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>Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:34:08 -0400
>From: "Mariana Pomphile" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7135.6 lab attendance tracking (!)

Because language learning is largely based in contact hours with the
language is that faculty here require/suggest/invite students to go to
the lab, it has nothing to do with appeasing anything for us.  THen  in
terms of checking what they do while they are here, we have taken the
time to create numerous materials with movies and other things to
encourage students to do things other than the typical (sometimes
boring) lab manual.  We then not only monitor from the main desk what
everyone is doing but also students are most times invovled in an
activity that requires some form of production that they have to turn in
at the end. So we check attendance and what they do while they are here,
both.
It is more work but we have added this two years ago and it has helped
students so...
Mariana

Mariana Pomphile
Language Lab Director
Department of Language and Literature
North Georgia College & State University
(706) 864-1682