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January 31, 2008

Thursday evening

First of all, I want to say that my world news news is not published :( should I change something? ... anyway. Today it has been quite quiet . Mamoru, Heiki and other people came to watch the japanese movie. I worked on the atajo project. The lamps are very cool! well done :) I would just say, let's keep the lights of most of them off when we are not using them... is that possible (not all of them because it would be extremely dark... but most... so that we are energy efficient ! ) ok... have a great weekend, chao :)

Posted by lnorrisc at 08:50 PM

Thursday evening

Posted by lnorrisc at 07:24 PM

Howie's 5:00 to 7:00

Jacob finished fixing the LLC blog and gave Andy and Zhanna a tutorial on how to update the World News blog. Several people were working in the lab around 5 PM. Natalia is really ready for News Orlean. In case I don't see you tomorrow, have a blast Natalia!

Posted by hpham at 07:14 PM

hi i fixed yr blog

The Willamette World News blog is now working as intended. The key was to change Preferred Archive Type under Publishing Settings from "Category" to "Individual."

ALSO: Andy and Zhanna now know everything there is to know about updating the website ;-)

Posted by at 06:32 PM

Thursday afternoon

Fun day - as you can probably see, we got the New and Improved lamps all set up, complete with bulbs. It looks just great, so the rule is no more florescent lights, ever.

I also copied a book for Natalia, a Japanese student and the visiting Japanese professor are here hanging out, along with Jacob working on WWN.

Posted by at 04:04 PM

Sascha's 1230-1400 shift

Today's shift was quiet. No customer came in. Eddie from the physical plant came in though to work on something in the ceiling. Lucia and Beyza were also here. Hope that everybody has a wonderful weekend!

Posted by aschilba at 02:10 PM

Thurs 9:30-11:30

Quiet shift, found Marta's USB drive and put it in the heart-shaped basket.
People started coming in the last 30 minutes of the shift, Beyza, Dimitri, and two guys recording Chinese with audacity.
Sometimes an error comes up when using audacity about the sound input, just go into "tools" and "preferences" then change the input device until it works.

Posted by anave at 11:19 AM

January 30, 2008

wednesday before focus the nation

Today, Natalya was here finishing working on details before her trip, Beysa was working on her projects, Kindra came around for a little bi. I opened the Rosetta Stone for Latin and I did the whole first exercise for the 1rst level "puer et scapha, Puella sub pila, vir et femina, vir in mensa, elephantus et canis, puella et felles" are things that I learnt, I recommend you to check your favorite one. We need to put the Latin c.d. somewhere in the black cd folder, sorry, I don't know what is the procedure, can someone tell me how to do it? or do it? I will put the Latin cd back in the Rosetta Box. By the way the new headphones are super good.

Posted by lnorrisc at 06:42 PM

today

- Figuring stuff for World News
- Sacha was getting frustrated with the video clip...
- Put Japanese movie in the teaching station, please make sure it works at 6:30pm?

Posted by zgres at 05:03 PM

Sascha's long long long shift

Today's shift was the craziest shift I've had. I did alot of things and now need to have some bloodsugar. Heiki, I saved the correct program to the desktop. I didn't use the ones that you had because there was no audio to go with the video. Let's talk about it. I talked to Kris Lou and he didn't seem to concerned about the timeframe. OK I think that is all. I helped a Spainish professor with the scanner in the MMWR and wow that took a really long and involved time. Anyway have a good shift.

Posted by aschilba at 04:39 PM

Wed.........

Worked a bit more on the draft e-mail for the Abroad Talk with Heiki. We now need to coordinate technology with persuasive argument and get this thing off the ground. Also worked with Natalia about the Language blogs, I'll try so send out the suggestions for that to the right people soon.

Posted by at 04:38 PM

natalia is a star chef

willamette abroad talk blog feed now works
brown bag series now up under add'l resources > faculty

Posted by at 01:49 PM

Developments on Abroad Talk:
- wrote intro
- intro did not show up on main page, Jacob fixed it (Atom feed apparently did not work)
- reviewed the draft letter with Kindra's wonderful additions
-- will tomorrow add the addressees to Abroad bloggers and e-mail

Other
- trying to burn another copy of the DVD for Kris Lou
- gave my 2 cents on the lamps saga

Posted by heesmaa at 11:52 AM

Wed 8-9

Quiet shift, no one came in...

