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 HD cameras, 2 HD monitors and a data projector. It contains numerous types of A/V equipment including a fax machine, Document Camera 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. ITS provides one room, Baskin Engineering Rooms 156, which contains the high-quality, HD 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.

Facilities Instructional Equipment:

HD 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 other 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.

Installed PC or Macintosh Computers: Both PC and Mac have internet access, a DVD player, 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.

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.

Automated Capture System allows presentations to be recorded.

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