Bill Meyers has been with SUNY Geneseo for 25 years.
In his time at SUNY Geneseo his main areas of responsibility include Classroom Technology Support; classroom A/V systems design, installation & maintenance; Technical support for their TV production facility; Technical Support for live streaming of Commencement, Convocation, and other Campus Special Events; (now) Zoom support also.
Bill received his Bachelor of Sciences from SUNY Fredonia. Some other experiences he has had are being a Radio/TV Engineer for 10 years prior to coming to work at Geneseo in 1996.
Bill’s other interests are Model Railroading, running & biking.
Recently, SUNY Geneseo was tasked to renovate an existing classroom with equipment for web based video conferencing in the Summer of 2017.
Specifically there would be Foreign Language classes shared between Brockport, MCC and Geneseo (as part of the Critical Language Consortium). MCC had Pro licensing for Zoom, and the first version of the equipment list was based on the “recommended hardware” page on the Zoom web site.
Here is an equipment list for what we installed to add the “Zoom” functionality (this room already had a projector and control system in place):
HP Micro PC $700.00
Sharp 20 inch Touch Screen Monitor $634.00
Logitech Wireless Combo Keyboard $33.00
Logitech Connect Conference Camera $499.00
Shure Lavalier Wireless Microphone $295.00
Shure MX202W/C Hanging Microphone (2) $384.00
Tascam US 4×4Â 4 Input USB Audio Mixer $183.00
Total= $2728.00
The touch screen monitor was selected as the other sites had SmartTech Smart Boards installed in their rooms, and the organizers wanted to have similar capabilities at each campus. We get asked about the Node chairs and Thread electric distribution system a lot. Those are Steelcase products, and was far & away the most expensive part of this installation. That amounted to over $19000.00 spent for this $35000 project! If I had to do this again, I would use a different conference camera. The Logitech Connect is not easily point-able, and is better suited for individual use (not in a classroom setting).
