Please don’t eat or drink in the lab, folks. Our staff spends an awful lot of time making sure the place works for y’all and keeping it clean and inviting. All it takes is one cup of spilled coffee or forgotten bowl of yogurt to seriously wreck a computer, or make the place stink.
So, when you come into the lab, please leave your drinks and/or food up at the front desk, or on one of the tables along the wall. Thanks!
p.s. if you left a bowl next to one of the macs this afternoon, you can come claim it from me (Erin) in Peters 330. Or not - it’s a very nice bowl and I’d be happy to keep it.
An article by our own Barbara Sawhill, “Using Skype for Teaching and Learning,” will be published in the upcoming second edition of the book Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web.
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……..
