Regardless of when you take the test, the results will be available the morning of August 27th via the department secretaries and in time for advisor/advisee meetings.

To get started, read the information provided here under Placement/Readiness tests.

Any questions? Please email us at languages AT oberlin.edu

Ne’ertheless this is a summer of endings and beginnings here on the 3rd floor of Peters Hall.

First, the beginnings:

• Language placement tests in French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish will be available online as of July 14 (and not sooner…sorry). Check here for further details

• we are in the process of installing 24 brandy spandy new intel imacs that (fingers crossed) will be running OSX and XP. Stay tuned for further developments.

• on the Windows side we will be running World of Warcraft (UK version) This will allow access to servers in Europe and a completely new spin on language immersion and technology. We owe this idea to our good friend Todd Bryant at Dickinson College who has been using WoW in his introductory German classes for many semesters now. (Check out his article on this here)

• we will be exploring the use of Second Life for language immersion as well. To that end, if you are a student here and have experience in SL and speak a second language, leave a message below or email us: languages@oberlin.edu. We have a small grant that can pay for student assistance as we explore this possibility.

• More new toys for check out at the desk: we will have flip video cameras for student and faculty use (to be checked out at the desk). The flips store up to one hour of video, and then through a USB connector can easily download the footage to the computer of your choice… Digital (still image cameras) will also be available for check out. We still have a couple of mini DV video cameras and tripods and lavalier wireless mikes too.

•Toys for faculty: the lab now has a few video iPods and one iPod Touch to loan out on a limited basis, as well as the handy cable that allows one to connect the ipod to a TV monitor. Perhaps more exciting still is that the CILC has acquired a Verizon wireless USB card for faculty and staff who travel to conferences with a laptop and need wireless internet access. This card can be reserved via Barbara.

And now the endings:

This summer we say goodbye to a good friend and colleague, Ryan, who left the CILC and the position of Educational Technology Specialist for a similarly-titled job at UC-San Francisco’s Center for Instructional Technology. Ryan will be responsible for training the UCSF faculty in the finer points of Moodle .

The birdies, fishies and all of us here in the CILC already miss him. Among other things, it’s too dang quiet here without him and that…that…music.

When a job posting for the ETS position is finalized, you can check the Oberlin College Human Resources website for details. These’ll be big shoes to fill, indeed, but we will welcome applications from dedicated, somewhat wacky (it helps, trust me) educators interested in exploring how technology can enhance language instruction.

==Reading Period==
Sunday, May 11: noon - midnight
Monday, May 12: noon - midnight
Tuesday, May 13: noon - midnight

==Finals==
Wednesday, May 14: 9am - 5pm
Thursday, May 15: 9am - 5pm
Friday, May 16th: 9am - 5pm
We will close for the semester at 5pm on Friday, May 16th.

Much love,

The Language Lab

Exams are collected at 4pm each weekday and graded by the language faculty. Results will be available from the Language Department offices beginning the afternoon after you take your exam:

For Spanish or French, please see Blanche in Peters 301
For Russian or German, please see Claudia in Peters 222

We are happy to announce the addition of a new duel-boot iMac to the lab!  Wither you prefer Windows or OS X, we encourage you to come to the lab and test out and break in the new machine

Also, the CILC will resume normal operating hours this week, which are:

Monday through Thursday, 9am - 11pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 6pm - 11pm

Stay warm, folks!

Exams are collected at 4pm each weekday and graded by the language faculty. Results will be available from the Language Department offices beginning the afternoon after you take your exam:

For Spanish or French, please see Blanche in Peters 301
For Russian or German, please see Claudia in Peters 222

Our hours for this week are as follows:

Monday: 9-5

Tuesday: 9-7

Wednesday: 9-7

Thursday: 9-7

Friday: 9-5

Hope to see you there!

The CILC will open to the public beginning Monday, 7 January 2008. We’ll be open throughout Winter Term from 1pm - 5pm every weekday. Come help keep the finches and fishies company! See you soon…

Barbara and Ryan and the menagerie