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Collaborative Learning Center

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Pioche Room

Pioche, in the 1870's, was known as "the wickedest place west of the Rocky Mountains." Seventy-five men were buried in the Boothill cemetery before anyone in the roaring mining town died of a natural death.

Tech Specs

The Pioche Room is our most popular classroom. Twenty-four student workstations are arranged so that the instructor can move easily behind and between students at work. The Student computers are Gateway E4400 with flat screens. Students must use a library barcode to log in to the computers.
Room 1144. Class size - 24 at individual computers, see Rhyolite for larger classes.

The Instructor's Station computer is a Gateway E4400 with the following features:

  • 3 ½" floppy drive, 250 MB zip drive, CD ROM drive
  • Complete Microsoft Office 2000 suite of productivity software (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, etc.)
  • Netscape Navigator browser (version 4.76 with QuickTime, Real Player, Shockwave installed)
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 6)
  • Color and black-and-white laser printers are connected.

The Instructor's Station is equipped with an LCD projector and is connected to a SMART Board interactive whiteboard. Using the SMART Board, finger contact on the Board controls any Windows application, and you can write, draw or type on the screen.

Video on demand is provided by the Safari system that also allows viewing of cable television programs and other media from the Media Resources collection.

The LCD projector displays signals from the computer to both the Smart Board and an automatic dropdown screen and is connected to the Safari system.

The Simplex Sound Reinforcement Center allows the use of available wireless microphones and broadcasts sound through speakers installed in the ceiling of the classroom.