November 21, 2009
saturday - Megan
There was a meeting in WLT 21 and one student came in to use the Arabic Rosetta Stone.
Vlad and Olga were also here.
Posted by msunada at 01:30 PM
November 20, 2009
jessa 11-12:30
talked to natalia about WWN service request, compiled document to revise at WWN meeting today. Updated dinner rsvp. started by beyza and uploaded it to google docs.
Posted by jgfowler at 12:29 PM
9-1015 >/>Beyza<\<
quiet times...sent out doughnut invite
Posted by anave at 10:02 AM
Marta Friday 8-9 am
Quiet shift. A Japanese student a.k.a. "stapler buddy" came in for the stapler.
Posted by byavuz at 09:05 AM
Natalia OIE meeting 8:30 - 10 am
Have a good Russian class and Happy pre-Thanksgiving Friday!
I am bringing the doughnuts around 10:30 am -- please send out a doughnut invite to the rest of the LLC staff!
Posted by nshevche at 08:15 AM
November 19, 2009
Vladimir's shift
Recorded Speech Practice exercises for Russian class.
Posted by vsubboti at 08:48 PM
1130-1330, 1600-1730 +:||Beyza||:+
Covered for Andy from 1130-1230, a quiet shift yay
1230-1330: one student in working independently
1600-1730: lots of tutoring: french, spanish, russian
Vlad will cover part of my shift from 1730-1830 yay!!
si una vez dije que te amaba, y por ti la vida daba
si una vez dije que te amaba, no lo vuelvo a hacer
ese error, es cosa de ayer
Posted by byavuz at 06:26 PM
Vlad and Sascha's Thursday shift
Today Vlad and I supervised the Spanish dubbing project. One group actually finished, and Vlad rendered and burned the disk for them. It is on the top of the blank disks in the cabinet shelf. One group is working in the MMWR and they are doing good too. ANother group is working in the corner and they also are doing good. BUT One group hasn't started dubbing yet... but they've been practicing alot.
Marta is here now and Sydney is wokring on something for BIO class. One student is on facebook in the corner and Eri is working.
Posted by byavuz at 11:30 AM
Jessa 8-9:30
Hebrew tutoring with Kendra, Sascha and Vlad came in at end of shift.
Posted by jgfowler at 11:25 AM
November 18, 2009
Andy's 6-8
Russian movie/potluck in WLT21, and a spanish movie in B18.
There were a few people in and out, and Carolina is now tutoring here.
Checked and corrected a few grammatical errors in the WWN.
Posted by anave at 08:07 PM
Olga's 4-6
Talked with Natalia about the Spanish dubbing project and the issues with using iMocie on macs. The version of iMovie that we have on the macs in LLC turned out to be a different program, not the one installed on the other computers. So, the software called iMovie on our macs is a different software, and I couldn't figure out how to work with it. What people will need if they want to work on a mac is calles "iMovie HD", and this is the software used by one of the groups for dubbing for the Spanish class.
Natalia showed me this tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV-JXgN8UOM
and it works well for iMovie HD. So if people have any issues, just give them the link.
LLC is full of people. Pablo and Alejandra are here, Pascal is tutoring, one person was using rosetta and several people are using PCs.
Posted by jgfowler at 05:30 PM
Jessa wednesday 2-4
aleja and pablo here tutoring, pascal online. sent out e-mail to WWN team about announcing our issue, helped natalia send WWN announcement. also, read jan's paragraph for beth
MARTA's ID card by the printer.
-Jessa
Posted by jgfowler at 03:51 PM
Hayley 11-2
Uploaded group 2's files from SPAN 365 on to the MMR computer and transferred the files into Imovie, put them on the LLC hard drive and uploaded them on to the LLC workstation computer as tv files. The video tutorial for Imovie that we posted on Googledocs is from an older version of Imovie that is no longer recognizable. I couldn't find another video on youtube, but under the HELP option on Imovie there is a link to video tutorials. http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie ... My shift is over, but I will explore this more later.
Student came in from Ferrins spanish class to learn how to sign up for Spanish tutoring.
Posted by hweed at 01:44 PM
Andy's 10:10-11:30
Audrey came in asking for a PAL VCR cassette tape, but we could not find one labeled as such. (America is apparently the only country to require you to label PAL cassettes, and we have mostly foreign films, so we could not tell) They will try another method.
