Electronic classrooms (ECs) have been funded by the Mellon grant in order to allow faculty to introduce their students to the new tools which they are developing with the Mellon grant. These electronic classrooms are currently being set up at each of the three CTW institutions.

• The EC at Connecticut College
• The EC at Trinity College
• The EC at Wesleyan University

At Connecticut College

The EC at Connecticut College is housed in Blaustein 108 (the Neff Lab).

It currently contains the following:

• Fourteen Power Macintosh 7600 computers with AppleVision 1710 AV monitors, 1.2 GB hard disks and 32 MB RAM
• Two printers
• Two scanners: One black-and-white and the other color
• At the instructor station
• One Power Macintosh 7600 computer with AppleVision 1710 AV monitor, 1.2 GB hard disk and 32 MB RAM
• One Panasonic multistandard VCR (plays tapes in NTSC, PAL or SECAM formats) for the playback of video
• One Pioneer laserdisc player for the playback of laserdiscs and compact discs
• A projection system which can project anything from any of the machines at the instructor station.

It will soon have the following:

• A projection screen
• A sound system
• At the instructor station:
• One Pioneer laserdisc player for the playback of laserdiscs
• An audiotape deck

Support of Chinese, Greek, Japanese and Russian has been installed. Please submit additional software requests to Ana Pérez-Gironés at 860-685-3095.

To reserve the EC for your class (priority is given to language professors) please contact Don Blevins.

The Mellon EC is available as a free-access computer lab when not reserved for classes. It is always staffed by student consultants when open.

At Trinity College

The EC at Trinity College is located in Seabury 4, just above the Registrar's Office.

Click here to see when the EC is available.

It contains the following items:

• Ten student stations with Power Macintosh 7200 computers with AppleVision 1710 AV monitors, 1.2 GB hard disks and 32 MB RAM
• Six student stations with Power Macintosh 7100 computers with 15" monitors and 700 MB hard drives and 32 MB RAM. (These machines were previously located in the media center in the library.)

A printer.

• At the instructor station:
• One Power Macintosh 7600 computer with AppleVision 1710 AV monitor, 1.2 GB hard disk and 32 MB RAM
• One Panasonic multistandard VCR (plays tapes in NTSC, PAL or SECAM formats) for the playback of video
• One Pioneer laserdisc player for the playback of laserdiscs
• A ceiling-mounted overhead projection system which can project from the VCR, laserdisc player, and instructor station computer.
• A regular overhead transparency projector
• A slide projector
• Two projection screens: one for the slide projector, and the other for the ceiling-mounted overhead projector
• A sound system (speakers mounted on either side of the main projection screen)

Detailed instructions for the use of the equipment in this classroom are available.

Support of Chinese, Japanese and Russian fonts has been installed, and support for Greek is forthcoming. Please submit additional software requests to Ana Pérez-Gironés at 685-3095.

Reservations of the EC may be made through Paul Rhinehart in the Registrar's office at x2117.

For faculty, access to the EC is via a combination lock. Buildings and Grounds should already have sent you a Personal Access Code (PAC#) and instructions; if you have not received it, or if you have problems getting into the EC, please contact LockLine by dialing L-O-C-K (extension 5625). Please do not share your personal code with your students.

The EC may be used by students of foreign languages only as a laboratory after 4:00 p.m. when no classes are scheduled. Students may gain access via their student ID cards.

At Wesleyan University

The EC at Wesleyan University is located in Fisk 207.

It contains the following:

• Ten Power Macintosh 7200 computers with AppleVision 1710 AV monitors, 1.2 GB hard disks and 32 MB RAM
• At the instructor station:
• One Power Macintosh 7600 computer with AppleVision 1710 AV monitor, 1.2 GB hard disk and 32 MB RAM
• On a cart which may be rolled in from the adjacent FDS and attached to the instructor's station:
• One TV monitor
• One Panasonic multistandard VCR (plays tapes in NTSC, PAL or SECAM formats) for the playback of video
• One Pioneer laserdisc player for the playback of laserdiscs
• Overhead projection from the hardware at the instructor's station; the projector is currently kept in the adjacent FDS and may be attached to the instructor machine or a laptop as needed.
• A projection screen

It will soon also have:

• A whiteboard
• A sound system (not yet installed)

Support for Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, and Japanese fonts has been installed. Please submit additional software requests to Ana Pérez-Gironés at x3095.

Faculty may reserve the EC for use with their class by contacting Sergei Bunaev at x3387. Please keep in mind that the EC is not a lab which students may use at their convenience--it is a classroom, and a faculty member must be present when students are using the facility.

The EC may be reserved for times during which the language lab is open.