--- Forwarded Message from Beth Secrist <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:08:34 +0000 >From: Beth Secrist <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #4845.4 Any labs using iMacs? (!) >References: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------2458AEA6B733409648F55836 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Otmar, I found your information on developments on the Mac side of things fascinating. I do have a question, however, about how student input or student interaction works in these environments. When a publisher's tape is made available in QT3, how is student input handled? Is it recorded and stored on the individual machine's hard drive, can it be written to the server and easily played back, similar to a regular lab environment? Can the recording easily include the master track with the student's voice? Are these sorts of activities what you were referring to when you spoke of the "lab" being "a production point, delivery point, and testing point"? I probably got confused when you referred to the "lab", which I understand you to mean as the turn-key type system (analog or digital) which most of us have today. Just curious, but how far do you (and other LLTIers) think we are from being able to do without the turn-key systems and move completely to a standard computer environment for "lab" and computer activities? Thank you again for the information on developments on the Mac side. Beth Beth Secrist, Director Language Resource Center Dept. of Modern Foreign Langs. & Lits. University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 (423)974-6494; [log in to unmask] --------------2458AEA6B733409648F55836 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="bsecrist.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Beth Secrist Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="bsecrist.vcf" begin:vcard n:Secrist;Beth tel;fax:(423)974-2313 tel;work:(423)974-6494 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:web.utk.edu/~bsecrist org:University of Tennessee;Dept. of Modern Foreign Langs. & Lits adr:;;701 McClung Tower;Knoxville;Tennessee;37996;USA version:2.1 email;internet:[log in to unmask] title:Director, Language Resource Center x-mozilla-cpt:;1 fn:Beth Secrist end:vcard --------------2458AEA6B733409648F55836--