A few people in the lab using the computers, two skype conversations going on!
Posted by anave at 11:21 AM
9-1015 :/:b|eyz|a\:\
sent out dinner email
one guy using skype
and i miss you most of all
Posted by byavuz at 10:06 AM
November 17, 2009
Jessa 7-9
looked for events to add to blog
pascal here before showing french movie
one student also came in to work on online spanish hw
Posted by byavuz at 08:54 PM
Andy's 6-7
Quiet shift, Sascha came to drop the key off, no other visitors.
Posted by byavuz at 07:00 PM
Megan_Tuesday
A lot of students came in for tutoring today.
I spent some time trying to find the LLC key, but it turns out Sascha had it.
I went through the Spanish links to fix and wrote notes/questions about them in the document on Google Docs. I started on the Chinese links, but haven't gone through them all yet.
Posted by msunada at 06:00 PM
Natalia out 2pm
Posted by nshevche at 12:51 PM
Andy 11:30-12:30
Japanese tutoring was going on for a little while, and I checked with Eri to see if she needed any help with the blog.
Edited the WISE sign up for Spanish dubbing and made sure we would get notified if anyone signed up.
Posted by anave at 12:25 PM
Sascha's Tuesday
Today I opened the lab. I washed all of the LLC table tops and work spaces. There was an intermediate Japanese class here working for the majority of the shift. I talked with Natalia and Prof. Delgado about podcast teaching resources and ideas. She is bringing exciting new things to the classroom!
The printer ink has been refilled too. Eri is here working. Andy is here now for his shift. Japanese students are diligently working as well. Marta was in and out.
Have a happy Tuesday!
Posted by aschilba at 11:28 AM
November 16, 2009
Sascha's Monday 2:30-4pm shift
Today I assisted ERI with her wordchamp troubles. She could not get the entry to show up on the TIUA site, but after a while of fixing and such, we finally got it to show up. What we did was change the date of publishing to only a couple of minutes ago, which tricked the software into publishing the blog brand new again...Tricky??
Tutoring here with Pascal, Alejandra and Pablo. One student is working in the corner. Be borrowed headphones. I could not get any new developments on the AVI to Mac issue and when I went to ask the MMWR tech, he was not there...
Please update your blogs, and remember to submit your timesheets for approval!
Posted by aschilba at 04:24 PM
Hayley 10:15-1:30
Added imovie dubbing link to GoogleDoc.
Minami came in to create a project for WISE. Emailed Cheryl.
Martina in here talking on Skype.
Tried converting 7vidas file on HandBreak and it didn't work.
Posted by byavuz at 01:30 PM
9-1015 ]Beyza[
added Mijo Fujiwara to schedule: tomorrow @ 9:10am she'll be in the llc w/ her class
one student in
Posted by byavuz at 10:12 AM
Monday 8-9 16th
Quiet Shift. Selene, Spanish-Chinese student came by to say hi, Sydney worked on computer.
Posted by anave at 09:02 AM
November 15, 2009
Andy's 6:30-11
A Spanish dubbing group was here. Since no one else was here, they used the mounted microphone instead of the headsets. They knew what they were doing and didn't need any help.
I reloaded the printer paper, and the printer seems to be low on ink.
Posted by anave at 10:32 PM
November 13, 2009
Sascha's 1230-2pm shiftq
Today I helped a girl with her myspanishlab work. She was having trouble accessing her account, but we solved it by exiting the browser and trying again.
Jessa was here when I arrived. Now Vlad, Olga and Natalia are here. Natalia brought some much appreciated candy... my favorite... lindt truffles.
Posted by aschilba at 02:10 PM
jessa 11-12:30
Alejandra here tutoring, Max surfing the web.
I helped Natalia edit the document for the new LLC
Posted by byavuz at 12:27 PM
November 12, 2009
Vladimir 6:30-9 pm
Recorded speech practice exercises for Russian class.
Spanish dubbing Group 4 was here working on their project.
Posted by vsubboti at 09:18 PM
Vladimir's shift
Alejandra was here tutoring. Marta was also here, working with PC. Natalia stopped by and said that she would be in the library.
