--- Forwarded Message from "Bob Peckham" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: Reasons why the language lab will not disappear >Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:49:21 -0600 >Thread-Topic: Reasons why the language lab will not disappear >Thread-Index: Acp6geMLRepMYU5iTNigYbr6k5WWBg== >From: "Bob Peckham" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> Out hear in fly-over country, where folks don't have broadband in their trailers or cable at a farm 15 miles outside of town, Students find it difficult to handle streaming video-based assignments. If they have not crippled their home machines trying to escape Vista by loading up Windows 7, they usually discover that their inexpensive laptop does not have a built-in mic, and since they are not going to invest in a high-quality mic, they find it quite convenient to use our lowly iMacs in the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/lab.shtml I have seen a number of institutions which have abandoned labs and have had to make a number of compromises in what they expect students to accomplish. Of course, if all your students are wealthy and living in a lap-of-luxury apartment dorm with network redundancy... TBob Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D Professor of French Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238 Email: [log in to unmask] *********************************************** 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]) ***********************************************