{"id":6391,"date":"2014-10-22T13:48:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/?p=6391"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:41:59","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/2014\/10\/22\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you AV a good classroom experience?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Classroom Audio Visual Support Brochure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/ClassroomSupport2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6399\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/ClassroomSupport2.jpg\" alt=\"ClassroomSupport2\" width=\"596\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/ClassroomSupport2.jpg 596w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/ClassroomSupport2-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/ClassroomSupport2-500x271.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Did you know that Learning Services manage the audio-visual (AV) technologies in the University\u2019s 212 teaching spaces? Installing, maintaining and future-proofing classroom and lecture theatre AV is a bit like painting the Forth Bridge \u2013 the job is never completed, however, almost all of EHU\u2019s teaching spaces are now equipped with a high standard of audio-visual equipment such as data-projectors, speakers, Blu-ray players as well as wall or desk mounted control panel with an input socket for laptop if required.<\/p>\n<p>As well as managing the high-quality AV kit in classrooms, Learning Services also provides a classroom support service for colleagues. Amazingly, calls for classroom support have fallen year-on-year since 2010 despite a 50% increase in the number of classrooms supported! See Fig 1.<\/p>\n<h1>Fig 1.Classroom support calls 2010-2014<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6401\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/graph-1024x480.jpg\" alt=\"graph\" width=\"584\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/graph-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/graph-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/graph-500x234.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/graph-900x422.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/graph.jpg 1246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While this is a good news story, we are not resting on our laurels, being very mindful that every call to classroom support represents a delay in teaching and that any delay on our part in resolving issues has an immediate, highly visible and often emotional impact upon the student and staff experience.<\/p>\n<p>While classroom and lecture theatre control panels have become more intuitive and the AV technology more robust, using them can be a daunting experience for new staff. \u00a0To this end, Learning Services have produced a classroom support brochure, which contains helpful information about the audio visual technologies in classrooms and lecture theatres and who to call on for support when it is needed.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Classroom Support Brochure\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eshare.edgehill.ac.uk\/5865\/1\/LS0343_Classroom_support_brochure_pages_print.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6396\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/ClassroomSupport.jpg\" alt=\"ClassroomSupport\" width=\"596\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/ClassroomSupport.jpg 596w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/ClassroomSupport-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2014\/10\/ClassroomSupport-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We think this information will also be of interest to academic colleagues who have been here a while so will post a booklet out to all. \u00a0Copies will also be made available at the Welcome desk on the ground floor of the library.<\/p>\n<p>There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eshare.edgehill.ac.uk\/id\/document\/13069\">electronic copy<\/a> of our new booklet available in eShare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2011\/02\/Don_Moffatt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1081\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2011\/02\/Don_Moffatt.jpg\" alt=\"Don_Moffatt\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Moffatt \u00a0&#8211; Media and ICT Development Manager<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classroom Audio Visual Support Brochure Did you know that Learning Services manage the audio-visual (AV) technologies in the University\u2019s 212 teaching spaces? Installing, maintaining and future-proofing classroom and lecture theatre AV is a bit like painting the Forth Bridge \u2013 the job is never completed, however, almost all of EHU\u2019s teaching spaces are now equipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31050,31052,31053,31048,31054,31051],"class_list":["post-6391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audiovisual","tag-av-kit","tag-brochure","tag-classroom-support","tag-lecture-theatre","tag-teaching-spaces"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Did you AV a good classroom experience? - Library &amp; Learning Services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/2014\/10\/22\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Did you AV a good classroom experience? - Library &amp; Learning Services\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Classroom Audio Visual Support Brochure Did you know that Learning Services manage the audio-visual (AV) technologies in the University\u2019s 212 teaching spaces? 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