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

["Mark Evans" <mpe@st-peters-high.devon.sch.uk>]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:51:07PM +0100, ian wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:29, mpe@st-peters-high.devon.sch.uk wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> That's because we haven't really started yet. They start as a specialist
> school this September and we are currently planning the infrastructure.
> They will be running hybrid machines because their current course is
> supported by software dependent on Windows but the development work on
> things like digital recording and playback, teacher viewing and
> communicating with pupils over the network will involve GNU/Linux thin
> and intermediate clients. We can also look at cloning/ adapting Windows
> software that is particularly useful as we will have the means to try it
> out directly. They have to finish their buildings this summer and
> install the servers and networking before we can start. I'll post more
> in September when we know more.

We have just got language collage status, do you do
quotes or have any kind of publicity material to hand.

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