[K12OSN] Language lab software

[Daniel Bodanske]

I had a small private language school 5 years ago and we put a lab
together with LTSP (K12LTSP was still a little immature then, if I
remember) and the localized Linux flavor. We had to create the
material ourselves, though, and it was completely web based.

I also ran a language lab for a university and we used English
Discovery (IIRC), which I got off the flaky Windows 2000 server and
onto Red Hat, including the dongle and license software (that feat
garnered me a job offer from the software company, by the way). The
client stuff was simple enough that it would work in Wine now, so I
suspect you COULD get everything working if you really needed to, but
it'll be a PITA no matter what.

If you're looking for significantly more than listening and
pronunciation practice, the software is heavily geared towards
Windows, so you'll probably end up there. If you need video,
listening, and pronunciation practice, you can achieve that fairly
easily with thin clients. Take a look at Praat
(http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/)for phonetic and pronunciation work.

Dan

On 5/4/07, Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org> wrote:
> Honestly if you can't get Windows versions of lang-lab software running
> via Wine or a Web-based version...
>
> You'll be doing what I've had to and creating a PC lab with
> non-opensource software and pay'n the fees, to have an effective lab.
>
> --Huck
>
> Then again you can just change the default language of the thin clients
> to say 'German' and sit back and say 'ENJOY learning german if you want
> to use the computers!'
>
> John Hansknecht wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > What are people doing with LTSP based labs and foreign language instruction.
> > We are currently running ltsp in all of our labs and we have a request to set
> > up a language lab. The short list of questions:
> >
> > 1) Will LTSP support an audio lab? a video based lab? or do I need to switch
> > to heavy client PC's.
> > 2) Does anyone know of any available open source software for high school age
> > instruction?
> > 3) If you don't have answers on 1 or 2, what does your school do for a
> > language lab?
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John Hansknecht
> >
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