Posted by anave at 08:50 AM

Kelsey's Shift 7-9pm

It was a nice quiet shift. Lucia was in, as was Heiki for a while. Then Heiki went off to help host the Swedish movie night in the small viewing room. That seemed to be a success. :-)

Posted by kherb at 12:02 AM

January 29, 2008

Tuesday

Worked on Abroad Talk with Heiki. Looked at more lamps. Printed out some things for Prof. Yashchenko.

Posted by at 04:41 PM

tuesday

-this morning, matsuhashi's class came in, all went well with that but it was a pretty quiet shift.

Posted by afrackel at 12:07 PM

January 28, 2008

Monday evening

The days are getting longer... how exciting! Today, a Spanish student came and she wanted to correct a paper, I showed her ATAJO and Natalya showed her the way to correct Spanish Grammar in Word. I sent an email to Professor Maria Delgado to ask her about the info to put in Atajo. I also wrote my first blog. Heiki, and other spanish student came around. Buenas noches!

Posted by lnorrisc at 07:48 PM

Sascha's shift

Today was a busy and productive day. Elizabeth, Beyza, Sydney, Ana, guys working on Russian RS, Lucia, Jacob, Misuzu. These were some of the many faces that graced the LLC today. I helped this guy with skype and mixxer. Kelsey, I think that on Monday morning someone should print out a hard copy of google calender for the LLC lab schedule and tape it to the door to WLTN 21. That way, it is out and about if people need it. Just a thought. Also, there is a birthday card for Raution that needs to be signed by everybody... it is located in the black cabinet by the pink heart key holder.

Posted by aschilba at 03:54 PM

!

fixed some links and assorted discrepancies; updated the abroad page to encompass the emerging talk blog

Posted by at 01:25 PM

Monday

Looked up instructions on how to use Quicktime broadcaster...if anyone knows where the LLC document (if there is one) on this topic, could you please give that information to Natalia? Also discussed the new abroad blogs and made coffee.

Posted by at 11:22 AM

Monday 8-9

Quiet shift, Misuzu wanted to reserve Walton 21, and a few people came to work on computers (chinese recording)

Posted by anave at 08:51 AM

January 27, 2008

Sunday evening

Admired the new LLC lamps. They are very nice. I straightened the lab and Beyza came in to print something. A few students came in to use Walton 21 for studying around 9:30. I just asked them to put anything they moved back into place.

Posted by at 11:07 PM

Sunday is funday....little work

It was quite evening untill I hear the phone beep and it was from Natalia ...stating concern about the big room's mess on weekends...I had tried to keep a watch on it and have asked Kindra to do the same....

Posted by rjaiswal at 08:05 PM

January 26, 2008

Saturday

Plugged in the lamps. They all work and give off a very bright white glow. No one came in.

Posted by at 05:46 PM

Saturday shift

One person came to use the Rossetta Stone software but left after 5 minutes! Really quiet shift!

Posted by hpham at 02:06 PM

January 25, 2008

yo yo yo yo yo

introduced code to truncate rogue abroad blog abstracts to 40-word maximum
installed questionmark authoring manager software to audition for the new spanish placement test
righteous

Posted by at 12:55 PM

Friday 8-9

Quiet shift, Ivo and Heiki came in to work on some things, And I checked the microphone input for the Chinese classes coming in today. (No problems, just have students adjust volume if it's too static-y)

What's going on with the online assistant's schedule? Every time I check it it seems different.

Posted by anave at 08:52 AM

January 24, 2008

Kelsey's Shift 7-9pm

It was a fairly busy shift for the evening. Two students came in for help with audacity, two came in to use Atajo; Lucia was in working on various projects; Howie stayed late to work on the video project; Sascha was hanging out in WLT21; and I fixed up the schedule and worked on the faculty xls.

All in all, it was a very pleasant shift. I just discovered that captivate is not on any of our computers. If it is at all possible, can someone download it to comp A in the morning (you will need Natalia as the admin on this one). Thanks, and Happy Friday!

Posted by kherb at 08:50 PM

thursday

please watch the following:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkD1VdwRB8A

Thank you.

