--- Forwarded Message from sorgengd <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:49:36 -0700 >Sender: sorgengd <[log in to unmask]> >From: sorgengd <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: #7154 Monitor functions for French ------------------ As the original user of LangLab, I am quite surprised to read about its "flunking" for Reed. Several years ago, I was faced with the same problem currrently facing Reed: the analog language lab was not going to be either updated or replaced. Just a few individual practice booths with analog cassette recorders were kept . LangLab has proved a terrific replacement for my Phonetics and Listening Comprehension Course. My students and I love being through with cassettes (some use them in other language classes and will bring up comparisons) --and even more with cassettes getting stuck or breaking on test and exam days! Real time as well as asynchronous monitoring (for comments on home practice, quizzes and exams) have turned out to be simpler, quicker and more convenient than with the old cassette system. Last I checked, three other large multi-sectional courses, mainly from Asian languages, have been using the Monitor and Teacher functions at Berkeley. I'll be presenting my uses of LangLab in one of my sessions at IALLT and would be happy to try and answer any questions that might have come up for users or potential users at any time during the Ann Arbor conference. If I can't understand the particular parameters of your lab setup, I'll refer you to LangLab's techsupport . Please feel free to email me off list as well. If I can help, I gladly will. Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt Senior Lecturer in French French Department #2580 Berkeley CA 94720-2580 510 642 2182 510 845 2086 >===== Original Message From Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> ===== >--- Forwarded Message from Betty Woerner <[log in to unmask]> --- > >>Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 12:25:51 -0700 (PDT) >>From: Betty Woerner <[log in to unmask]> >>To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> >>Subject: Monitor functions for French > >Our French dept. uses our old Sony tape lab to monitor classes while they >do their individual tape exercises. The lab is falling apart and we need >to come up with something, hopefully not Sony, Tandberg, ASC or similar, >that will allow them to listen in while students are doing oral >exercises, preferably as audio files in a voiceover situation. >We just had a demo of UC Berkeley's LangLab, which flunked miserably. Is >there anything else out there? Our fallback position would have to be a >wireless tape lab, but I hate to sink money into tape technology. > >Ideas? > >Thanks, >Betty Woerner >Media Librarian >Reed College >Portland, OR