Posted by vsubboti at 03:45 PM
Andy's 11:30-12:30
Tried to convert the movies for the Spanish dubbing from .avi to .mp4, but handbrake kept quitting. The reason is so that a group could work on the macs, if anyone knows how to make it work that would be great.
Also looked over the form for the new llc, and made some suggestions for that.
Posted by anave at 12:43 PM
Thursday 930-1130
Today Vlad and I worked together with the Spanish dubbing class. There was excellent progress today and for those of you helping with the project, please red the google doc notes. They were instructed to sign up in wise for video tutoring times.
NOTE TO EVERYONE:
1. If the SPAN dubbing groups come in on your shift, they should know what to do with everything. At the end of the session, they save it to the LLC external hard drive.
2. Do not put any "grupo #1234" folder into the trash bins... this is so that we don't accidentally delete their projects.
Eri is here and so is Andy. Spanish dubbing was the biggest event of today. See you tomorrow!
Posted by aschilba at 11:35 AM
jessa thursday 8-9:30
met with Kendra about meeting for tutoring
talked with Sascha and Natalia about the alarm being turned off (think it is the janitors)
also, sascha showed us pictures from his trip. natalia told us about a project using voicethread to add commentary to pictures of our travels
Posted by jgfowler at 09:30 AM
November 11, 2009
Megan__Wed.
A dubbing group came in tonight to work on their project. They said they saved their project to the hard drive of one of the computers and couldn't find it at first. I told them to check the Recycle Bin, and luckily they found it. However, they said they were required to save it to the hard drive. I'm confused. I thought the hard drives here were wiped every once in a while? Also, I think one of them borrowed one of the new headphones.
A couple students came in for tutoring as well.
Posted by msunada at 09:00 PM
Andy's 6-8
Quiet shift, a lot of tutoring was going on but everyone left as my shift started....there is a movie playing in the next room!
Posted by anave at 07:58 PM
Jessa 2-6
Lots of activity in here (tutoring galore!)
Looked over the document to be submitted to the architects for the new LLC
Worked on WWN, added new pictures to intro issue, tried to get pictures to link back to introduction, but it kept linking the text as well
sent out e-mail for party rsvps
Posted by jgfowler at 05:54 PM
Hayley 11-2
Natalia and I went over the draft that will be submitted for the new 'academic space' for the LLC.
Student from Vara's class came in to learn how to sign up for tutoring on WISE.
Posted by msunada at 01:53 PM
Wednesday 8-9 am and 10:15 - 11:15 am
Morning shift went uneventfully and quietly. From 10:15 to 11:15 I worked on restructuring the audio of Chapter 6 of French Audio Collage. Added a new event to the events blog regarding the francophone documentary tonight and put an announcement about it on My French Space.
Posted by mtarants at 11:20 AM
November 10, 2009
Megan - Wednesday
Several students came in for tutoring.
-updated Events blog
-helped Amadou burn a Word document to a disk. For some reason it would only work on a Mac.
-spoke with Natalia about changes to the TellUs blog
-added a link to the TellUs blog on the navigation bar in the Abroad blog
-changed the number of entries displayed on the home page of the WWN blog to 14. It isn't too hard to do. If someone from the World News blog wants to learn, just come and ask me.
Die without me, never thank me.
Walk right through me, never feel me.
Always watching, never speaking.
Always lurking, never seen.
--> air
Posted by msunada at 06:00 PM
Andy's Shift
Took screenshots of PCTV, Tell Me More, and Skype. These are in my folder in the LLC drive, and will go up on the TIUA blog. I had a problem getting an image to show up on the PCTV screen as I was taking a screenshot, so if anyone knows how to do that please let me know!
Posted by anave at 12:38 PM
Sascha's 8-11:30 shift
Today I opened the lab and straightened it up a bit. Andy is here now with Eri. Beyza was here working, as was Marta. Natalia and I talked about the excellent articles and pictures from the World News Blogs. Check out the Chinese article and pictures! We also discussed the new Russian WISE space configuration and the Spanish dubbing project's progress.
NOTES:
Please DO leave a blog entry. ESPECIALLY about technology that doesn't work properly.
Posted by aschilba at 11:31 AM
November 09, 2009
Sascha's 2:30-4pm shift
Mondays get busier and busier around here! There are three tutors (Pascal, Alejandra, and Pablo) working hard right now with students. Eri is just leaving. Spanish dubbing group #4 is also here working on the teaching station computer. Beyza just arrived too.
