--- Forwarded Message from Lorraine Williams <[log in to unmask]> ---
>From: Lorraine Williams <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "'LLTI-Editor'" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #5308 Email Prevention and Cure?
>Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 09:34:09 -0500
I've wondered about how to handle this myself. There are two cases in which
I will ask someone to leave and go to a different computer lab: One is if
the lab has been reserved for a class and the other is if there are no
computers available and someone is obviously NOT doing language work.
It is often difficult to tell, too, if someone is doing language work. What
might look like personal email may in fact be an email assignment to a
teacher. Sometimes it is just personal email. This is the only computer
lab on campus that has word processing in different languages, so I even
encourage the use of the programs (to write in Japanese, for example) so our
ESL students can write home to their parents. I think it's good for the
American students to see that, too, so they realize the resources are here
for them to learn to write in other languages.
Much of the time these decisions depend upon the resources and when they are
needed and by whom. I have no problem kicking someone out when it isn't
necessary that they are here and the resources are needed by someone doing
language work. If not, I let them stay. This is a safe haven for a lot of
international students who just feel comfortable here and I like to
encourage that. If we didn't have so many ESL students, I might feel
differently.
(Isn't it funny that we are communicating this way, Sue, when we are only a
couple of miles apart?)
Lorraine Williams
Language Technology Coordinator
Saint Michael's College
Box L / 1 Winooski Park
Colchester, VT 05439
(802) 654-2475
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Subject: #5308 Email Prevention and Cure?
--- Forwarded Message from "Sue Breeyear"
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>From: "Sue Breeyear" <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: UVM, College of Arts & Sciences
>To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 08:56:02 -0400EDT
>Subject: Email Prevention and Cure?
>Priority: normal
>In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]>
I'm finding that my language-only computer lab is being overrun
with both language and non-language students sneaking in to look
at their email throughout the day, not to mention my staff's
penchant for sitting for hours in front of the computers writing to
friends. Since I don't have time to sit at the door and police
everybody when they come in, I wondered what solution you all
may be using to prevent the overuse of email in your labs. I don't
want to entirely do away with students' ability to use email, as
some of the instructors want our language students to write to
students at universities from the target language countries--
however, it's driving me crazy to wander into the computer lab and
see eight or ten people chatting on my expensive computers! Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Sue
Susan Breeyear, Language Resource Center Coordinator
200 Southwick Building
University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont 05405
VOICE:802-656-7856
FAX: 802-656-0212
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmlrc/index.html
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