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>Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:02:58 -0500
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Marty Dewindt <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6296 Lab User Orientations
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Before the days of easy video and i-movie, we used an audio cassette that
the users listened to their first night in the lab. It was very well
done...and hardly used  - even 7 or eight years ago.

Now the faculty bring their students in as part of a class in the first
week. During that time they use the console as part of a class activity.
They also are shown where materials are (news and other video tapes,
cassette tapes, CDs). Most kids these days don't need help operating the
equipment. 

Then we do have lab assistants on from 7-midnight Sun-Thu.

This combo seems to work with little negative impact on staff and students.

Marty




At 09:42 AM 9/24/2001 EDT, you wrote:
>--- Forwarded Message from "Primov, Rachida S" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>>From: "Primov, Rachida S" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Lab User Orientations
>>Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:51:12 -0400
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>We currently spend the first two or three weeks of the semester conducting
>lab user orientations to students enrolled in foreign language classes.
>This practice represents a huge expenditure of staff time and decreases the
>availability of the Lab for regular uses.
>
>We would like to prepare video or audio material which can be accessed
>individually in used as a tutorial for how to use the Lab services.  We are
>considering creating a video, an mp3 or MPEG file, or any other medium.
>
>I have received a quote from Tegrity for a Tegrity WebLearner Platform for
>$24,800.  This is completely beyond my budget.
>
>Can any of you suggest alternative or sources for creating Lab User
>Orientation Modules?  Any idea or suggestions will be welcomed.  I also
>would like how other labs handle orientations for their users.
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>
>Rachida Salama Primov
>The Eleonore Graves Tripp Foreign Languages Laboratory, Director
>University of Miami
>Phone: (305) 284-4858 X 8-7228
>Fax: (305) 284-2225
>Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>http://www.fll.miami.edu
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