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Re: Language lab (was [school-discuss] Free-Open Baccalaureate Idea)



On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:11:48AM +0100, Chris Puttick wrote:
> This idea has huge merit for collaborative development on an international
> list  - the software solution would be universal, and there's a fair few
> different language "experts" available to provide the necessary recordings
> (from a UK perspective we need French, German and Spanish to make it

Russian, Italian and Greek might also be useful.

> acceptable - Indic and Arabic languages would be the icing on the cake that
> would make it a killer app). The proprietary software solutions being sold
> to UK schools cost upwards of GBP10k to cover one classroom. That sort of
> money buys a lot of development in the right circles!

There is a brief mention of St Monicas High Language School
on the schoolforge site but nothing much in the way of
details.

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Mark Evans
St. Peter's CofE High School
Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109
Fax: +44 1392 204763