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>Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:51:18 -0400
>From: Mike Ledgerwood <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6762.3 Advice sought for new language building (!)
>In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>

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The IALLT Language Center Design Kit was written for you!!!!

On jeudi, août 1, 2002, at 11:33 , LLTI-Editor wrote:

> --- Forwarded Message from "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:12:05 -0500
>> From: "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: #6762 Advice sought for new language building
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> As a starting point, you might want to get your hands on a copy of 
> Language Center Design Kit, Third Edition, from IALLT.  You can find 
> information on this at:
> http://iallt.org/iallt_services/iallt_publications.html
>
> Good luck...
>
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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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