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>Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:19:26 -0400
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6903 Lab in transition, suggestions?
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One word: Flat screen monitors.
Well, that's three words. But we are still using our 1987 vintage audio 
booths, with plastic glued over the player holes, computers down by the 
students' knees (unfortunately they tend to sling their backpacks against 
the off button) and flat screen monitors. Students come in, take one look, 
and say "Wow! this is a great lab! so this is where our taxes are going, etc."

If you need more room in each booth and between rows, that's great, but you 
will probably not get the room for students to work on the desks unless you 
use the flat screens. I believe that we got them at a good price when we 
ordered the computers.

Judy Shoaf
University of Florida