--- Forwarded Message from "L. Friend" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:28:50 -0800 (PST) >From: "L. Friend" <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #5925 Keyboards for Russian, etc. >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ Judy, Try World Language Resources at http://www.worldlanguage.com Search by Products, then Keyboards. Or go directly to: http://secure.worldlanguage.com/world/cfm/shopbytype.cfm?searchtypeid=22 *<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*> Laura Friend, M.A. "[log in to unmask]" (206) 685-9401 Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures Language Learning Center University of Washington On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, LLTI-Editor wrote: > --- Forwarded Message from Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> --- > > >Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:25:04 -0500 > >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> > >From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: Keyboards for Russian, etc. > > ------------------ > After a long year of fighting to keep the identity of the language lab as we > move from analog to digital, I am now suddenly handed extra space and the > delightful mandate to come up with an "open" lab design. > > I am hoping that the techs involved won't be horrified that I want to > include several different builds (and probably a cluster of Macs in a > generally Windows lab) to accomodate the possibilities of wordprocessing in > Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic, and probably Yoruba, as well as the Roman-based > Chinese, Japanese, and International systems we already have in place. A > phonetics system would be good, too. Obviously, this will involve a lot of > consulting with the faculty about the right keyboarding system to use. I'd > love advice from others who have been able to set up a lab like this. > > I had a brilliant idea the other night, which I suspect may have come from > an old LLTI thread, that we could buy extra keyboards and cap them with the > characters for the various languages, and then check them out to students > wanting to use that particular system. Is this something others have done? > Any advice about how to do it? Is there a good source for the key caps? > > Many thanks. > > Judy Shoaf > University of Florida > Gainesville >