Please help us get the best value from our lamps and projectors by shutting down the projectors in your classrooms at the end of your class. With fewer in-person classes on campus this semester, it is less likely that someone else will benefit from the previous user of their classroom not shutting the room down at the end of their class.
Why This Is Important:
-Did you know that the lamps in our classroom video projectors have a finite life span, and that they cost between $99 and $400 (depending on the projector model) to replace? Did you know that when “standby” or “A/V Mute” is selected, the projector lamp is still being used? Also, leaving a projector on for prolonged amounts of time will cause heat related wear to the LCD imager that will eventually result in distortion of the projected image that cannot be corrected, necessitating the (costly) replacement of the projector.
Resources For the Community:
– Instructions for using the different classrooms on campus can be found by going to the “What’s in my classroom?” section of the Canisius College Wiki ( https://wiki.canisius.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=78973878 ) , and clicking on the “Click here to see a list of the classrooms around campus” link.
– Need more information on how to shut down a projector in a particular room, or on how to use the document camera, play a DVD, or hook up your laptop to the projector? Log on to the my.canisius.edu portal, click on Campus Services in the Launchpad to open its drop-down menu, and click on “What is in My Classroom?”. You can use the “Select Classroom” option to find valuable information on how to operate the technology in each classroom on campus.
– Need a demonstration of a particular feature of a room? Contact the Media Center by emailing Erik Michaelsen (michaele@canisius.edu), Nathan Johnson (johnsonn@canisius.edu), or Dan Drew (drewd@canisius.edu), and within a few days we will post a link on our portal page to a video showing how to use the feature of the room that you are interested in.
Submitted by: Erik Michaelsen, instructional media technician, Media Center
