Characteristics of the Lecture Halls in Broida Hall

Broida 1610:

Seating capacity: 286 plus three wheelchair bays, two at back left, one at front left center (left when one is facing the audience). 31 seats have left-hand writing tablets (at audience’s left at the end of each row, except for the first and last rows of the center section), and three (A102, A114 and L114) are designed to accommodate handicapped people. (These seats have no tablet or end panel on the outside, a swing-up arm on the outside, and a right-hand (inside) writing tablet.)

To see a seating chart, click here (.pdf) or here (Word).

For an Excel file that you can use to assign seats to students, click here.

Facilities:

Three large chalkboards with two sliding panels each, plus two small chalkboards at each side

Three projection screens, all 12 feet square: A retractable screen at center and one fixed screen at each side

One overhead projector (plus an additional projector owned by the physics department)

Two slide projectors (mounted on the back wall), with remote controls (forward, backward, focus) at the lecture table

Two data projectors, both EPSON EB-PU1008W (WUXGA, 1920 × 1200 × 3), one to project on the center screen, and one to project on the screen at audience right

Stereo sound system with wireless microphone*

Computer lectern^† with installed PC, two USB ports, an HDMI and a USB-C cable (to connect a laptop computer to the projectors and sound system), and one electrical outlet (110 VAC). The lectern has a touch panel to select which device (e.g., lectern PC, laptop PC) is connected to which projector, with a “display mute” to blank the display of either projector (or both). An AVerVision F17HD document camera, mounted on the lectern shelf, is connected to a USB port on the lectern computer. You can use the camera app on the computer to display the image from the document camera.

Lecture table with requisite utilities for performing demonstrations (water, electricity, compressed air and natural gas), and also an HDMI port to connect to either projector via the control panel at the lectern

Though there is no placard stating this, according to the Communication Services page on the Disabled Students Program (DSP) web site, Broida 1610 is fitted with an infrared system to accommodate assistive listening devices (ALDs). Students who need ALDs may arrange to borrow them by sending email to commrequests@sa.ucsb.edu.

A pencil sharpener and stapler are mounted at the front of the hall, at the right edge of the center chalkboards.

Broida 1610 has Wi-Fi connection to the eduroam, UCSB Secure and UCSB Wireless Web networks.

*The wireless microphone, along with all of the audio-visual equipment listed above, belongs to the instructional development unit, NOT to the physics department. It will be available during your scheduled class time. If you need it for a special class session, please request it from Media Equipment at x3549 or Kerr Hall, room 1160.

^†A key is no longer necessary to operate the projectors. During scheduled hours, the system turns on when you touch the touch pad. If you would like to use the lectern computer, you must set up an account at Kerr Hall, room 1160. (You may also do this over the phone at x3549, but if you go to Kerr Hall, you will be able to check immediately that the account works.) If you have already set up an account, it should still be active.

The touch pad on the lectern has tiles that allow you to choose the various options. Though some slight changes may have occurred since it was written, this instruction sheet (.pdf) should be useful.

Note: Storage on the Instructional Development server is no longer available. If you used to upload your lecture materials to this server, for download when you logged in at the lecture hall, you can no longer do that. You will need to use either a flash drive or a web-accessible storage service such as Dropbox or Google Drive.

 

Broida 1640:

Seating capacity: 94 plus two wheelchair bays, one at back left and one at front right (when one faces the audience). Nine seats have left-hand writing tablets. These are one seat in the middle of row A (A105) and the end seat at the audience’s left in rows B through J. (There is no row I.)

To see a seating chart, click here (.pdf) or here (Word).

For an Excel file that you can use to assign seats to students, click here.

Facilities:

• Three large chalkboards with two sliding panels each
• Two manually-operated 6′ × 9′8″ projection screens, side by side above the chalkboards (and overlapping the top rank)
• Two data projectors, both Panasonic PT-MZ880 (WUXGA, 1920 × 1200 resolution), one to project on each screen
• Sound system with hard-wired microphone at the computer lectern, and inputs on the main demonstration table
• Computer lectern^† with installed PC, four USB ports in front, two USB ports on the side, an HDMI cable and a USB-C cable on top to connect a laptop computer to the projectors and the sound system, one HDMI port in front, two HDMI ports on the side, and one electrical outlet (110 VAC) on top. An AVerVision F17HD document camera, mounted on the lectern shelf, is connected to a USB port on the lectern computer. You can use the camera app on the computer to display the image from the document camera.
• Lecture table with requisite utilities for performing demonstrations (water, electricity, compressed air and natural gas), and also a cable to connect HDMI to a projector and the P.A. system
• A pencil sharpener and stapler are mounted at the front of the hall, to the left of the demonstration area access door.
• Broida 1640 has Wi-Fi connection to the eduroam, UCSB Secure and UCSB Wireless Web networks.

The touch pad on the lectern has tiles that allow you to choose the various options. Though some slight changes may have occurred since it was written, this instruction sheet (.pdf) should be useful.

There is no base station installed in room 1640 for a wireless microphone. The physics lecture demonstrations unit has a wireless microphone and base station that you may use if you wish. Please request it at the start of the quarter in which you will be teaching.

^†A key is no longer necessary to operate the projectors. During scheduled hours, the system turns on when you touch the touch pad. If you would like to use the lectern computer, you must set up an account at Kerr Hall, room 1160. (You may also do this over the phone at x3549, but if you go to Kerr Hall, you will be able to check immediately that the account works.) If you have already set up an account, it should still be active.

Note: Storage on the Instructional Development server is no longer available. If you used to upload your lecture materials to this server for download when you logged in at the lecture hall, you can no longer do that. You will need to use either a flash drive or a web-accessible storage service such as Dropbox or Google Drive.