--- Forwarded Message from "Dartmouth College LISTSERV Server (15.0)" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:58:05 -0500 >From: "Dartmouth College LISTSERV Server (15.0)" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: LLTI: approval required (7801BAFF) >To: [log in to unmask] Greetings all, Our languages curriculum is expanding to include more student-created multimedia, which is swell -- but with curricular modernization comes the associated snag of providing adequate storage space for these projects, both mid-creation (particularly in the extreme case of hours of raw digital film footage) and archival. Students @ Bates have access to their own server space but their quota is insufficient for anything but small files. I am currently using a couple of 200gig portable hard drives but this places an untenable demand on my and my interns' time and compromises the security of the saved materials, therefore am whipping up a new server request for my lab. To get a best-practice sense of what's working for others out in language-center-land, a query for you all: What is your current practice vis-a-vis storage for larger media projects? (Say, a French class with 5 student films with 12 gigs of raw footage each.) Do you run your own in-house languages server? How large for how many students? Have a piece of a larger campus server? Use portable hard drives? Thumbs? DVDs? How are you archiving projects at semesters' end? thanks for any & all insights, Ellen *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************