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>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:47:21 -0600
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5753.1Macs but not another platform discussion please (!)

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Even those of our students who think that Macintish is the Antichrist seem
to like the iMacs, and they seem to be holding up well in a lab running 600
student practice hours/week.  We had one bad from the box.  As far as
software is concerned, our big target is the first three semesters.  When
teachers choose a textbook with a fully integrated software program, it is
always biplatformed.  In the one small class where an instructor chose an
independant piece of sontware, she bought an all-Windows program, which we
can run in another lab. Ine feature the students like is the ease of making
accents. All regular faculty (7) spend 3 of their 6 required office hours
working in the lab, and all are learning new things about the MACs. They
seem content that you can use common sense to get around problems.  The
iMACs are transparent in more than one way.

TBob

Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D.
Director, the Globe-Gate Project
Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
University of Tennessee-Martin
http://globegate.org/french/globe.html
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