Text slide: Instructional Video on how to use Videoconference.
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Announcer: Welcome to the College of Education
and Human Services at Western Illinois University.
It is part of our objective to equip you
with sufficient knowledge about ways
to affectively employ technological infrastructure
to facilitate your teaching process.
Text slide: COEHS Interactive Multimedia Lab (IMM)
Announcer: One of the technological services we provide
is assistance for teaching at a distance via videoconferencing .
Videoconferencing is an interactive instrument
that integrates communications technologies
such as audio, video, computer, and other devices
to let people in different geographic locations
virtually collaborate and share all types of information.
in an educational setting it allows teachers and students
to see each other share documents and discuss content
in a similar fashion to a traditional classroom setting.
There are several issues associated with videoconferencing
that WIU instructor's should be aware of.
This video will assist faculty with the many aspects
involved with videoconferencing.
It's set up to broadly demonstrate
how standard videoconferencing classrooms at WIU operate
and addresses technical issues that instructor's should be aware of
to ensure successful videoconferencing classes.
There are 4 videoconferencing rooms
at Western Illinois University
That the College of Education and Human Services
can use for distance learning.
They are located in Horrabin Hall rooms 7, 82, 83, and 78.
These rooms are usually used to connect classes
between the Macomb and Quad Cities campuses.
They also allow for an instructor to connect
his or hers classes to a variety of field classes.
Each room is equipped with the following
technology components that facilitate videoconferencing.
Each room is well equipped with Wi-Fi internet capabilities
which have consistent high speed internet connection
allowing for high quality videoconferencing.
The rooms have 2 camera's each.
One is for the instructor the other the student.
The instructor's camera is located at the back of the room
on top of or near the LCD Flat Panel.
It directly focuses on the instructor's station
and films the instructor so that the students
at the remote site can see his or her action.
The student camera is located at the front of the room
and focuses on the classroom.
This camera transmits a live visual of actions
happening in the classroom to the students at the remote site.
In a typical course set up the instructor controls
the camera's in the local room where he or she is teaching
and the assigned course facilitator in the Quad Cities
controls the camera's at the remote location.
To control the camera's at the remote location
the instructor would need to select remote
on the camera control screen.
Which we'll see later on this video.
The projector which is situated on the ceiling of the room
projects any visual the instructor is showing locally.
Including powerpoint presentations,
documents on the document camera, videos,
or DVD's to local students.
While POLYCOM unit transmits the visual beam
projected locally to the students at the remote site.
These videoconferencing rooms have
different styles student microphones.
Two of the rooms have small switch
looking microphones located on the ceiling.
While the other two content external microphones
attached to the students desks.
These microphones collect the voice and volume
of the class that will be heard at the remote site.
Regardless of the mode of the microphones
instructor's and students should be careful around the microphones.
Food, chewing gum, shuffling of papers,
and tapping a pens should be avoided.
As these microphones are precise
enough to capture the smallest noise
and amplify it making the presentation of audio
at the remote site at times unauditable.
There are 2 to 3 open stereo speakers in the rooms
they have high quality making sounds clearly audible.
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Text slide: THE INSTRUCTOR'S STATION OVERVIEW
Announcer: THE INSTRUCTOR'S STATION OVERVIEW
The Instructor's station is equipped with several
devices pertinent to his or her delivery of the class.
At the center of the instructor's desk there's a touch pad.
At the top of the touch panel there's an equipment switcher
which includes a row of buttons.
The equipment switcher buttons are used to control visuals
that are projected on the screen at the front of the room
and transmitted to the remote location.
Once the camera button is selected
the instructor can control the room camera's
by panning, tilting, and zooming.
The buttons at the bottom of the touch panel
are used to control the audio allowing for muting,
or increasing and decreasing volume levels.
The instructor's microphone is an external microphone
that picks up the instructor's speaking voice.
Because it is an open mic instructor's can accidently
place papers on it and mute the sound.
Therefore, it is essential to keep your documents
organized and away from the mic.
The document camera also called by it's brand name "Elmo"
is used to display anything that can fit
within the dimensions of the display plate.
Including documents, objects, pictures, etc.
For presentation and communication purposes
the rooms are equipped with an Intel
Dual Boot Macintosh Instructor's computer.
Which includes: Microsoft Office, Firefox, Safari,
Internet Explorer Web Browser, Discipline Specific software,
and VJ Audio Combo Cable Ports to plug in an instructor's laptop.
The further Discipline Specific software is required
to be installed on the computer.
You may contact the College of Education and Human Services
Technology representatives for assistance.
There's also a telephone hanging on the wall for the instructor to use
in case any type technical difficulties occure.
The number to call on the phone is (309) 298-2704
for University Technology Support Services.
If instructor's need to display a video from an DVD or VCR.
A DVD VCR combo drive can be found
in the cabinet situated on the left side under the desk.
POLYCOM unit which is responsible for visual and audio transmission
is also housed in our locked cabinet at the instructor's station.
Instructor's should never attempt to adjust settings on this unit.
If your room is not functioning as expected
contact the University Technology Support Center
for the campus you are teaching from.
The small box hanging close to the telephone
contains a key for the cabinet.
There are multiple USB ports for the use of peripherals
and storage devices located on top of the desk
and at the back of the computer.
Each one of these devices contributes
to an instructors successful teaching via videoconferencing.
Therefore, it is essential to know what the function
of each piece equipment is.
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