Lots info coming . . . brace yourself . . .
* For next week, until mid-day Friday, I've checked out two PCs from EPS. Those who don't have, or don't want to use, their personal laptops in the classroom can hook one of these up. Right now, they're locked in the silver metal cabinets in 20 and 17, and we'll leave them there. (So please be careful about keeping the room secure! Laptops are pretty easy to swipe.) The keys to the cabinets are in my pocket right now but I'll put them in the "chalk" ledges on my way home.
* Stop by and check out the set up tomorrow, and see if you understand it. Terminals for pluggin' in are at either end of the room. It'll be obvious which plug goes where, I think. (Hope?) There are three things to plug in, to have access to everything.
1) Video cable. Mac users: you'll need the Mac video adapter that **came with** your computer. Looks like this; should be in the box.
2) Audio cable. If (and only if) you want sound at the projector (which has internal speakers), you'll need to hook up the audio cable to the
headphone jack on the computer.
3) Ethernet (internet connection) cable.
4) Of course, you might also want to plug in the power cords . . .
* On net connection: the reason we do the hard-line connection instead of "wireless" in these rooms is that UCS tells us that if 50 people in that small space try to do complicated online things all at once (like log into Blackboard's discussion areas), we're gonna make the wireless router slow down to a crawl. That means sometimes Wireless will be fine, but if things drag, we'll want to plug in.
* Projector remote controls. Make sure they're switched on, with the button on the upper right. (And switch off when you're done; it saves the batteries.) These projectors turn on pretty slowly, so hit Power, then give it some time. From the remote, you can control the volume of the projector speakers. You can also switch from Computer One to Computer Two, depending on which port you've jacked your computer into.
* On that note, it's a cool feature that we can hook up two laptops, using both sets of connectors, and switch between them using the projector remote. Could come in handy during presentations.
* File management. Some of you (I'm thinking of Trey, specifically, actually) may find this piece of info very useful. BSU is providing 2 Gig of storage space to every single BSU student and faculty member. That's a lot of bytes. The way this works, you'll be able to set up your account and upload stuff, then access it from a secure web address online. Pretty cool. I'll try to post more info on using this later on, but for now, check out the UCS site.
* The card reader on 20S is still on the fritz . . . working.
* Okay . . . some things were installed . . . wrong. And we won't be able to fix them until probably fall break. The deal is this . . . In the end, ethernet (internet) and power jacks should be located in one of the little triangle inserts in the corners of the desk. Like, really built into a special triangle insert. But . . . the special inserts weren't requested with our furniture order, due to some kind of message deterioration between the higher ups and purchasing. So . . . we'll get those later. In the meantime . . . heh . . . well, you'll see. The problem is solved, but it's a little bit, umm . . . my wife's students at Central High would call it "ghetto." But it'll work.
Email me with questions and concerns . . .
Fred
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