--- Forwarded Message from Lorraine Williams <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: Lorraine Williams <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'LLTI-Editor'" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: #5308 Email Prevention and Cure? >Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 09:34:09 -0500 I've wondered about how to handle this myself. There are two cases in which I will ask someone to leave and go to a different computer lab: One is if the lab has been reserved for a class and the other is if there are no computers available and someone is obviously NOT doing language work. It is often difficult to tell, too, if someone is doing language work. What might look like personal email may in fact be an email assignment to a teacher. Sometimes it is just personal email. This is the only computer lab on campus that has word processing in different languages, so I even encourage the use of the programs (to write in Japanese, for example) so our ESL students can write home to their parents. I think it's good for the American students to see that, too, so they realize the resources are here for them to learn to write in other languages. Much of the time these decisions depend upon the resources and when they are needed and by whom. I have no problem kicking someone out when it isn't necessary that they are here and the resources are needed by someone doing language work. If not, I let them stay. This is a safe haven for a lot of international students who just feel comfortable here and I like to encourage that. If we didn't have so many ESL students, I might feel differently. (Isn't it funny that we are communicating this way, Sue, when we are only a couple of miles apart?) Lorraine Williams Language Technology Coordinator Saint Michael's College Box L / 1 Winooski Park Colchester, VT 05439 (802) 654-2475 [log in to unmask] ---------- From: LLTI-Editor [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 3:13 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: #5308 Email Prevention and Cure? --- Forwarded Message from "Sue Breeyear" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Sue Breeyear" <[log in to unmask]> >Organization: UVM, College of Arts & Sciences >To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 08:56:02 -0400EDT >Subject: Email Prevention and Cure? >Priority: normal >In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]> I'm finding that my language-only computer lab is being overrun with both language and non-language students sneaking in to look at their email throughout the day, not to mention my staff's penchant for sitting for hours in front of the computers writing to friends. Since I don't have time to sit at the door and police everybody when they come in, I wondered what solution you all may be using to prevent the overuse of email in your labs. I don't want to entirely do away with students' ability to use email, as some of the instructors want our language students to write to students at universities from the target language countries-- however, it's driving me crazy to wander into the computer lab and see eight or ten people chatting on my expensive computers! Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Sue Susan Breeyear, Language Resource Center Coordinator 200 Southwick Building University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont 05405 VOICE:802-656-7856 FAX: 802-656-0212 email: [log in to unmask] http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmlrc/index.html