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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1976)
AV & the Language Lab The eyes have it in Audio-Visual center Drawmg by Tina Fong “Ninety per cent of what we learn, we get through our eyes," says Audio-Visual director Kim Nelson. Her department is ready to help out the learning process with row after row of hardware: projectors, film editors, laminators, dry mounts and other machinery. The department has a long list of equipment and most of it is available for student use. Wander in to mount your prize photo of “Spot the Dog' with the dry mount machine or laminate your high school diploma. Use of the machines is free: all you need to bring are the materials. Most of the machines come equipped with instructional mater ial. Students learn to operate the equipment as they complete their projects. “They have the potential for doing something themselves without explicit guidance,'’ says Nelson. Self-instructional material is stored on 16-mm film and, ac cording to Nelson, the department stocks about 75 “how-to” film loops. She estimates that over 1,500 students use the media equip ment each year and she says that some of the machines “run practi cally constantly." The media center offers use of paper cutters, dry mounts, graphic copiers, stereos, recorders, pro jectors, laminators, slide sorters, opaque projection copying, and audio tape and record dubbing. The machines are available for use from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Some evening hours may also be scheduled soon. Students may check out some equipment for campus use if they obtain permission from a faculty member and assume responsibil ity for the machines The department also offers to show any available films to stu dents upon demand. A list of in structional films on campus is printed in the Emerald Briefs sec tion and a schedule of current film showings is posted in the AV de partment. The University owns about 800 films, according to Net son, and a broad selection of other films are rented for use in the classroom. Any student may re quest a film and view it in the media center. The department has a number of services available to professors for instructional use. The graphic arts department, headed by Helen Spiller, will prepare art displays, graphs and illustrations to order. Spiller oversees a staff of 12 work-study students each term. The AV staff will also produce or copy audio material and take photographs for instructional pur poses. The department maintains a film catalogue for ordering class rooms movies. Nelson advises professors to order commercial films two months in advance and specialized films six weeks ahead of time. Once the films are on campus, professors may request a showing of the movie by notify ing the AV department before 2:30 p.m., one day prior to the class Projection operators may be av ailable to show the film. Ear they are, from Spanish to Swedish The University Language Lab will otter students, faculty, and staff cassette tapes in thirteen languages from its new facility in the south basement of Friendly Hall The lab. with its 60 listening sta tions, has been operating for three years with modern cassette players and recording systems Thirty of these listening stations also include audio-comparators which enable language students to record their own voice and compare pronunciation with the lab recording The remaining thirty listening stations can be used for individual listening or group listening The lab is available for language clas ses as well as foreign film and lit erature classes The cassette library at the Lan guage Lab includes recordings in twelve foreign languages: Ro mance languages. French. Spanish, and Italian: Germanic languages, German, Dutch, Nor wegian and Swedish: the Slavic group, Russian, Polish, Serbo Croatian, and the Asian group, Chinese and Japanese. Besides serving foreign lan guage study, the language lab also offers recordings to compli ment study in three areas of ling uistics: English as a second lan guage, English (American) dialects and phonetics. Another service of the lab is cassette copying The lab techni cians will copy any tape free of charge as long as the original is COPIES 3*/jC KINKO’S 1128 Alder 344-7894 Also in Corvallis not copyrighted The lab, which falls under the supervision of the College of Lib eral Arts, will be open 8 a m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday from either 10 a m. to 2 p.m. or 9 a m. to 1 p.m. Evening hours will be Monday through Thursday for two hours. Directoi of the language lab. Professor James Hoard of the English De partment. says he is trying to ar range for enough help to keep the lab open at least three hours in the evening He welcomes all sugges tions for scheduling. ASUO Off-Campus Housing Are you renting your home? 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