Many people working in the lab right now - people using Atajo, Lucia is here looking beautiful after her interview, a girl looking for a specific Live from Moscow CD (which we don't have), Beyza , Raution, Howie, Natalia, busy busy busy.

Posted by at 04:56 PM

playdough hippos and bodies green

many things were not left unaccomplished
in the beginning skype was used by lucia and dimitry
we had someone who employed atajo
professor loftus passed by and now i can put a face to his name!
sascha and i crossed into montag domain and investigated
the following: dish channel 591 and 751
printed the w21 schedule, and highlighted
class times--it is now posted on the portentous w21 door
i made a skype account: leafy_ears (add me!)

!!!!!

Posted by byavuz at 03:26 PM

Sascha's shift

Today was a busy shift. I helped Elizabeth organize her Skype and Mixxer contacts. She knows how to use Skype now and also has all of her contacts loaded onto her account. Then I gave her a tutorial about Skype's basic functions and buttons. (Laugh Zhanna laugh...) Beyza and I checked Montag den big screen tv for a certain satellite channel. They didn't have it and that is all she wrote for that. Just a hint, when there is nobody in WLTN 21 it is really pleasant to open the door. This lowers the temperature of the crucible that we call the LLC.

Posted by aschilba at 02:32 PM

Thurs 9:30-11:30

Quiet, worked on wordchamp and made a few flashcards, I'll try to get skype later today...

Posted by anave at 11:22 AM

thursday morning

-updated the events on the site, changed the code so now we can see five events at a time! let me know if more or less is better.
-updated more current courses...now the only one left is classics..
happy almost friday.

Posted by afrackel at 09:20 AM

January 23, 2008

Wednesday

A nice shift after tasty pizza and helpful training.

Caroline came in and we discussed options with Wordchamp for the two German classes - decided to set up a class for the first year students and let the second year students have independent accounts.

Misuzu was here for a movie night so I showed her how to make microwave popcorn.

I got the Japanese movie out of 21 and it is in the black cabinet.

Posted by at 09:20 PM

Wednesday shift

There was training going on. I uploaded the minutes on the training. I started designing the campaign for attracting "Independent Learners" to the LLC.

Nos vemos pronto!

Posted by lnorrisc at 09:18 PM

Training

Training of Wednesday: If you want to read what I could get about our Training please read more...

Some of the ideas:
Learn how to work the projector
Make sure to know the opening and closing procedures for the LLC
Namecards for some people have to be made
Explore the new website in order to know what is there (Schedules for example)
Everyone should: learn a language with Rosetta or Tell me more and open a Skype account.
Write your shift on the blog and read all the shifts from your last one.

Ok... hope the document is understandable! Everytime you read "I" it means "Natalya ". Iit was great to share some learning and pizza with you guys! chao chao :)

Training LLC: Wednesday 23rd 2008.
How to make sure we project the computer screen?

The remote has a computer, VCR button.

Opening and closing procedures.

Heiki thinks we should put this procedures on the cabinet.
Get the key, come in, and unlock the door in between the LLC and the class.

Sometimes campus safety forgets to open the door to the class so get in the class and prop the door for the student to come.

Then turn on the computers and put the cards.

Namecards for Heiki, Zhanna, Jacob, Sam…

Cleaning schedule
Everyone will have to clean something in their shift.

New website
Jacob did the new website. Updates and training will be held with Jacob. Whoever wants to get trained has to talk to Natalya first. If you are editing first ou have to get in the LLC mapdrive first. Natalya thinks there should be a step by step format on how to do it.

Zan is going to be maintaining the events, and the stuff that Stacey has in the international office. So if someone wants to add an event please tell Zan.

Orientations for classes.
There have been many classes for orientations. It is important that they understand what the LLC has for them. For example, today a Spanish class, we tell them about Willamette abroad and World news and then specific things for them, for example today we showed them “ATAJO”. Mostly is talking about resources in general.

Audacity, and Blackboard, dropbox

LLC Help Desk has the explanation for how to use Audacity. After recording, save the file anywhere and then upload it in blackboard.

There are classes in the LLC, there is a sign on the door

The small viewing room has a sign that says “room is in session”. For example on Wednesday there is a Russian class, then you remind yourself that you shouldn’t get in there.

LLC Internal

There is the schedule for Walton 21, etc. It would be nice that there is a link for the schedule of the small room.

