The Paul & Edith Cooper International Learning Center is a state of the art learning center specializing in foreign language education. The CILC is located on the third floor of Peters Hall at Oberlin College. Our lab computers support input and output in Arabic, Russian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, and Italian. We are happy to explore using other languages on our machines — please stop by if you have a special request!
- 24 iMac desktops (20-inch):
- Mac OS 10.5.4 (Leopard)
- Microsoft Office 2004
- Firefox 2.0.0.14; Safari
- iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, and iChat
- Second Life, access to a virtual world providing an advanced level of a social network service
- World of Warcraft, a massively popular online role-playing game
- Adium, a Mac-based instant messaging program
- Audacity, an open-source audio editing program
- Skype , a voice-over-IP and text messaging application
- Foreign language education software packages, produced both commercially and by faculty members
- Some software is available only on select PCs (inquire at the desk):
- Handwriting recognition features for: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, and German (tablets only)
- HotRecorder, for recording Skype calls (select Profile desktops)
- PowerWord 5.1, a Chinese character reference dictionary (select Profile desktops)
We also have two workstations, located in Peters 330, that are available for faculty and staff to reserve and use for projects (usually digital media) that their current computers are not capable of handling. These workstations include:
- A PowerMac G5:
- MacOS 10.4.7 (Tiger)
- iMovie HD
- iTunes 6.0.5
- iDVD
- DVD Studio Pro
- Roxio Toast Titanium 6.0
- Photoshop 7
- Dreamweaver MX
- Adobe Acrobat Pro
- And a Gateway E4100:
- Windows XP Pro, Service Pack 2
- Windows Movie Maker
- Photoshop 7.0
- Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Abbyy FineReader (OCR scanning software)
- more to come soon