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--- Forwarded Message from "Richard Laden" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>From: "Richard Laden" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "LLTI-Editor" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: new LangLab PASSPORT release, partnership with GenevaLogic (ADVTSG)
>Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:04:42 -0700

     E-LangLab, LLC is pleased to announce both the release of a new version
(2.2) of LangLab, called LangLab PASSPORT, and an important new partnership with
GenevaLogic, the leading provider worldwide of classroom-management software.
GenevaLogic's award-winning Vision product and LangLab PASSPORT together provide
a best-of-breed combination adding classroom-control functions to LangLab
PASSPORT, for a total cost of ownership far below that of competitors'
language-lab offerings with classroom control capability. 
     Some of you may have glimpsed a preliminary version of LangLab PASSPORT at
the IALLT conference in June. In addition to being more attractive than previous
versions, this version has some pedagogically significant enhancements,
including the ability to configure the text window to draw students' attention
to key elements in it and a mechanism for instructors to provide feedback on
students' written work. It is also even more user-friendly in several respects.
Readers can scan the release notes by clicking on a link in the News section of
our Web site http://www.elanglab.com. We'll be happy to provide upon request an
installer for the demo version. We can offer a Webinar demonstration for
interested language faculty, but those interested in seeing for themselves how
LangLab PASSPORT can improve instruction in completely realistic conditions can
install and run the fully-functional demo version on every computer in a lab as
well as use it in remote access.            
     Those familiar with previous versions of LangLab will find this new version
significantly improved, we think, compared to the earlier LangLab version 2.0
that was actually the only product to receive the highest possible score in all
categories in the recently-published IALLT study of lab solutions (Windows
version; Apple needs to add a few tools to Mac Java for comparable performance).
For those not yet familiar with LangLab, LangLab PASSPORT turns any computer lab
or classroom with laptops into a language lab and is also usable over the
Internet. The platform rather than lesson content, LangLab PASSPORT contains
authoring tools that let teachers plan lessons and assemble instructional
resources or create new resources, for any language at any level. Students learn
faster because lessons allow integrated teaching of all language skills and
bring interactivity to multimedia material. LangLab PASSPORT delivers these
lessons to students engaged in either individual self-paced work or pair and
group work. Students can simply retrieve them from menus, click to go from item
to item, and use resources of any sort linked to an item. Freed from having to
find files and dispatch them to students, the instructor can concentrate on
listening to students and helping them. Since LangLab PASSPORT creates durable
files of students' recordings and their typed responses, it supports
student-teacher interaction, allowing both real-time monitoring by an instructor
or later retrieval and assessment of a student's work., with comments
inserted at any point in students' recordings as targeted feedback, or with
corrections and comments on written work. LangLab PASSPORT is still, apparently,
the only cross-platform solution with comparable functionality--a significant
consideration for institutions that would like to augment instructional time by
having students use it for homework, as well as for faculty who may happen to
own Macs and wish to prepare lessons or evaluate students' work from home. It is
also by far the most affordable solution of its type, and remains so even if an
institution chooses to add to it the capabilities of GenevaLogic's Vision
software (for which E-LangLab is a reseller).
     Those interested in reading the joint news release concerning the
E-LangLab-GenevaLogic partneship can do so at
http://www.elanglab.com/testlanglab/news/GL_E-LL_Partnership_PR.pdf, and the
link http://www.elanglab.com/testlanglab/news/E-LL_GL_joint_solution.pdf
presents a few ideas for using the two products in combination, among them a way
to create lessons more or less on the fly, when instructors have not had time to
do so in advance.
     
     Regards,

     Richard Laden
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Dr. Richard A. Laden
Director, E-LangLab, LLC
Berkeley, California
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