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
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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.
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