Signs

There is a new sign on top of the door, and there are other signs like the one that says “Room is occupied” in the small viewing room.
There is the bulletin board that is almost complete; Chris is doing a template for all Willamette Abroad and World News people.

There is software for independent learning.

There is a shelf full of independent learning software. We have quite a few people learning by themselves. A guy from law school that is learning Arabic, another that is learning Russian, someone is doing Hebrew, someone Latin. I thought it would be very good to us to learn by ourselves so that we know how it works. On your shifts take a language of your choice on each category.

Categories:
Tell me more.
Rossetta Stone

Check out procedure:

Take the clipboard, sign the name, date and time, and what is the program checked out. Then they bring it back and you check the software in.

We are a service department; I would like to remind you to be aware that you are here to greet people and acknowledge their arrival, turn around and ask them what they need. Please take the headphones off and

Headphones: we have 10 new head sets of USB. We might start to give the independent learners some of this head sets.

It would be good to put the information on how to use it on seedwiki.

Rossetta
Take a look at it and put a document up to explain how it works (Lucia, Amy …)

There are two black folders labeled, put the cd’s back where they came from.

ATAJO SYSTEM

Writing assistant for Spanish, there is a virtual tour in the LLC page under Spanish, Writing and Grammar.

French: Under “references” is the same kind of thing but for French. We should move it to the “Writing and Grammar” thing.

MIXXER

Everyone should make an account. Put the name, email and contact for Skype account on the webpage. Everybody should set up a Skype account. Mixxer is on the web page under additional resources. You sign in. You say when can you come and then you receive an email and then chat.

WORDCHAMP

It is also under “Additional Resources”. You can make your own list of flashcards. All the words have audio.

Please be sensitive to the issue and try to use your time wisely when there is no one to help.

WILLAMETTE ABROAD AND WORLD NEWS

Heiki and Jacob are doing the project of Willamette Abroad. It is organized on the front webpage. There is the bulletin board.

SKYPE AND WEBCAMS

Mixxer and Skype will be connected. The new webcams have microphones

Cameras are plugged in front.

Walton 21

Problems next door: Projector, Computers, Audio, Combination, DVD doesn’t work. How do we deal with the situation? You check the most important things, 5 minutes max. Nothing works. Magic number Front office across from the Computer Lab: # 6004, front office upstairs.

The first things to check:
Projector: 2 major buttons: red one at the side for things to show on the screen.

Sound: another button at the bottom of the unit of the teaching station piece.

If a person is showing a DVD. The button on the teaching station should say DVD.

Schedules

They are on the front page

Assistants
Walton 21 (internal)
LLC Lab (index page)

Jacob is going to add “Viewing room”

Faculty approaching to you
You can take the materials, put them to the cabinet and send them all to me. Don’t make any decisions on your own. You can check the lab, tell them it is looking good and then tell me.

We are service people, it is a very demanding occupation because often you work so hard and people don’t note it.

Introduce yourself first, whoever comes from outside doesn’t feel as comfortable as you feel here. In the blog put the name of the professor and which department he/she comes from. You are in the position to host and to welcome.
"Everybody at some point in life should work as a waitress…" we are not serving coffee… but it is a good skill to develop to be patient. The different temperaments, cultures, languages, will be a good preparation for life.

Blog entries:

It is a must. And also to read everything that happened from your last shift to your shift.

If someone can't come, they should let Natalya know on her cell phone or email with enough anticipation.

Posted by lnorrisc at 08:25 PM

Wednesday

- Japanese movie is playing
- Training in LLc

Posted by zgres at 07:13 PM

Sascha's shift

Today was a good day. I did a number of odd jobs and helped students with various programs. Many people were in... I am sorry for cluttering peoples inboxes with the reminder. It is weird, I cannot remember for the life of me anything to write on here even though I think I am forgetting something.

Posted by aschilba at 04:00 PM

Sascha's shift

A couple of important notes: The Russian Video for the upper level Russian students is sitting on the whiteboard under PYCC VIDEO.

