Labs
NAU’s College of Education has many labs open for faculty and student use
Explore the many options available for both faculty instructional and student use, open to those affiliated with the College of Education.
Labs on campus in Flagstaff include:
Curriculum Lab Accordion Closed
The College of Education’s Curriculum Lab provides educational materials and resources to university students and faculty. We offer a wide array of professional literature on topics varying from counseling to whole language instruction.
Contact information:
Location:
Eastburn Education Building, Room 190
Phone:
928-523-0069
Hours:
Monday – Thursday 12:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
For an appointment outside these hours contact:
Garrett Ellsworth
The Curriculum Lab is closed during summer break. Some of our other resources include:
- textbooks for various subjects and grades
- children’s and juvenile literature
- math, science, music, and social studies manipulatives
- thematic units
- selected course reserves
- videos
- video cameras
- slide projectors
- cassette recorders
To access these materials, you need a Northern Arizona University student ID. You can check out up to seven materials for eight days.
Practicum Lab Accordion Closed
Our Practicum Lab is used for individual testing, personal counseling, and tutoring.
Location:
Eastburn Education Building, Room 169
Hours:
Monday-Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The practicum lab facilities consist of:
- six clinical rooms designed for individual testing, personal counseling, and tutoring
- an administrative office which handles scheduling and psychological/personality test distribution
- 2 group/conference rooms
- an supervision/observational room which allows faculty members to provide live, “bug-in-the-ear” supervision to students while they counsel, test, and conference.
Each clinical room is equipped with a webcam that feeds an encrypted server, and allows for immediate or post-session supervision.
Free counseling is available for Northern Arizona University students and members of the community.
Graduate students in the department of Educational Psychology training programs provide counseling under the supervision of licensed counseling faculty.
For more information about receiving counseling, call us at (928)523-7135 or contact us by e-mail.
Test Lab Accordion Closed
A variety of tests—intelligence, vocational development, personality, achievement, and language—are available for qualified students and faculty to check out.
Protocols are available for purchase by qualified individuals. Purchases are made by using the Northern Arizona University JacksCard by depositing money on students’ JDE account.
Location:
Eastburn Education Building, Room 169
Hours:
Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Hybrid Mac/PC Teaching Lab Accordion Closed
This computer lab is assigned as a teaching lab for all ETC undergraduate classes, but is open to education students when classes are not being held.
Location:
Eastburn Education Building, Room 189
Note: This room is scheduled primarily as a teaching classroom for education-only technology courses. When not in use by Professors, it is an open lab available to NAU students. The lab is made up of 24 dual-boot iMac computers. Logins require Dana or Jan accounts.
Hours:
Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Open to all education students during non-class times—contact the lab administrator to learn about availability.
Contact:
Lab administrator by phone.
Available resources:
- 24 student stations
- 21.5″ wide screen dual-boot Intel iMacs
- Mac side: Mountain Lion 10.8
- Win side: Windows 7
- one teacher dual-boot Intel iMac station with SMART Board
- two portable SMART Board carts with dual-boot Mac Pros
- one teacher dual-boot Intel iMac station with Smart E70 TV
- one HP 8150 printer (pages printed cost 10¢ per page which is billed to your bursar account)
PC Teaching Lab Accordion Closed
This room is scheduled primarily as a teaching classroom for education-only technology courses. The lab is made up of 28 Dell 9030s and one teacher station with a Dell 9030. Logins require a Dana or Jan account.
Location:
Eastburn Education Building, Room 185
Available resources:
- 28 student stations
- Dell (AIO) All-in-One 9030 with mouse & touch screens
- Dell 23″ touch screen
- Windows 8
- one teacher station with SMART Board
- one HP 4050 printer (pages printed cost 10¢ per page which is billed to your bursar account)
PC Lounge Lab Accordion Closed
The Lounge is located upstairs on the second floor. The lab consists of 9 Dell 380s. Logins require a Dana or Jan account.
Location:
Eastburn Education Building 2nd floor open lounge area
Available resources:
- 9 student stations
- Dell Omniplex 380s
- Dell 20″ LCD displays
- one HP 9050 printer (pages printed cost 10¢ per page which is billed to your bursar account)
Mobile Lab Accordion Closed
The College of Education mobile lab contains 26 computers that can be checked out to a professor or staff needing them for projects within the College of Education Building.
Contact:
For more information contact the College of Education’s technical department.
Location:
Eastburn Education Building, Room 138
Hours:
Monday-Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Audio Visual Lab Accordion Closed
Location:
Room 189
Lab manager assistance with AV equipment:
The lab manager can assist you with classroom equipment like:
- overhead projectors
- computer carts
- VCRs
Equipment check-out:
- digital cameras
- Windows and Macintosh laptop computers (for a maximum of one semester)
VCR/VHS:
Options available include:
- tape to tape VHS video system for video tape duplication and editing
- VCR with cable access to tape a show from television
- VCR/computer combination to convert a PowerPoint or HyperStudio presentation to VHS videotape
- VCR/laserdisc/computer combination to digitize video