--- Forwarded Message from TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> --- >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:47:21 -0600 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #5753.1Macs but not another platform discussion please (!) ------------------ Even those of our students who think that Macintish is the Antichrist seem to like the iMacs, and they seem to be holding up well in a lab running 600 student practice hours/week. We had one bad from the box. As far as software is concerned, our big target is the first three semesters. When teachers choose a textbook with a fully integrated software program, it is always biplatformed. In the one small class where an instructor chose an independant piece of sontware, she bought an all-Windows program, which we can run in another lab. Ine feature the students like is the ease of making accents. All regular faculty (7) spend 3 of their 6 required office hours working in the lab, and all are learning new things about the MACs. They seem content that you can use common sense to get around problems. The iMACs are transparent in more than one way. TBob Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D. Director, the Globe-Gate Project Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center University of Tennessee-Martin http://globegate.org/french/globe.html e-mail [log in to unmask]