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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6296.human touch in the lab

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We have a nearly all digital lab, and while we are going to acquire 
or design a time and task accounting system, there is a lot of human 
contact involved here.  First of all, faculty are expected to 
contribute one half of their office hours to working in the lab, 
helping students.  When I am not on duty (16 to 18 hours per week), 
and I peek in, I often see faculty working with groups of students at 
machines. Students sign up for 2 hours per week.  We are currently 
running an estimated 720 hours of student tech-supported activity per 
week in a lab where there are between 18 and 20 functioning machines 
at any given time.  The staff (and sometimes faculty) work hard to 
bring up machines which often have only minor problems.  Our student 
assistants, with one or two exceptions, are simply randomly chosen by 
work-study administrators, so we have to train them
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Robert D. Peckham, PhD
Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
Director, the Globegate Project
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