Attention Skype users…
02 October 2007 | 4:23 pm | Barbara Sawhill | 
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Ours is the only lab on campus with Skype and headsets and cameras, it’s true.
We have set this up to allow our language classes to converse with native speakers and have language exchanges (15 minutes of Russian for 15 minutes of English, let’s say). We also welcome users to try out Skype for personal calls too. We are all about exploration…okay, well, sort of.
We have discovered that there is a difference between personal calls and, er, um, personal calls.
Yes, we are the “noisy” lab and yes we have birds that chirp and sing and staff that sings and yells and laughs and snorts (you know who you are)…but all of that background chatter does not, alas, drown out the more intimate details of personal video calls on Skype (especially if they are in English).
Please use our lab! Please come and use our tools! But you might want to rethink having your more private conversations in our center where voices carrrrrry……..
Thanks!
Announcements and ewwwww!
rkelly on 02 Oct 2007 at 6:35 pm #
hahaha. yes! the only thing missing is a transcript of the conversation…
erin on 03 Oct 2007 at 9:44 am #
something tells me i would -not- want a transcript.