UCSF School of Medicine - Office of Educational Technology

Loaner Laptops

20 Dell Latitude laptops with DVD-drives and built-in wireless Internet access are available through our Mobile Computing Program to instructors teaching in the undergraduate medical school curriculum. Laptops can be checked out for individual presentations or multiple laptops can be reserved for use in small group breakout sessions or as a single mobile computing classroom. Support is provided when multiple laptops are used in a small group or mobile classroom setting. Subject to availability, individual laptops for use in presentations can be picked up from the ILC Help Desk in the Medical Sciences building room 166 (S-166). To reserve a laptop please complete the Laptop Request Form.

Audio and Video Equipment

Podcast Faculty Lectures

The iPod is a brand of portable media players designed by Apple Computer that allows for easy audio playing and recording. Apple unveiled the first iPod in 2001 and since then the iPod has evolved into many uses both for individuals and universities: playing audio files, recording lectures, playing lectures, playing videos, playing audio with associated images like PowerPoint, and more.

The iPod works with Macs and PCs and once you use it to record audio, the learner can play that audio either on an iPod, a computer, or any digital audio playing device.

Before a faculty member can be recorded they must complete the Audio Release Form. By completing this form, the faculty member agrees that the recording is a part of the course materials for a UCSF School of Medicine medical education program. This recording will be made available through the School of Medicine 's online course environment, iROCKET, as part of the online course material for this course.

To find out more about Podcasting lectures contact OET at irocket@ucsf.edu. To reserve the iPod to record faculty lectures use our Equipment Request Form.

Video Production Equipment - Office of Educational Technology
OET loans audio and video production equipment to School of Medicine faculty and staff to assist in production of instructional materials and to improve teaching and learning. The following equipment can be borrowed from OET by completing an Equipment Request Form.

Video Production Equipment - Kalmanovitz Library Center for Instructional Technology (CIT)*
The Library's CIT is an excellent resource for audio and video equipment that can be borrowed by UCSF faculty (or their designated staff/student assistants) for the purposes of developing instructional content for use in the UCSF curricula. All other uses must first be approved by the Manager, CIT Lab. All borrowers must be registered users of the CIT Lab.

*NOTE: Neither OET, nor the CIT, provide recordable media for borrow or sale. The Library Cashier's Window, in Room 211 on the 2nd Floor of the Kalmanowitz Library, now sells a variety of digital media, including miniDV tapes, CD-R and CD-RW discs, and Iomega Zip disks.