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This video tutorial gives you an overview of the new Audio Visual and Media resources that are being installed in our teaching rooms on the Chelmsford and Cambridge campuses.

Specific video tutorials, produced by INSPIRE colleagues explain in detail how to use each piece of equipment.

Lectern

At the front of the classroom is a lectern. Its size may vary dependent on the room size and capacity. The lectern is placed to one side of the room to give the tutor flexibility in interacting with students. It is from here that all the AV and media is operated.

Touch screen control panel

On the lectern is a touch-screen control panel enabling tutors to select the media they wish to use in their teaching. With a range of input and output options, the touch screen can facilitate more than one image being shown. For example, a tutor may have one screen showing a PowerPoint presentation, whilst the other uses the document camera for collecting student responses to a set of questions.

PC

All teaching rooms have a computer with Internet connection. This can facilitate access to teaching and learning information previously uploaded to the VLE (thereby enabling teaching through the VLE) as well as to other online information.

Linking to other external devices

The lectern has a number of other ports that enables tutors to plug in their own laptop or other external devices, for example a camcorder, data stick, wireless pointer, or mobile device including iTouch or similar devices.

Document Camera

A document camera (sometimes also known as a visualiser) replaces the overhead projector (OHP). The document camera can display your existing overhead transparencies (OHTs), but can also project information printed on paper, handouts etc and even three dimensional objects. Tutors can also use the document camera as a means for collecting feedback (as an alternative to using an OHT, whiteboard or flip chart).

BluRay DVD player

Tutors require technology that can project pre-recorded images onto the screen. The use of VHS tape is an out-of-date technology. VHS tapes are no longer commercially available and CD and DVDs, either commercially purchased or home recorded, provide the quality and immediacy not offered by videotape. More frequently, BluRay provides the high definition quality which is becoming the industry standard. Consequently, the AV system will not contain a video player, rather a BluRay player which will also play CDs and DVDs.

Where tutors are still using VHS tape, Media Services can advise on digitising existing analog (VHS) tape material. In the interim a small number of rollaround VHS players will be operated by Media Services and can be delivered to classrooms at specific times when requested in advance.

Large screen with data projector

Many teaching rooms will contain a data projector and large screen from which images may be projected. These images may come via your PC or other external device, say a laptop, via the document camera or perhaps a DVD.

Interactive whiteboard

An interactive whiteboard is a large display board that connects to a computer and projector. The computer's desktop is projected onto the board's surface, where the tutor controls the computer using a special pen. All classrooms have an interactive whiteboard to facilitate the display of resources, perhaps located on the VLE, the Internet or on the document reader.

The whiteboard facilitates annotations to images displayed on the screen. This could then create opportunities for collaborative feedback, perhaps from groupwork during a seminar, which can then be saved as a digital file and perhaps posted on to the VLE.

The electronic whiteboard is the write-on type, so a normal whiteboard marker pen may be used when being used as a normal white board. Please make sure that you do use the correct dry board pen and wipe the screen clean after use.

Other resources

In some of the larger teaching rooms a SMART Podium enables tutors to control their presentations whilst still facing the students. This feature lets the tutor write over slides in digital ink, save notes, access websites or multimedia files and project work onto a large screen. Use of this feature, as is the case for all other devices, is activated by the control panel.

Some teaching spaces will have video conferencing facilities and, in the foreseeable future, lecture capture.