Organizing a Language Lab Database Using Library Pilot - two case studies

Biographical Notes
Maria Erickson (not yet available)

Barbara Vigano was raised bilingually (French and German) in French speaking Switzerland. She holds an M.A. in French and an M.A. in German. Has taught French and German for the last 20 years.

She is past President of Southern California Chapter of American Association of Teachers of German. She has developed a 100 page packet, available in four languages, of instructional materials on ìFive World Revolutionsî

She was Chair of the Educational Technology Committee at Mt. San Antonio College and developed multimedia programs for French and German. She has created web sites with Discussion webs for all her French classes. She will demonstrate the interactive web site that she created for French 1 (http://vclass.mtsac.edu/french1).

Abstract

Mount San Antonio College and Santa Monica College both have brand new Tandberg Language Labs and have used Teleste’s Library Pilot to organize the database that the students use to find the material. We would like 1) to demonstrate the models that we have developed for each of our distinct situations and how our students navigate through the system to find what they need, 2) toexplain the rationale guiding the choices we have made in order to meet the needs of our different language programs, our faculty and our students and 3) to share our experiences working with this tool.

Method of Presentation:
Projection of materials from laptops, lecture and discussion.

Anticipated Benefit to Participants:
This presentation of two contrasting models would be beneficial to current users of Library Pilot and to participants exploring database organization for Language Labs.