--- Forwarded Message from "Bob Peckham" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Subject: Reasons why the language lab will not disappear
>Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:49:21 -0600
>Thread-Topic: Reasons why the language lab will not disappear
>Thread-Index: Acp6geMLRepMYU5iTNigYbr6k5WWBg==
>From: "Bob Peckham" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>

Out hear in fly-over country, where folks don't have broadband in their trailers
or cable at a farm 15 miles outside of town, Students find it difficult to
handle streaming video-based assignments. If they have not crippled their home
machines trying to escape Vista by loading up Windows 7, they usually discover
that their inexpensive laptop does not have a built-in mic, and since they are
not going to invest in a high-quality mic, they find it quite convenient to use
our lowly iMacs in the 

Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/lab.shtml

I have seen a number of institutions which have abandoned labs and have had to
make a number of compromises in what they expect students to accomplish. Of
course, if all your students are wealthy and living in a lap-of-luxury apartment
dorm with network redundancy...

TBob


Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D
Professor of French
Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy
Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project
Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library
Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238 
Email: [log in to unmask]


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