--- Forwarded Message from "Mariana Pomphile" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:34:08 -0400 >From: "Mariana Pomphile" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7135.6 lab attendance tracking (!) Because language learning is largely based in contact hours with the language is that faculty here require/suggest/invite students to go to the lab, it has nothing to do with appeasing anything for us. THen in terms of checking what they do while they are here, we have taken the time to create numerous materials with movies and other things to encourage students to do things other than the typical (sometimes boring) lab manual. We then not only monitor from the main desk what everyone is doing but also students are most times invovled in an activity that requires some form of production that they have to turn in at the end. So we check attendance and what they do while they are here, both. It is more work but we have added this two years ago and it has helped students so... Mariana Mariana Pomphile Language Lab Director Department of Language and Literature North Georgia College & State University (706) 864-1682