Posted by aschilba at 02:01 PM

website

Re: Kelsey's suggestions earlier, I originally removed sidebar links from the Abroad page at Heiki's suggestion so I suppose the three of us should agree on something. The World News page is on MovableType so I have no control over the sidebar links there. I did change the students-abroad list as per the memo from Stacy. The list of blogs that don't (yet ;-) ) exist and hence to gray out is updated automatically; llc/abroad/students.txt is the abroad list updated manually and pretty straightforward to edit. cheers

Posted by at 11:41 AM

kelsey's shift

sorry that this is late. I helped Raution and Howie get started with the FGR project. We had a lot of issues with DVD burning, but we are much closer than when we started. That's good, right?

Also, a couple of ladies from FGR's French class came in for Audacity tutorials and one stayed to do her recording. Other than that, Lucia was my only visitor (she brought delicious cookies!).

Posted by kherb at 10:46 AM

Wed 8-9

Spanish class came in, and natalia introduced them to the lab.
cleared most of the voice mails in the phone as well.

Posted by anave at 09:02 AM

January 22, 2008

Tuesday

Met with Natalia and Stacy West to talk about the new Abroad Blogs. Stacy liked the idea of group blogs, and promised to send us names of people who might like to be involved. Stacy also went through the current blogs and asked is we could make these changes...

Remove from the abroad blog list because they are not abroad...
Italy: Anne Coleman
Australia: Caprielle Barlow
France: Jessica Smith, Caitlin Stevenson
Mexico: Haley Weed
New Zealand: Isabelle Shankar
Oman: remove category completely
U.S.: Colin Gardiner

Add to the blogs...
Japan: Stephanie Scudder

Change...
Ildi Hrubos is currently in the Netherlands. She should be in Australia.

Posted by nshevche at 04:49 PM

martes

one guy used rosseta russian for quite some time
natalia had her interview w/ perspective german prof
discussed world soccer w/ prof fofana -yay
wwn meeting in a few hrs!

Posted by byavuz at 03:10 PM

tuesday

-went to various labs (library, smullin, etc) to check out error messages in atajo, systeme d and le petit robert. LPR is fine, in the dictionary of systeme d when you click on a new word, "error saving new file" pops up. in atajo, when loading an error pops up saying "please put the cd in drive in order to listen to sound and examples"

Posted by afrackel at 09:25 AM

January 21, 2008

Monday evening (oops, and saturday)

What happened on Saturday: the Russian lady (I asked her her name again, and I forgot it again) came in to watch a vhs in the viewing room. Beyza came in and we talked about movies.

What happened tonight: Misuzu & Co. were here tutoring a couple of students. Lucia was in and out. Natalia called: if anyone saw a small brown book titled "West to East" or something like that, please let her know. I had to leave at 8:30 and Jacob was supposed to cover for me, but it didn't happen so I just closed early.

Posted by at 11:46 PM

Quiet MLK afternoon

This evening the shift was quiet. Anyway... Alek, are you recording the program for Chris Lou on friday? because otherwise I could do it... and I was also thinking of ways we could promote the use of the T.V. which is such a great resource don't you think... if you need some extra drama in your life... don't miss the mexican soap operas!

Posted by lnorrisc at 06:44 PM

the sun ascends

behind a tint of clouds
and still obscures your comely
golden brown eyes

Posted by byavuz at 04:55 PM

sascha's shift

quiet shift today. I engineered the new signs with strings. I put up the vis a vis pen for use on the signs. I emailed Heiki about filming the German movie. I helped Lizzie Brown with tell me more french. I also told the maintance guy about the new gold sign outside the LLC that will be screwed into the wall. If he stops by, just tell him to screw it in, and he pretty much knows what to do because I talked to him. Have a happy MLK day!

Posted by aschilba at 04:03 PM

Monday

Worked on cleaning and preparing signs so everyone will know what the hack in going on the LLC at all times. Also talked with Heiki, Jacob and Natalia about new Abroad Blog ideas.

Posted by at 12:48 PM

heiki had a shift

Helped a few people with Audacity. Meeting with Natalia, Jacob and Kindra re how to make students abroad blog (results: use returned bloggers for leverage, create new abroad-discussion blog for a different angle - Jacob's great idea). Kris Lou wants somebody to record a German TV show on Friday, which should be 2pm.

And Natalia asks to remind everybody to unlock Walton 21 in the mornings!

Posted by heesmaa at 11:54 AM

For Jacob--Webpage

I know that this is kind of small, but I think it would be a good idea to make the navigation bar on the WWN, LLC, and WU Abroad pages more systematic. I know that the WWN has a different set of links than the other two pages. It looks really great! You're awesome.

