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>Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:56:15 -0500
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Marty Dewindt <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6762 Advice sought for new language building
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>

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David Westerhof-Schultz at a school in sout-central Michigan just put in a 
whole new large lab. They went with Tandberg console. Not sure what else, 
but it was a success. Let me know if you need more info. Tandberg would 
have his name, but I can probably get it with a minimal amount of effort.
Marty


At 02:50 PM 7/31/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>--- Forwarded Message from Lee Forester <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:45:23 -0400
> >From: Lee Forester <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> >Organization: Hope College
> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information 
> Forum     <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Advice sought for new language building
> >References: <md5:E3DD389CB48DAF10E7DBE609C48567B9>
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>I'm in the wonderful position of representing our language department at
>Hope College (Holland MI) in the planning of a new building for us and
>the Communications dept. A part of this will be a new language lab.
>
>I'm looking for any advice I can get to help me with our proposal to the
>administration. We have 3000 students at the college with about a 1-yr
>language requirement. Currently I'm proposing a 32-station lab with an
>additional 16-station dual classroom/lab. We now have a 16 station
>audio-lingual tape lab, so it'll be quite a jump.
>
>We have no technical staffing currently, it's all handled by profs. I
>would like to propose a full-time person to administer the lab, assist
>in training, run the website and help us get our technical stuff up to
>speed (including web-based placement exams, some other programming, 
>internet-exercises.
>
>Anyone out there who has built a new building and/or language lab in the
>last few years? Made a pitch for increased staffing? Advice on what to
>do and what not to do? Anyone with experiences with Tandberg or other
>lab-software vendors want to chime in? Any spot in the archives I should
>look at? (I just joined the list).
>
>Thanks in advance, I'll leave it up to you whether to respond to me
>privately or post to the list.
>
>Lee Forester
>Hope College
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