There will be more than 20 new classrooms in the new LSK Campus. In order to come up with a suitable design of the AV system to be deployed in these classrooms, colleagues in ITSC and SBM have been working closely together for over a year. The new design has the following features:
- Dual Screen – We learned from the feedback of some teaching colleagues: one projection screen is good, but two is better. Apart from showing a presentation, teaching colleagues would very often like to have another projection screen that enables them to elaborate details, derive equations, etc.
- High-Definition Display – All video projectors support natively true High Definition resolution at 1920x1200 pixels
- VGA & HDMI support – The new system supports conventional notebooks using VGA connection as well as newer notebooks and MacBook using digital HDMI or Display Port connection
- Document Camera – All teaching venues are equipped with high resolution Document Cameras. These cameras allow teaching colleagues to project the content of paper document with great ease. For example, imagine in a Economics class, the instructor can present a newspaper clip of the day in class for teaching, without having to scan the content into a computer file beforehand’
- Blu-ray/DVD source – All teaching venues are equipped with Blu-ray/DVD players
- Auxiliary Digital (HDMI)/Analogue (Composite Video) input – Very often instructors may need to bring in new resource/equipment for class presentation. The new campus support not only conventional analogue auxiliary AV input, but also the new Digital HD input, which is now very common in modern AV equipment
- Remote Support Management – The AV system in LSK provides more remote support and management capability. This enables our service desk colleagues to provide more useful support remotely
Like most of the campus community, we look forward to the opening of the LSK campus and we are excited to learn how the AV facilities in the new classrooms will serve existing and emerging needs in teaching and learning. Such experience will definitely help shape our future plans on how and when the existing classrooms in the main campus should be revamped.
