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August 28, 2009
Fri Aug 28th 2009
Who came in today:
Pascal - registered him into MyFrenchLab and he got his first introduction blog done !!!
Mikhal from Switzerland to ask about LLC's possible help in finding some internship related things. A Student form Germany and Ukraine came in to use Skype, and Martina Eriksson from Sweden came in to volunteer and inquire about the World News blog, and then Skype. I Made an action item list towards the end of the day, together with Megan led the Signing in to MyLanguage Labs of Hayley and scacha and Vlad, and compiled a mini-guide for LLC workers to guide class orientations through registration on MyLanguage Lab. With Sascha, looked at whose shifts the first 2 weeks' MyLangLab registration falls onto.
Posted by mtarants at 01:57 PM
August 27, 2009
Thursday Aug 27th
TA training. I spoke of Russian language blog and Podcast feature on WISE. Worked with Pascual and Alejandra on creating a tutoring meeting and commenting about it in Tutor Attendance. As the French language liaison, I showed Pascual the French resources off the list I created a few days ago. Showed the overview of MyFrenchLab/SpanishLab to him and Alejandra.
Posted by mtarants at 03:46 PM
Wed 26th of August
We prepared the lab as well as ourselves for the TA training. Hayley came by, I got her email address and shared the TA training schedule with her on googleDocs. Megan and I made sure the TAs were added to myLanguageSpaces with their WU usernames and same with blogs (all blog "tasks" on the training doc). I finished the Podcast presentation preparation.
Posted by mtarants at 03:42 PM
August 25, 2009
8.25
Went over new LLC stuff with Vlad, finished editing the Tutoring Attendance tab in the Language Spaces on WISE, helped Martha Gavilanez with MySpanishLab, discussed and prepared for the TA training session, updated the list of participants in the WISE audio sites, and suggested that Ron Loftus should talk to Cheryl about creating a new audio site for the updated version of Nakama.
Posted by msunada at 05:20 PM
Tuesday 25th Aug
Entered about 70 students sent to me by Stacy West to the TellUs blog; started printing out files for the TA's training. Made sure Sascha (So cool that he is back!!!) knows about myRussianSpace, about GoogleDocs, and arranged that he be presenting and compiling info about VoiceThread for the TA training. Emailed Chris Linn the question abou LLC TA event lunch reservations - whether we are going to be served/seated inside or else.
Together with Megan, started printing out the files for the TA folders (faculty are going to get an identical packet jsut so everyone is on the same page).
Posted by mtarants at 05:18 PM
August 24, 2009
8.24
Made dodecahedrons, introduced international students to the LLC, helped Martha Gavilanez with MyLanguageLabs, helped Hekun Wu with his website, planned some more for the TA training, and added a couple of students to the Abroad blog.
Posted by msunada at 05:19 PM
Monday 24th
Oh what a beautiful eventful morning it was.
I helped Megan cut up and form/glue/tape LLC magic dodecahedrons,
made sure that
a) All TA's Resources had WordChamp directions/link in them
b) MySpanishSpace Resources has files for 1) troubleshoting for MySpanLab and 2) Getting Started on MySpanishSpace
c) MyFrenchSpace Resources has files for 1) troubleshooting for MyFrenchLab and 2) getting started on myFrenchSpace
uploaded to GoogleDocs and shared:
list of Fall 2009 Int-l Undergrad Students,
troubleshooting guide for myLanguageLabs from Cory Blackman,
Continued Working on the presentation for TAs.
together with Megan, gave informal LLC intro to Scavenger-Hunting Int-l Undrergrad Students. Wild Bunch.
Posted by mtarants at 12:34 PM
August 10, 2009
Monday Aug 10th
Helped Megan and Natalia move the wooden media shelf, learned and signed up for myLanguageLab.com, Reorganized the meal bins with headphones/cables/external Hard Drives. Happy Monday!
Posted by mtarants at 05:06 PM