This ICC will contain 25 tables forming U-shapes, each table with two chairs and one computer, for a total capacity of 50 students. With the design of this first ICC, instructors will be able to see the screens of all the monitors from the front of the room and will be able to easily move around the room to facilitate interaction and supervise multiple groups of students. Lap boards will be attached to each chair to ease note taking. The HP machines arrived on campus in October 1998 and will be used in the East and West Campus Language Labs during the spring semester. They will be installed in the new ICC over the summer.
Furniture includes tables and chairs.
The AV system cost includes a ceiling mounted EIKI 970 LCD projector, a sound system, replacement projection screen fabric, a teacher's console with built-in touch panel switching, and installation. The committee looked into software and hardware for allowing one central computer to be able to control the monitors of individual computers, possibly displaying one student's monitor on all the other monitors. While this feature is desirable, it is expensive. This cost is not part of our estimate in the renovation of the room. Further study is needed.