Equipment Orders and Cancellations:

Please call our office to place an order.  We need two working days' notice if you intend to use our equipment or services.  Booking early will assure prompt delivery of your requested services.  Last minute orders are difficult to fill. When you make an equipment order for the entire semester, we will deliver your request for every class.  However, this DOES NOT INCLUDE FINALS WEEK.  If you need to use equipment for your final exam,please make a separate reservation.  And please, if you cancel your class, call us to cancel your equipment!

Reservations from Faculty Only:

We only accept orders for computer carts from faculty members or department office staff.  We do not take reservations for classroom use of technology from students. Students needing to reserve equipment for class delivery will be instructed to ask their professor to order the equipment from IMS for the needed date, time and location.  This is for the benefit of faculty, who may not want to be surprised by a delivery of equipment for which they had not planned.

Equipment Loans:

Instructional Media Services exists solely for faculty support.  We do not loan equipment to students.  We have a variety of equipment available: data/video projectors, digital still cameras, digital video cameras, portable sound systems, portable lecterns with sound systems, personal listening devices for the hearing impaired, document cameras, digital audio recorders, CD/cassette players, overhead transparency projectors, laser pointers, screens and 35mm slide projectors.  These items must be picked up at the office in LC-2.  Advance reservations are preferred.

Computer Carts:

When classrooms do not contain installed technology, a mobile computer cart can be delivered to most rooms.  With it, faculty members can project a computer image from the PC, from the Internet, or from their laptop.  These carts contain a cloned computer and monitor with a data/video projector.  They are available in the following locations: Lecture Center 103, 107, 109, 113, and all classrooms in Humanities, CSB, SAB, and OMB.  Network connection to classrooms in SAB is limited. There are no network connections in OMB classrooms.  IMS has a very limited supply of computer carts, so reserve one early.

Teleconferencing and Video Conferencing:

Instructional Media Services offers teleconferencing and video conferencing facilities in Lecture Center-3A.  Take advantage of this convenient service for meetings, conferences, classes, or lectures. Teleconference transmissions may be received from our steerable satellite dish or the stationary digital SUNYSAT dish.  Another option available is two-way video conferencing, using the Tandberg System, which is dialed through ISDN phone lines. In addition, Interactive Television is available in VH-204, and for audiences over 30, in Lecture Center-100.  Call Emily Trapp at x3634 for additional information.

Audience Response System:

A wireless handheld remote, similar to the remote you use for your television, can turn an impersonal lecture in a large auditorium into an interactive learning lab.

Have you ever wondered if your students were grasping all that you were teaching? Or perhaps they did not want to give the wrong answer in front of their peers?

Classroom participation increases when professors use Response Systems to check comprehension.  These systems allow students to answer multiple-choice questions projected onto a screen.  Opinions about a variety of topics can be "discussed" anonymously by students responding on these wireless handheld devices.  Students can express an unpopular decision in confidentiality, but have it viewed by all.  The response systems are an excellent way of gauging student's understanding, spurring discussion, and soliciting student's opinions.

Some response systems may come bundled with a new textbook.  You may order one of your own, or you could use the one available to you now, right here on campus.  Quizzes, tests, games, polling, voting, team competitions, and attendance are just some of its functions.  The Audience Response System is available for use in CSB Auditorium, Lecture Center Halls, or with advance notice, in any smart or electronic classroom.  Students use personal wireless keypads to answer multiple-choice questions.  Their responses are transferred to the system controller, and then tallied by the computer, which can instantly display the results on the projection screen for the entire class to see.  For more information, view their Web site. Other software (compatible with Fleetwood Reply Systems) may be purchased separately, depending on your personal preference.

For reservations contact:

Instructional Media Services
Lecture Center 2
(845) 257-3630