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Sessions will
be held in three kinds of rooms, most of which are located in Stevenson
Hall on the Illinois State University campus. Each kind of
room is equipped differently and presenters will be assigned to
rooms according to the kinds of equipment that they and those attending
the session will need to have for a successful session. The only
room outside of Stevenson Hall is Capen Auditorium, a short walk
across the campus quad, where the plenary sessions will be
held. The equipment available in each kind of room is as follows:
Lecture
Halls: These rooms are ideal for presentations to large
groups (250-400). They offer IBM compatible and Macintosh computers
with internet access, data projector, DVD, video cassette recorder,
audio cassette player, audio CD player, lighting control, and slide
projector, wireless microphone, and 16mm projector. These rooms
have internet access.
"Smart
Classrooms"
Stevenson Hall (30-45 seats per room): These rooms, which
have Gateway Destination XTVs installed, are ideal for presentations
to smaller groups (25-30). The Destination offers a combination
of TV, theatre, digital media, gaming system and full-featured PC
based on a 333MHz Celeron processor with 64Mb RAM. The system as
installed includes a 36" monitor, built-in DVD, external VCR,
Mac compatibility, additional external A/V inputs including an S-video
input, a front USB port, a wireless keyboard, Internet access, and
Microsoft Office, including Powerpoint. All rooms have internet
access.
Classroom/Labs
(18-26 computers per room): These classroom/labs have instructors'
computers and computers for use by individuals attending the sessions
and are ideal for sessions requiring hands-on participation by those
attending. Although these rooms have various configurations, a typica;
configuration includes computers with processing speeds of 266 MhZ
or higher, LCD projectors, Zip drives, Microsoft Windows 98
SE, Microsoft Office 2000 Professional (Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint,
Frontpage, Access), Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Microsoft Visual
Studio, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Netscape 4.7. All rooms have
internet access.
A room with networked computers will also be set aside for convenient
access to e-mail and for presenters to work on their presentations
if they choose.
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