Instructional Media Services (IMS)

IMRC

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• Web Design & Authoring
• Academic Projects
• Digital Image Collection (Content Dm)
• Apprenticeship Opportunities
• Modern Language Support
• Broadcast Channels
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• Satellite Downlinks
• Showcase
• World View Room
• Equipment & Resources
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• IMS Components:
• Digital Media Studio
• International Media
  Resource Center
• Media Center
• Technology Classrooms
• Digital Standards Guide
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• Lehigh Lab Notes
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IMRC - Equipment & Resources

The IMRC has a variety of equipment available for use by the Lehigh Community.

Room 470 features a multimedia lab with flexible seating for 20+, a white capture board, scanners, laptops for loan, 2 large portable plasma monitors, and five permanent public stations -- ideal for collaborative learning.

Four restricted stations in Rooms 470 and 473 provide staff support for web authoring, digitization of audio and video,audio/video editing and faculty training/collaboration. Three viewing stations provide VHS/DVD/international DVD viewing for reserved media.

Room 470 contains a 'head-end' broadcast rack which operates a C/KU steerable satellite dish and controls several campus broadcast channel. Upcoming on the rack will be a new digital media server which will feature student and academic programming.

Down the hall from the IMRC in Room 490 is the World View Room -- a teleconferencing/multimedia lounge with a 53 inch rear projection television, which can seat up to 35+ people. This room is popular for viewing VHS/DVD films as well as satellite downlinks, and facultystaff/ can request the room for date/time specific showing, as well as request certain film titles to be on reserve in the IMRC office (Room 470).

Broadcasting: Channels

Capture Board

The Capture Board, located in Maginnes 470, is a white board with a camera attached.  This tool has the ability to capture anything written on the white board as a .png file and directly posts that file to a specific location on the web.  From there, the file can be copied and moved to a Blackboard course or to any web location.

The Capture Board is ideal for archiving mathematical notations, all kinds of diagrams, abstract art or non-western fonts.

Equipment loan

Flexible collaborative computer classroom

Maginnes 470 is a room set up for collaborative learning, which includes a capture board, 5 fixed computer stations and scanners, moveable tables and chairs, laptops, a printer and two 20" monitors which can be attached to laptops for group work.  There are also three VCR/DVD viewing stations.

The room also contains a web authoring station which contains a PC, scanner, printer, slide digitizer, and Mac G5 digital authoring station -- for use by faculty, the IMRC staff or Lehigh Unregistered, the campus digital video club.

Reserve

Viewing stations

Three viewing stations contain a TV, VCR and DVD setups.  There is also an international DVD player capable of enabling DVD movies in foreign formats.

World View Room

Maginnes Room 490 is a multimedia lounge which comfortably seats up to 40 people.  The room features a 52" television set directly linked to the broadcast rack in Room 470 -- so that one can either watch a downllinked signal, CNN, C-Span or a show specially linked to a channel on the Campus Cable system.

The room is comfortably furnished with upholstered chairs, couches, stools and coffee tables and is ideal to host either a telelconference, a scheduled movie showing or a reception.