--- Forwarded Message from "L. Friend" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:28:50 -0800 (PST)
>From: "L. Friend" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5925 Keyboards for Russian, etc.
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
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Judy,
Try World Language Resources at http://www.worldlanguage.com
Search by Products, then Keyboards.
Or go directly to:
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Laura Friend, M.A. "[log in to unmask]" (206) 685-9401
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Language Learning Center
University of Washington
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, LLTI-Editor wrote:
> --- Forwarded Message from Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:25:04 -0500
> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
> >From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Keyboards for Russian, etc.
>
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> After a long year of fighting to keep the identity of the language lab as we
> move from analog to digital, I am now suddenly handed extra space and the
> delightful mandate to come up with an "open" lab design.
>
> I am hoping that the techs involved won't be horrified that I want to
> include several different builds (and probably a cluster of Macs in a
> generally Windows lab) to accomodate the possibilities of wordprocessing in
> Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic, and probably Yoruba, as well as the Roman-based
> Chinese, Japanese, and International systems we already have in place. A
> phonetics system would be good, too. Obviously, this will involve a lot of
> consulting with the faculty about the right keyboarding system to use. I'd
> love advice from others who have been able to set up a lab like this.
>
> I had a brilliant idea the other night, which I suspect may have come from
> an old LLTI thread, that we could buy extra keyboards and cap them with the
> characters for the various languages, and then check them out to students
> wanting to use that particular system. Is this something others have done?
> Any advice about how to do it? Is there a good source for the key caps?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Judy Shoaf
> University of Florida
> Gainesville
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