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Hi, We have the old Sanako system when it was called Tandberg.

Our instructors did NOT adjust to it quickly.  We have had it for 6 years and they still are adjusting.  We try to adjust to what their level is.  Our goal is to "lure" one or two "new" professors into using the Sanako system each semester.  So we do a lot of "marketing" and training to our faculty about the wonderful advantages they can get from our system.  We have trained lab technicians who will take care of all the equipment and we tell the professor to just facilitate the class and let us know what their lesson plan is.  My staff are trained to offer suggestions--once they hear the lesson plan--on how to use some aspect of our system that they may or may not have been aware of to add a new layer to their lesson plan.  The professor will accept the suggestion or reject it based upon their goals and their comfort levels.

Starting last year we suddenly had a growing number of professors who wanted to take control of the technology as well as the lesson plan, so we eagerly encouraged them to do so.  Of course, as they learned one area of Sanako we would teach them another, so they often still need us.  But we try to be as hands on or hands off as the professors need and want.

Has Sanako increased our lab attendance?  Yes, definitely.  Once they start coming even once or twice a semester with their instructors into our "Smart Lab" where Sanako is, they tend to come back on their own to try out other software and other capabilities or our lab.  That's one of the reasons we try so hard to recruit professors to use our Smart Lab.  For each professor, we get hundreds of hours in lab attendance (and thus funding) per semester.

We don't come close to fully utilizing the Sanako system, but that gives me hope because there continues to be new ways our instructors can use the equipment so they don't get bored.  I find that my staff like to learn new things about Sanako one at a time.  Then once they have learned that new thing; they turn around and promote it to the instructors.  Then I can introduce a new aspect of it to my staff.

Sorry to be longwinded.  Hope this helps.  

Peggy C. Marcy
Supervisor Language Learning Center
Mt. San Antonio College
Walnut, CA  91789