Greetings: The IALLT Language Center Design Kit is being updated, and as one of the module authors I am in the process of revising the section I wrote for the 2003 edition. I am working on the module entitled "Special Needs and Usages to be Considered in Designing a New Center." This module is intended to help a Director anticipate additional potential uses of the Language Center ... beyond just being "a lab." My goal is to make this revision relevant to our current (2010 and beyond) surroundings and realities. As I did for the last version, I would like to ask for input from the LLTI readership. In 2003, the additional spaces and places to be included in a Center that were suggested by all of you were: Smart Classrooms Multimedia Authoring/Faculty Workstations Audio/Video Recording Studios Small Multipurpose Viewing Rooms Larger Film Screening Spaces Individual Student Media Stations Discipline Specific Spaces (ASL training, LCTL meeting space) An office for the Director Space for Support Staff Storage Space A server room (if you have servers) Lounge Additional considerations: open cable runs (wiring outside of the wall vs inside) so wiring can change if need be both wired and wireless access If you were planning a Center today, knowing what you do about working with faculty, student and the instructional technology that connects them...what possible uses/ spaces would you recc'd be included? Let me know if you would like to be cited for your contributions. Feel free to respond here or to me directly. Thanks! Barbara -- Barbara Sawhill Director, Cooper International Learning Center Lecturer, Hispanic Studies Oberlin College http://languages.oberlin.edu ph: 440-775-8595 blog: http://languagelabunleashed.org twitter: bsawhill skype: barbarasawhill sl: Barbara Pluto *********************************************** 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. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************