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Rhyolite Room

Rhyolite Room

Founded in 1905, Rhyolite was once Nevada's third largest town, and it is today the most photographed ghost town in the state. Rhyolite boasted a public swimming pool but women were only allowed in for a few hours twice a week.

Tech Specs

The Rhyolite Room has thirty-three student workstations arranged in a formal, lecture-style grouping. The student computers are Gateway E4400 desktop models with flat screens, floppy and zip drives. Students must log in with a UNLV Libraries' barcode to use these computers. Room 1147. Class size - 33 at individual computers, some doubling up at computers accommodated.

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.