I looked through WISE tutoring sign up for the Span. Dubbing class--nobody is signed up for help, but they are encouraged to if they need it. One student asked how he should add Chinese third year audio on his WISE site... I showed him how.
Posted by aschilba at 04:01 PM
Monday 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Evan the Spanish student came to work on something. Other than that, quiet quiet quiet slow and relaxing shift.
Posted by byavuz at 02:49 PM
Hayley 10:15-1:30
Really quiet shift. Gustavo came by looking for Alejandra. Read World News Blog. Looked over Sascha's notes about dubbing and played around with software.
Happy Monday
Posted by byavuz at 01:33 PM
Monday 8-9 am Marta
One student came in to use the computers. Other than that, quiet shift. Watched the Swarthmore LRC keynote presentation.
Posted by byavuz at 08:58 AM
Natalia - out
I have a day off today /Vacation/Personal Day :)
I am in town and could be reached by phone if there is an urgent matter ... Have a great Monday!
Posted by nshevche at 07:12 AM
November 06, 2009
Sascha's 12:30-2pm
Today Natalia graciously and generously brought in donuts for us today. There is still a couple left here if anybody wants to claim them (maybe Vlad and Olya). Beyza was here working. A student came in to use a computer. My friend Casey came in and he complemented us on our nice computers and lab set up. I checked out the new world news--congrats to our wonderful contributors and editors! Way cool...
Have a nice weekend! Stay dry...
Posted by aschilba at 01:58 PM
Jessa 11-12:30
Published final version of WWN and helped Natalia send out announcement e-mail. Natalia presented WordChamp to Amadou's French class for use of translation of Beauty and the Beast.
Posted by byavuz at 12:31 PM
November 05, 2009
Vladimir's shift
Recorded with Olga exercises for Russian class for tomorrow. Posted an entry to the Events Blog that Natalia sent me.
Posted by anave at 09:15 PM
1600-1830 b\:e\:y\:z\:a
installed keyboard settings in spanish on computers
pascal tutoring frances
aleja y pablo espanol
a group of students working on span hw
Posted by byavuz at 06:23 PM
Vladimir's shift
Helped Natalia with keyboard settings for Spanish. Here is the way to do it:
1. Go to Control Panel
2. Choose Regional and Language Options
3. Go to Languages tab
4. Click 'Details' button
5. Find Spanish language
6. Highlight 'Keyboard' sign
7. Click 'Add; button
8. Choose 'Spanish Variations'
9. Click Apply
10. Great job, you are done
Posted by vsubboti at 03:30 PM
1230-1330 Beyzita
Quiet shift
Alejandra working
Posted by byavuz at 01:32 PM
Andy's 11:30-12:30
Helped with the tail end of the Spanish Dubbing. Found out that in moviemaker you can't use the headphones for input while using the speakers for output at the same time.
Also put up my schedule on the spanish wise site.
Unpublished a world news story that accidentally published.
Also discarded an old pudding package that was on the bookshelf.
Posted by anave at 12:20 PM
Sascha's Thursday 9:30-11:30
Today Vlad and I worked with the Spanish Dubbing class. Maria Blanco was not here, but the students had a successful workday. The most productive group recorded one minute!
A boy student came in asking if we had found his black gloves. I checked the blog and seared for black gloves, but there was nothing. Told him that, and he said he'd check back later. Please keep a lookout for black gloves, and if you find them put them on the blog.
Andy is here now working on our WMM microphone issue. Vlad and I have made notes about what went well and what did not regarding the Spanish dubbing group. They are on google docs in the folder called "Spanish Dubbing."
Eri is here. Andy is here. Natalia is helping Amadou work with wordchamp. They are uploading a "beauty and the beast" story in French... pretty cool...One student is here working on his spanish lab hw.
Posted by aschilba at 11:33 AM
jessa 8-9:30
no one was here. e-mailed Kendra about tutoring times. the alarm was NOT on!
Posted by anave at 09:31 AM
November 04, 2009
wed Megan
Extremely empty. No one came in.
Posted by msunada at 08:29 PM
Andy's Shift
Pretty quiet night, there was a study abroad meeting in B17. Someone apparently forgot something, but came back to retrieve it.