Posted by kherb at 11:38 AM

Monday 8-9

2nd week of school! Happy (?) Monday everyone.
One person came in to use audacity to record Chinese, had some trouble organizing tracks...she said she would be coming back in an hour or so.
Other than that, quiet shift.

Posted by anave at 08:58 AM

January 20, 2008

Sunday

The lab was dead quiet, which made the perfect atmosphere for a student to watch an episode of Planet Earth. Baobab trees are sweeeet.

Posted by at 10:15 PM

January 19, 2008

Saturday shift

Just had a student worked on his Spanish assignemt

Posted by hpham at 01:50 PM

January 18, 2008

Friday...finally the first week comes to an end...

Its been a quite afternoon with LLC staffs around. Worked on Roxio to have some hands on. Searched lamps for LLC.

Posted by nshevche at 04:36 PM

extreme website updating

if you are to update content on the llc website, you shall first mount the llc home drive and use the 'LLC Website' folder as your workspace in dreamweaver

this way you can avoid other people overwriting your changes and we will all be one big happy family

thank you thank you

Posted by at 01:06 PM

12-1

Quiet shift, happy friday everyone!

Posted by anave at 01:04 PM

Friday!

Managed to un-stick the key, which was a relief as we were again able to access our life-sustaining coffee stash. I also called maintenance back to tell them we no longer need their services. Heiki, Natalia and I met with a student who wants to use Rosetta Stone to learn Russian. Some Spanish professors also met with Natalia to discuss a Spanish test.

Posted by at 11:13 AM

Friday 8-9

The key is stuck!! I can't seem to get it out of the box, so I filed a maintenance request, I said it wasn't urgent so I'm not sure when they will arrive. Until then, we can't get the key...

on a more positive note...it's Friday!

Posted by anave at 08:53 AM

January 17, 2008

Thursday 2:30-5

Elizabeth was in, I helped her set up a Skype and Mixxer account and send messages to some Mixxer people. Helped Genna (?) with Audacity to record a french language file. Too much background noise so she used the PIT room. Lucia is applying for an internship at the capitol, so I took a look at her cover letter. Helped a transfer Russian student look for some simple grammar info to print out but he will go buy a laminated thing at the bookstore instead. Natalia and I took down the ugly paper on the bulletin boards in the stairway to W21 and rearranged some posters, then put up our new foam sign above the door. Natalia the destructor took down the brass LLC sign that was on the first floor so we'll have to put it up somewhere else. What a busy shift!

Posted by at 04:57 PM

cracked sidewalks

and encroaching gray over crunchy frosted grass

i helped misuzu with a faulty software program
foam tape was bought for new llc signs
are located on the bulky table w/ receipt
the KROBY table lamp suits my fancy

Posted by byavuz at 03:00 PM

Sascha's 12-2 shift

Quiet on the Western front... Lucia great job with the angled signs. I like it alot.

Posted by aschilba at 01:51 PM

Thursday 8:00-11:30

Helped the new Japanese teacher, and introduced delicious to her class.

Met Gabbi (sp?) a prospective german teacher, and also helped people with blackboard.

Other than that, a quiet shift.

Posted by anave at 11:19 AM

January 16, 2008

wed evening

Lucia is in finishing some stuff up. Wailana is working on something Middle Eastern. Pretty quiet.

Tomorrow when the WITS main office is open, could someone please go get some printer paper? Thanks!

Posted by at 07:42 PM

Lucia's shift Wednesday

I put the cards for the channels up in a perfect angle and aligned. I believed it is good to be practical and to diminish the possibilities of people not watching T.V. by creating a problem in their neck position... hope you know what I mean, hope you like it! There is an extra T.V. channels card in the black cabinet on the left on the second "floor" of it.

Posted by lnorrisc at 05:17 PM

Sascha's first and second shift

Getting back into the swing of things here... Wonderful to see everybody again. Forgot to write a blog entry on Monday after my 1-4pm shift so I will recap what happened. Talked with Natalia and Jacob about the new website. Took off the stubborn taped on signs on each of the computer desks with my pocket knife.

