the image). The large circular rocker button
can be used to change the magnification of the image being
projected: To magnify the image being projected, press the right
edge of this button; pressing the left edge of this button decreases
the magnification.
Photo 7: A view of the base of the doc cam, showing the control buttons
Classrooms in Burnett Hall
The equipment in Burnett Hall classrooms
is somewhat different from that in Avery.
Each classroom has a doc cam, similar to that in the photo below.
This model has a
lamp in the base for transparencies, lamps in each of two arms
for illuminating paper printouts, and controls for freezing images
and magnifying them.
A photo of a doc cam similar to what is in Burnett Hall classrooms:
The doc cam projects to a screen through a ceiling mounted
digital projector. There is also a computer console
with a Windows computer. The projector can take its input either from
the Windows computer (but note that
using the Windows computer requires a log in),
from the doc cam or from the speaker's
own laptop using a connector (again a 15 pin male VGA connector,
so be sure to bring your own adaptor if needed).
Also, if the image being projected is not satisfactory, it may help
to adjust the resolution of your laptop's screen.
A portion of the kind of doc cam used in Burnett is visible in
photo 8 (in the truncated red oval at left in photo 8). The small red oval (top center in photo 8)
shows the connector used to connect a laptop. (Photo 8 shows a Mac connected
to the connector, using an adaptor provided by the owner of the Mac; the
room does not have any adaptors so you must bring your own if you do not
have a 15 pin VGA port on your laptop, compatible with a male 15 pin
VGA connector of the kind pictured above.) The small red oval
at bottom center in photo 8 shows the USB ports. The middle oval in photo 8
shows the control buttons (explained in more detail below)
which control all of the equipment in the room; unlike
what is used in Avery Hall, there is no touchscreen control unit.
Photo 8: Burnett Hall console
Photo 9 shows the functions of the control buttons.
On the actual units (as opposed to what is shown in the photo),
each button has a written reminder of what it does (PC, Mac if
available (usually not), Laptop, Doc Cam, etc.) rather than being numbered as shown in the photo.
Photo 9: Burnett Hall control panels
