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Hi Henry,

Would you mind to forward any responses that you receive along to me? I
too am interested in knowing the answers to the questions you have posed
here.

Erica Dotson
Instructor of French and ESL
Georgia Perimeter College- Lawrenceville Campus

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>Subject: Sony, Tandberg, Apple
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A horrible question to ask, but I will.  Any common wisdom on the best
system out there?  Our language division currently has an all Apple lab.
It
was originally designed as a place where kids could do pre-class prep or
post-class practice.  Since we are delivering more and more content over
the
web and since more and more of our teachers are becoming tech savvy, we
have
more and more classes wanting to use the lab during the classtime.
Network
Assistant doesn't really function well as a teacher console.  It's not
intuitive enough for most teachers, nor does it function fast enough.
It
also does not allow the range of capabilities of the dedicated consoles
we've seen from the likes of Tandberg.  Especially egregious, is the
inability of a teacher to talk with a student over the network while the
student is using sound software (or maybe someone knows a solution to
that
short of wiring a separate audio system.)

Any advice?  Which provides the most functionality?
How about support services from each of the companies?
How often is outside support needed?
How often do you find you're paying for updates or other services?

Thanks!


Henry B. Wilmer, Jr.
Director, Language Learning Center
Phillips Academy
180 Main Street
Andover, MA  01810
978-749-4201
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