Today's shift was quiet as well. Helped John Chavez with the Russian Rosetta stone. Wrote a event blog entry on the Battleship Potemkin tonight at 7pm in the Elsinore Theater. Talked with Natalia and Kelsey about the faculty email that will go out to them. Enjoy Wednesday... we are almost to the weekend.

Posted by aschilba at 03:43 PM

montue

monday:no souls
tuesday: a few souls - one asked about atajo, another on natalia's whereabouts

Posted by byavuz at 03:25 PM

wed 3-5 shift

We came up with some issues with the website, the header on the page (the big picture on the top of each page) is not systematic, the llc home header and the willamette world news header leads back to their respective sites, while the willamette abroad leads back to the llc home. It may be best to organize these so they lead back to what it stands for. (the willamette abroad leads to willamette abroad)

found a nice yellow pen (black ink) near the L computer, put it under the giant head.

also made a guide document for tell me more Japanese.

E computer seems to have a problem with the sound card, the Tell Me More dialogue/pronunciation does not work.

Posted by anave at 03:05 PM

My first shift this semester

Sorry for not updating this yesterday! Raution and I were working together on Roxy Media Creator for our next big project. We managed to get the software installed on one of the computer; but it seems like it's only working when you log in as an administrator. We will have some updates on this soon. The shift was pretty quiet! There was only one girl coming to work on her Spanish homework.

Posted by hpham at 02:27 PM

Wed.

Talked with Heiki and Jacob about organizing the LLC website. Also, a student (Renee) came in, told us she liked the LLC's chatty atmosphere and offered to send us updates on muysical/cultural events that are going on in Salem (see recent e-mail) which we hope to incorporate into our blogs.

Posted by at 02:13 PM

Kelsey's Shift

Hey, sorry about not updating this. On monday during my shift, I worked on some schedule touch-ups....and did the same thing today. I also helped Genna with Audacity. There were a few people in the lab during the shift, mostly LLC staff, actually. 8-)

Posted by kherb at 01:49 PM

Wed 8-9

The new site looks great! Good work Jacob!
I set up a delicious account for the japanese 3 class, nothing else happened this morning.

Posted by anave at 09:01 AM

January 15, 2008

second shift..of the day

-added a couple of events to the website events blog from the willamette events calendar. i was thinking that putting them up there on a month by month basis makes the most sense..
-started updating the current courses...once i figured out how to use dreamweaver and connect up to the new site, it worked (updated french, german and russian, I'll leave the printed out schedules near the main computer), but later when I checked again, it was back to the old courses...not sure why it wasn't updating correctly. Someone enlighten me...
-oh and i made coffee if anyone wants some

Posted by afrackel at 01:54 PM

Tuesday

Spent some time looking at desk lamps for the LLC to mediate a light use compromise in the lab. Here are some links if you would like to add your input.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20089435
http://www.energyfederation.org/consumer/default.php/cPath/2050_25_175_245_1627
http://www.energyfederation.org/consumer/default.php/cPath/2050_25_175_249_483

Natalia was in the lab interviewing Natalie, a candidate for the German professor opening. I helped Elizabeth with her Blackboard account.

Posted by at 11:18 AM

morning morning

-natalia informed me that on tuesdays there aren't any classes in WLT 21 until 9:30, so i went in there and finished up watering the plants
-went upstairs to ask permission to post our poster on the bulletin board, its up there now : )

Posted by afrackel at 08:43 AM

January 14, 2008

Welcome back, all!

Hey kids. Hope your vacation was joy-filled and restful, complete with good food. Mine sure was.

Quiet evening here in the LLC, Misuzu was here tutoring and we updated her times on the lab schedule. BTW a million congratulations on the new LLC site, looks bloody fantastic. I am totally impressed.

There are some lovely new laminated signs with the updated LLC hours that have been posted in various places around the lab and W21. Assignment for someone tomorrow: could you go up to the dean's office and ask permission to place the one remaining sign (on the table) (and more signs, once and if we print them) on the public bulletin boards upstairs? Most flyers can only go up for a limited time so we will have to get special permission to post them there indefinitely. We may have to beg for this privilege, I'm not sure.

Posted by at 07:07 PM

First Shift!

Hey everyone, hope you all had a great break!
The shift was pretty quiet, just had to let people into walton 21 for a class.

Posted by anave at 08:53 AM