The Fallbrook Lab is up and running. With the recent addition of a data projector, we are looking good! Currently, the lab is used before class as a lounge (refrigerator and coffee pot) for all instructors at the Fallbrook site.
We have sixteen Dell computers with flat screens, which are more than enough to allow each instructor a chance to use the Internet. Once classes begin at 6:30 pm, the lounge becomes a computer lab for the VESL students who are working on their keyboarding skills. At break time, it becomes a lounge again.
We plan on conducting ESL Compass testing in the lab. One set-back to this plan, though, is the slowness of the Internet connection. The Internet version of Compass demands a lot of bandwidth. Unfortunately, we do not yet have an optic fiber line that would allow a quick response time in testing with 16 computers simultaneously. But we will do our best until the optic fiber arrives – hopefully by the end of the year.
The lab and I are still learning about each other, so I envision more creative uses of the space in the near future.
We have sixteen Dell computers with flat screens, which are more than enough to allow each instructor a chance to use the Internet. Once classes begin at 6:30 pm, the lounge becomes a computer lab for the VESL students who are working on their keyboarding skills. At break time, it becomes a lounge again.
We plan on conducting ESL Compass testing in the lab. One set-back to this plan, though, is the slowness of the Internet connection. The Internet version of Compass demands a lot of bandwidth. Unfortunately, we do not yet have an optic fiber line that would allow a quick response time in testing with 16 computers simultaneously. But we will do our best until the optic fiber arrives – hopefully by the end of the year.
The lab and I are still learning about each other, so I envision more creative uses of the space in the near future.
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Thanks for sharing the great news about the computer lab in Fallbrook. Ooompha!
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