Audio-Visual SERVICES AND Resources

The following information is meant to familiarize faculty and graduate students with the audio-visual resources and services available in the Geography Department at UBC. All equipment and services are for department or teaching purposes.

Contact Information:

Audio Visual Services:

Rooms 100, 101, 147, 200, 201 and 212 are all-general rooms serving all faculty at UBC and the rooms are maintained by classroom services. These rooms have built in AV resources including: touch screen controls, a ceiling mounted LCD projector, DVD, VCR and personal laptop capability. Room 100 has two screens and 2 projectors and both rooms 100 and 200 have wireless mic systems. Also, rooms 100, 147, 200, and 212 have built-in PCs. For more information on each of the rooms, follow these links:

Room 100   Room 200 & 212

All of the teaching classrooms have a screen and an overhead projector and internet access. For non Geography faculty who use their own laptops only, wireless internet access is available.

For LCD projection in rooms without built in AV resources there are 4 AV carts in room 206 with sign out reservation books. The required password and user name to access the PC is written on the keyboards. These carts all have a projector, PC, remotes, a VCR/DVD unit and internet access. They may be picked up and returned on a self serve basis and must be reserved in advance in person or by e-mail to Bret Petersen. There are also slide projectors and TV/VCR units on portable carts.

Multi Media Computer Station Rear of Room 206

This computer station is a Pentium 4 computer with Windows XP pro, DVD & CD Burner, Slide scanner, flatbed scanner and a photo printer. It is meant for faculty and graduate student use with teaching items a priority. The software on the computer includes: Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Photoshop 6, Illustrator 10, Corel Draw, Photopaint, Sonic Record Now and Adobe Acrobat 7 pro.

There is a scanner in computer lab room 114 for undergraduate use.

Also available in room 206:

Small portrait studio Screens Microcassette transcriber Stereo/CD/Cassette Player Video edit bay

Light Table Mini DV Camcorder Micro and regular cassette recorders 35mm camera and lenses Portable OH and slide projector

All equipment is for teaching purposes and must be signed out on the clipboard in room 206 and returned in a reasonable amount of time.

Production Services:

The following are available for teaching purposes:
Photography: portrait, tabletop, location
Scanning: slide, print, and negative
Video: editing and production
Poster Layout: design and production in conjunction with Eric Leinberger.

Other A/V Resources at UBC:

The Media Group  is in the basement of Woodward IRC-2194 Health Sciences Mall 822-5561, rentals, colour processing service, media sales, video transfers, posters. Media Services 2329 West Mall. Photography, video conferencing, computer imaging.

Physical Geography Equipment:

The following equipment is stored in room 206 and may be signed out.

Altimeters Beam balance Clinometers GPS unit Theodolites Tape Measures Tools Stop watches Psychrometers

Microscope Planimeters Stadia Rods Stereoscopes Levels Map measures Manuals Bruton Compasses Power cords