608 Schermerhorn: Electronic Podium
Room 608 Schermerhorn is one of two electronic classrooms on the 600 level of Schermerhorn. This lecture room with seating for 35 students can handle most multimedia applications. The instructor's equipment is enclosed in a rolling wooden cabinet, providing some flexibility in how the equipment is positioned.
Instructor's Electronic Podium
The equipment availbale to the instructor includes a ceiling-mounted Eiki projector, which can accept VGA and video inputs. Video is displayed on an eight foot (120" diagonal) pull-down screen. The podium contains the various electronic resources available to the instructor. These include a Powermac G4, a VCR, a DVD/CD player, and a document camera. The Powermac has a built-in CD-Rom drive, zip drive and an ethernet network connection for digital presentations.
A room customized Crestron touchpanel controls the multimedia experience including the audio-visual equipment and the physical room environment (lights/program volume).
The system utilizes an audio amplifier that powers two Optimus speakers located at the front of the classroom.
Equipment Available to Instructor
- ePodium: Online Tutorial
- Computer: Powermac G4 with OS 10, CD-ROM and zip drives
- VCR: Multi-standard
- DVD/CD player
- Flex Camera
- Laptop connection; use VGA cable inside podium(please use DHCP to configure laptop for a network connection)
- Projection: Ceiling-mounted Eiki
Technical Summary
- Powermac G4 512MB/40GB/zip/CD-ROM
- Apple 15" LCD Studio Display
- Network: TCP/IP 10BaseT Ethernet Network
- IP Address: 128.59.231.124
scherm608podmac.cc.columbia.edu
- Projection: Eiki LC-X984 Projector
120 inch diagonal screen
- Video: Sony SLVED10 Multi-standard VCR
Sony DVPS530 DVD player
Kenavision Videoflex 7600 Camera
- Audio: Crown D75A amplifier
Optimus speakers
