The Walker Technology Center is Radford's new power house of computer labs
designed for your convenience. The Center offers brand new machines in
five labs and a classroom with an overhead projector.
The labs offer a lot of software and hardware that people are unaware of.
CD burners, color scanners, color printers, and Zip drives are among the
improvements. They have also decided to hold free workshops that will
cover topics such as "Adobe Photoshop" and "Fundamentals on the Mac".
The labs consist of four PC rooms and an Apple lab with new GA systems.
The new labs are a major improvement over labs that used to be located in
Miffed. "Some students were upset when we took the labs out of Moffett
because they were moving in to that dorm because there was a lab there,"
said Jason Bayers, supervisor of the center. "These are much better then
the old ones, plus they're open longer...and the help desk is downstairs
so they can fix problems much faster."
Ed Oakes is the Assistant Director of Client Services and is currently
pushing to get the labs open 24hrs.
Below is a detailed description of each lab.
The Walker Technology Center, located on the second floor of Walker
Hall offers five state-of-the-art computer labs. Together, these labs
hold over 110 computers. These labs are open to Radford University
Students, Faculty, and staff. The center offers access to the internet as
well as a wide variety of course software, word processing, spreadsheet
and database applications, graphics programs, HTML editors, and post
script printing. The center also offers Laser printing, Color Laser
Printing, Flatbed color scanners, digitizing video, CD-ROM burners, and
Zip drives. Students are required to bring their own media (floppies, Zip,
and CD-ROM disks) to save information on their own. Click here for the
Center's hours.
Walker 215 contains Macintosh-based machines with external Zip
drives and LaserJet printing. This lab also has as a wide variety of
software for word processing, presentation graphics and Internet
communications (FTP, Telnet, WWW, etc).
Walker 216 and Walker 217 both contain Pentium-based machines and
LaserJet printing. Each machine has an internal Zip drive, 3.5 inch disk
drive, CD-ROM drive, and sound cards. Walker 216 also has the software
listed in the above lab description. In addition, Walker 216, has an
overhead projector and wireless keyboard for use in teaching computer
oriented classes.
Walker 221 offers Pentium-based machines and both LaserJet and
color LaserJet printing. Unique to this lab is a CD-RW, which allows for
anyone to create their own CD's for academic purposes. It also has
equipment that allows digitizing video. (Media must be provided by the
individual and must follow copyright laws). Color scanners are also
provided in this lab.
Walker 222 and Walker 225 is a presentation classroom which
includes a Pentium-based machine with internal Zip drive, an overhead
projector, wireless keyboard, wall mounted speakers, and a HI-FI VCR.
Whitt also houses two labs that are open to Students, Faculty, and staff.
They are located in room 222 and 228.
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