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Welcome to the Practice Presentation Room! Feel free practice however you like; the The following details a method for recording your presentation for later review using a laptop and freely available tools software such as Zoom. Zoom is teleconferencing and collaboration software that is currently available for to all UCSB students and staff to usewith UCSB NetIDs.
For the method described in this article:
- You will require either a personal laptop to which you have administrative rights, or a laptop checked out from circulation.
- You will use Zoom to record your presentation, not to present.
- If you have powerpoint presentations etc. to share onscreen, these with your theoretical attendees, those will be shared independently of the Zoom app.
1) Laptop Setup
Requirements
Your laptop will require the following:
- USB / USB-A (input for the webcam)
- HDMI Output (for the TV)
If your laptop does not have these particular I/O ports, you may require adapters.
Note that the laptops available for checkout at the Circulation Desk have both USB and HDMI ports.
Connecting to the Television
- Connect your laptop to the TV via an HDMI cable.
- Turn the TV on (the controls are on the right-hand side of the television)
- Ensure that input is set to information needed.
You should at this point see your laptop's screen duplicated on the TV.
Connecting to the Webcam
This room is equipped with a Logitech Meetup Camera, whose drivers are obtained via Windows via Windows Update (not Logitech) for PCs, and should automatically install for Macs at connection time.
- Connect the webcam to your laptop via a USB cable