--- Forwarded Message from Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:45:42 -0500 >From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 >To: llti <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Jules & Jim Interactif problems One of our instructors adopted this interactive DVD from Thompson-Heinle. It is posing a problem because it will not play on many computers. It has no helpful information about requirements (I am guessing that Quicktime is needed but that is not specified). The number one calls for help is pretty useless (oh, yeah, an interactive DVD? Probably you need to upgrade your Flash...). The instructor told me that when she sent an email to the address specified she got a reply saying that address was essentially out of order.... For a while the only computer in our open lab where one could use it was the one in my office. Two students came in with copies they had purchased and tried it on that computer and it would not open, but our lab copy would open every time. The instructor wanted a classroom where she could demonstrate the DVD and run through some exercises in class. She tried 2 different regular classrooms but the DVD would not play (though it plays on her office computer). So last week I tested it on the instructor computer in one of our classrooms, and it played fine; I booked her into the twin classroom (whose instructor computer drive is a clone of the one that played the DVD). Today we tried 2 different copies of the DVD on the two instructor computers--the one in the room I assigned and the one on which I had been able to run the disc last week. The results varied: sometimes it crashed the computer (a "stop error"). Sometimes it just hung after one clicked on the "open" button, continuing the process of opening for as long as one might wish, but never actually showing the interface. Is anyone else using this item successfully (or not) please let me know. Judy *********************************************** 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]) ***********************************************