Posted by anave at 07:57 PM
Hayley 11-2
Watched same video. I especially like the idea of interviewing professors about new courses offered in Language department + interviewing students about their experiences studying abroad. Looked up how to change Spanish dictionary settings for Firefox email. A couple of students here working on stuff...
Half way through.
Posted by msunada at 01:48 PM
Andy's 10-11:20
Watched a Keynote presentation from another language lab, got some ideas for our own if we create one.
-Include excerpts from the Spanish dubbing project, and convince other language classes to do similar video projects so we can show them.
-Movie reviews and clips of foreign films that we have here and at the library.
-Interviews with international students and students who were abroad.
-Interviews with professors
-If there are any upcoming culture/language classes that are especially interesting, interview the professor about them.
-Videotape any cultural events that happen on campus, so that we have some stock to pull from.
Posted by anave at 10:42 AM
11-4-2009 Marta 8-9 am
Very quiet morning shift. no one came in.
Posted by mtarants at 09:05 AM
November 03, 2009
Jessa 7-9
very quiet shift. alejandra and carolina came in to go online. another girl (jenne) also came in to work on homework for 10 minutes.
Posted by anave at 08:56 PM
Andy's 6-7
Stacy West came in twice to use the phone. One person came in to ask how late we were open, but then left.
Posted by anave at 06:56 PM
tuesday _Megan_
There were a lot of people here today for tutoring as usual.
-The Events blog is finally up to date!
-Sascha has been added to the LLC contact page
-Caitlin's and Tessa's blogs have been added to the Abroad blog
Posted by msunada at 05:49 PM
1230-1500 b':e'y:z':a
spanish tutoring w/ carolina
french tutoring w/ pascal
alejandra grading thesis paper
pablo working solo
natalia dropped by
with flowers
put them in pseudo vase :)
Posted by byavuz at 02:32 PM
Sascha's Tuesday 8-11:30
Today I opened the lab and straightened the chairs. Loftus came in after his class to ask about the projector. It was not working when I tried to help him with it. It made weird noises and was completely unresponsive... fire hazard... he called WITS and a guy from the tech shop came down to check it out. So now I am chatting with the tech guy (nice guy). He is going to fix it up or take it out or see what the problem is. Andy is on shift now and Marta has been teaching me funny russian phrases. Max was here using skype as well. Nobody else came in.
Posted by aschilba at 11:30 AM
Monday 6:30 pm - 9pm
A quiet shift. With one exception. A theater student came in to record a monologue for her final presentation. She recorded an audio file, I helped her do it using Audacity, then to save it and export it in MP3 and then I sent it to her via my gmail. Overwhelming. :) In a good way.
Posted by mtarants at 09:55 AM
November 02, 2009
1600-1830 <:-beyza-:>
french tutoring w/ pascalito
spanish tutoring w/ pablito and alejandrita
aleja using skype
Posted by byavuz at 06:31 PM
Marta Monday1:145 - 2:30
A group came in to work on the Spanish video project. Helped a student of 2nd year Chinese join the audio website.
Posted by mtarants at 04:45 PM
Sascha's 2:30-4pm shift
Beyza arrived. Pascal has been tutoring for an hour. Pablo has also been tutoring and Alejandra was too. There is one student working on a computer now. I helped group #4 with their Spanish Dubbing Project.
NOTE: If Spanish dubbing groups come into the LLC, please be sure to ask what number they are... If they are numbers 2 or 4, then please let them work on the teaching station computer or the two computers to the teaching station computer's LEFT.
Ok. I'll see you all tomorrow. Marta will be coveriing from 6:30-9pm tonight for Olya and Vlad.
Posted by aschilba at 04:13 PM
Hayley 1015-130
Super quiet shift.
Two students came in to use computers.
OLGA AND VLAD - Professor Conliffe stopped by to give you a packet with the course work for the next three classes. I put it on the second shelf on the bookcase next to the colored paper.
Happy monday
Posted by byavuz at 01:27 PM
9-1015 (B)eyz(a)
One student in working on Spanish hw
One guy came in and asked about available Chinese resources
Posted by byavuz at 10:06 AM
Monday 8-9 am Marta
The usual morning shift. very quiet, with no one in sight.
Posted by mtarants at 08:54 AM