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>From: "Richard Laden" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"
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>Subject: Re: #7854 (ADVTSG) digital labs
>Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:17:56 -0800

For those not yet familiar with E-LangLab's digital language lab product,
LangLab (a software solution ), I'd just like to point out that it runs on
the Mac as well as on Windows machines, has the real-time monitoring and
intercom capabilities lacking in Solo, and is actually cheaper than Solo. It
also comes with an authoring module and a module that allows instructors to
insert comments anywhere in students' recordings as feedback. A version of
this module we're about to release has a report function that shows
instructors exactly which lessons and items each student has finished, which
are in progress, and how much time the student has spent on each. It's
usable for distance learning as well as inside the lab. Those interested
might look at www.elanglab.com, which will let them download a
fully-functional demo version with complete documentation.

    --Richard Laden
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Dr. Richard A. Laden
E-LangLab, LLC
Berkeley, CA
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> --- Forwarded Message from Mary Toulouse <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:15:49 -0500
> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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> >From: Mary Toulouse <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: digital labs
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> HI folks,
> I've heard a lot of lab directors express concern about the prohibitive
> cost of replacing the equipment in their analog Tandberg or Sony labs. We
> at Lafayette have found a software solution, which we are quite happy
with:
> Divace Solo, which is now called the Sanoko Media Assistant. There are
> three versions of the product, Duo, Solo and Lite. The Duo version is
> included with the  digital lab and provides for  monitor/intercom
> activities. Solo, however, includes all of the Duo features, but functions
> as a stand alone version and can be used on a PC without the expensive
> hardware traditionally associated with an analog lab. In other words,
there
> is no monitor or intercom activity, but there are the text
synchronization,
> Q & A, listen and repeat, record, bookmark features.  We have developed a
> number of exciting uses and new courses, which include these
> activities.  For realtime feedback, the faculty is quite happy circulating
> from station to station as opposed to "monitoring" student work from a
> central console.
> I purchased Solo in January, 2004 as an upgrade for $160 a seat.  I just
> checked the current prices with our Sanoko, aka, Tandberg, rep. He told me
> that "the cost of Solo varies depending on quantity ordered, anywhere from
> $269 to $420. Site licenses are available for primary, secondary and
higher
> education schools enabling its use on all PCs at that address."
>
> As I said, this product has worked quite nicely for us; unfortuately, I
> don't know of a similar product for Mac's.
>
> Hope this is of some help.
>
>
> Mary Toulouse, Director of the FLLRC
> Lafayette College
> Easton, PA 18042
>
> Tel: 610 330-5265
> Fax: 610 330-5656


>


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