Facility: Baskin Engineering Building Room 156 (35 seats)

ROOM SCHEDULE

Office contact: Sheryl Martin-Schultz
Phone: 831-459-5790

Office Location: Kerr Hall Room 25

Baskin Engineering 156 is a 35-seat distance education multimedia classroom with 2 cameras and 3 monitors. It contains numerous types of A/V equipment including a fax machine, Document Camera, SmartBoard, VCR, Audio Cassette, Cable TV, and 2 computers (PC & Mac) with web and presentation software.

Distance Education at UCSC involves two-way live, 'real-time' video and audio of your classroom with participants in an off-campus location. Media Services provides two rooms, Baskin Engineering Rooms 156 and 318, that contain the high-quality, compressed video and audio technology that this technology requires. In some situations, you share your classroom teaching with students at a remote classroom. Guest lecturers and professors normally not able to attend a lecture due to travel constraints may be brought into your curriculum.

UCSC's Distance Education rooms are networked with all the University of California and California State University campuses, in addition to those at the Office of the President in Oakland and the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories. Our Distance Education room is capable of connecting with other sites around the world through ISDN connections.

Facilities Instructional Equipment:

Videoconferencing Equipment Two-way video equipment that allows students and faculty to interact with the extension site in Cupertino, all the other UC and CSU sites, and ISDN connections anywhere in the world.

Touch Screen Controls Allows the operator to control most of the multimedia and distance education equipment in the room.

Installed Video/Data Projector Projects images from computers, document camera, A/V equipment and the Far End site. Also allows for interaction with the SmartBoard.

Installed PC, PowerMac, or notebook computer Both PC and Mac have internet access, floppy drives, CD ROMs, zip drives, web and presentation software. An additional VGA connector is available for an instructor's laptop computer.

Document Camera A way to project printed documents, 3-dimensional objects and graphics.

SmartBoard® These are integrated with the document camera, PC or Mac and allow the whiteboard to become a large touch screen. It also allows instructor to annotate display or create a new image.

Remote Control Cameras - Two cameras (one at front and one at back) that can be controlled from the Touch Screen or the control room.

Fax Machine Allows instructor to fax materials to Far End site. It also works as a speakerphone.

VCR - One for showing videotaped material to audience. Another in the control room for recording a class, presentation, guest speaker.

Audio Cassette Deck Located in the credenza to play audio tapes.

Cable TV Access - To view television programs, news events or other important broadcasts.

Audio-visual Wall Panels - To plug in extra computer or A/V equipment.

Digital Graphics Tablet - Writing on the tablet can be converted into a video stream that is transmitted or displayed.

40" Data/Video Monitors Two monitors for students show the Far End site and Preview image. One monitor for instructor shows the Far End site.