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Instructional Media Lab
Located... in the North
Education building (NE) at SDSU, the College of
Education's Technology Complex encompasses several
facilities, the heart of which is the Instructional
Media Lab (IML), room NE 275.
Lab Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 8:30 AM - 9:45 PM
Friday: 8:30 AM - 6:45 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM - 2:45 PM
Phone Number:
(619) 594-6134
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User Guidelines
The Instructional Media Lab is open to faculty, staff,
and students in the College of Education. The lab staff
is available to assist you with the software and hardware
in the lab. However, because we have a limited amount of
time to assist each lab user, we ask that you exhaust
other resources such as your class syllabi, class notes,
software manuals, classmates, online resources, and
instructors prior to asking lab staff for help. Below are
some guidelines that will help you work efficiently in
the IML.
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Lab Staff...
Neal
Fogelhut provides technical support services
for the Complex. Gregg
Koyamatsu is the staff Information
Technology Consultant and coordinates the
graduate assistants in the lab. This semester,
the graduate assistants are Eric Logan,
Susan
Phares, and Renee
Carson.The faculty director of the complex
is Bob
Hoffman.
When on duty, members of the lab staff wear a
blue vest and post their name and picture on the
front bulletin board. If you need assistance,
please ask one of the lab staff wearing the blue
vest. Occasionally, you'll find a lab staff
working on their school work in the lab. Please
do not disturb them if they are not wearing the
blue vest.
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Lab staff are available for support and
guidance. Typical lab staff duties are:
- Orienting students to the lab.
- Solving printing problems.
- Solving software incompatibility.
- Providing manuals and job aids.
- Checking out equipment.
Unfortunately, lab staff may not do the
following:
- Script or program authoring (e.g.
Director, Hypercard) applications or HTML
files.
- Complete any portion of an assigned
project.
- Allow you to take manuals or resources
out of the lab.
- Take computer reservations over the
phone.
- Provide technical support over the phone
for your personal computer.
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Sign In...
When you first enter the lab, please sign in.
The sign-in notebook is located next to the
door. You'll need to provide your name, date,
and class that you will use the computer for.
The lab staff may ask you for proof of
registration.
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Reservations...
Towards the middle of the semester, the lab
becomes very crowded. We highly recommend that
you reserve a computer. Students and faculty of
the College of Education may reserve computer
workstations up to two weeks in advance. The
reservation policy follows:
- Students may reserve two, one-hour time
blocks each day.
- If someone is using the computer that you
reserved, please notify them a few minutes in
advance so that they can save their
work.
- Lab staff will remove reservations over
the phone, but will not take
reservations.
- Any person who is more than 15 minutes
late for their reservation will forfeit the
reservation and must attempt to reserve
another computer.
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Printing...
There are two laserwriters and one color
inkjet located in the back of the IML. Printing
cost 10 cents per page for laserprints and $1.00
for color prints. Ask labstaff to print color
documents for you. We use all printing money
that we receive to purchase new laserwriter
toner, color cartridges, and paper.
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General Rules...
The following are additional lab rules,
please:
- No food and drinks in the lab
- Do not install software on the IML
computers
- Contact a lab staff before connecting an
external SCSI device.
- Be courteous to fellow lab users.
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