--- Forwarded Message from Scott Despain <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:44:04 -0400
>From: Scott Despain <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Computer-based lang.labs

Marc,

We have not regretted at all going with our 34-station Tandberg
Prisma/Divace
system. We do maintain our aging Tandberg analog lab but we are slowing
moving
our testing sessions, institutes, etc. over to the new lab and
electronic
classroom.

We serve essentially any form of media  from the master station to
any/all
student stations and vice versa directly (not through the LAN/Internet).
We
also have an LCD projection system with some nifty Bose speakers which
will
also take video and computer signals.

We have had only a few problems, and found our Tandberg rep to be very
helpful,
prompt, courteous and willing to do whatever it takes to be sure that
the
problem is immediately solved.

I teach a beginning Spanish Internet course out of the classroom on MWF
and
thoroughly enjoy applying these technologies ...

APPROXIMATE (read: no flaming please) cost per unit based on our
installation
one year ago of a top-of-the-line student-station: $4000
($2000-computer;
$2000-Divace, headset, wiring, installation, etc.) Contact your
Sony/Tandberg
reps and I'm sure they'll be happy to send you quotes for any
configuration you
might be interested in.

Scott--
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Scott Despain
Assistant Professor, Spanish
Foreign Languages & Literatures
Acting Executive Director, Foreign Languages Lab System
Office: Laundry 209 (FLTC)
Phone: 513-2461
email: [log in to unmask]
url: http://sasw.chass.ncsu.edu/fl/faculty/despain/

> >Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:27:07 +0200
> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information =
> Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
> >From: Marc Fryd <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Computer-based lang.labs
> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
>
> ------------------
> Hi to all,
> 1) Can anyone provide an estimate of the cost of a decent =
> 20-station
> computer-based language lab?
> I have read the exchange on the Sony 9000/ Tandberg + Prisma =
> solutions:
> what kind of investment are talking about here?
> 2) I am currently investigating the possibility of going totally =
> digital in
> a lang lab environment (that is without the use of any analog audio =
> source
> or wiring), for all types of applications including voice =
> (multipoint) but
> excluding video (too heavy for ethernet). Does anyone know of =
> existing
> solutions?=20
> Thanks in advance,
> Marc Fryd
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