Laboratories, electronic classroom and conversation room are supported with a combination of resident, mobile AV and teaching equipment.
Part of the inventory includes a mobile multimedia teaching station that consists of an Apple Macintosh PC with expanded memory, a CD ROM and an external HDD, an IBM-PC compatible with CD ROM, a video disk player, LCD panel, and a signal converter for presentation with a video projector. All of the lab rooms have been wired for connection to the university backbone, which permits instructors to use Internet applications in the classroom.
Slide projectors with synchronizers and audio tape recorders are also part of the mobile inventory. Stationary teaching equipment in all the labs is a VCR with monitor(s) on a cart, wall screens, white boards and overhead projectors on carts.
One of the labs, the conversation room and the electronic classroom have a secondary lighting system where the level may be controlled for more effective visual presentations. In addition, the conversation room has a resident video disk player with monitor and a slide projector.
The
electronic classroom, which is regularly used for Culture &
Civilization courses, has a full complement of stereophonic audio tape
recorders with the appropriate speakers and amplifiers, an overhead
projector on cart, a slide projector and dual screens for comparative
presentations. Films with either optical or magnetic sound tracks are
transferred by chain to VHS recordings for presentations.