Why a Sony Digital Language Lab? West Springfield HS in Virginia explains how their Digital Language Lab benefits their students. Click here to see the video. Meghan Zingle Spanish Teacher Glastonbury High School, CT "The Sony digital language labs give students more opportunities to practice their interpersonal skills in the target language. Students are comfortable with computers and headsets. My students love the lab. When I pair them up, they work together and focus on their partner and just the task at hand. Nothing else distracts them." Click here to read the Language Learning Profile Case Study. Heather Wint Spanish Teacher Mountain Brook High School, AL "I used Sony Virtuoso technology to conduct activities throughout the school year. Because of the digital format, and the ease with which I was able to execute these activities, students had the opportunity to practice extensively prompts that are exactly like those on the AP exam. I am convinced that our language lab helped my students achieve success!"
Ted Sadtler Director, Goizueta Language Learning Center The Westminster Schools - Atlanta, GA "I wanted to thank you for maintaining a staff of such committed, skilled, and amiable people. I have been thrilled with the Sony products for the last year and a half, and this experience with your national staff reinforces what a great investment we have made." Click Here to Read the Language Learning Profile Case Study Kathy Basilotto, CI, M.Ed. Assistant Professor Interpreter Training Program Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ "Ever since purchasing the Sony Soloist® software, the students in our Interpreter Training Program are able to analyze various skills based components of American Sign Language and interpreting in order to improve upon their weaknesses and recognize their strengths. Students are afforded the opportunity to document their progress, which in turn provides a way to track their progress. This software allows students to create a video portfolio in order to present to prospective employers upon graduation. The software allows the instructors to create a corpus of work that students can use to practice with in order to enhance skill development. What is more, the software is a vehicle for instructors to use as an assessment tool in order to provide critical feedback to aid in the development." Georges Detiveaux - Language Lab Coordinator/Lead French Faculty Lone Star College-CyFair - North Harris Montgomery Community College District Cypress, TX Key Benefits of the Sony Digital Language Lab..."The immediate application to the real world using the paired activity features. It teaches students to negotiate meaning and is perhaps the most communicative of all activities. It provides the "now" aspect. It provides real time synchronous communication with instant feedback; live real-time communication between student/student and teacher/student." Click here to read more about this application. Edith Paillat Language Technology Specialist Victoria University of Wellington, NZ "The comparative recording capability in the Sony digital lab is an essential tool for both audio and video recording in our classes. Students are now getting used to recording and listening to themselves, and we can hear the positive results in their fluency." Click here to read the Language Learning Profile Case Study. Nancy Tassler International Language Lab Director Libertyville High School - Libertyville, IL "We LOVE the Sony Virtuoso APT software. It worked great - perfectly suited to the AP® testing methods." Dawn DeVere Hill ANA Language Project Coordinator Hannahville Indian Community, MI "Actual grades have improved since the lab was installed. Students seem to be retaining more because of the continuity - one concept flows to the next and there is order to the way students are taught." Click here to read the Language Learning Profile Case Study. Richard Edwards Senior Systems Engineer Clifton College - UK "The lab is working brilliantly. All of the Modern Languages teachers love it....even the ones that are not very technical. We have just finished all of our summer exams and they were all done in the lab without a single hitch. So a big thanks for all your help!" Michel Salazar-Linden Supervisor of World Languages Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School - Rumson, NJ "The kids and the staff love it. This staff is so creative, and our teachers are creating fascinating activities such as podcasts and webquests which are energizing this language program beyond anything that we could have hoped for." Vincenza Graham Chair, Foreign Language & ESL Roslyn Public Schools, Roslyn, NY "The lab has given students the opportunity to self-reflect and assess their language skills by listening to their own voices, their peers and real life access to media and music. All of these contribute in improving not only our AP scores but all of the foreign language classes that we offer at the middle and high school level." Jen Lin Mandarin Chinese Teacher Glastonbury High School - Glastonbury, CT "My students are making great progress in their first year of study. The Sony digital language lab is used extensively to reinforce their speaking and listening skills." Dr. Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco Assistant Spanish Professor Xavier University - Cincinnati, OH "The system allows the students to work at a level they understand. It also provides them with the opportunity to easily interact with other students in Spanish." Dan McDougall Chair, Sign Language Studies Madonna University - Livonia, MI "The Sony Virtuoso ASL system is a hit with everyone on campus. Students appreciate that the lab helps them identify areas for improvement, while teachers are thrilled to have new tools for teaching and assessment. We find that we can incorporate this technology into every part of our curriculum." Click here to Read the Language Learning Profile Case Study. Mary Morris Head St. Helen's Girls School Northwood - UK "Numbers of pupils wishing to take up language learning has significantly increased to the point where we have now equipped a second multi-media suite and are working to create a multi-media teaching environment across the whole school. We have also found that the use of multi media teaching is having a profound effect on the engagement of pupils in other core curriculum subjects: History, English and Classics are just three areas our Sony Virtuoso™ and Soloist® software is finding new and vibrant applications." Sharon Carlson, Media Technology Specialist Overland High School Aurora, CO "The language lab strengthens the process. Students feel less self conscious, try harder, and are more open to try new things in a lab than in a classroom. Audio, video, multimedia, computer drawings, and the internet provide culturally appropriate visuals and prompts with which students can interact. The lab is an efficient, organized, comfortable place to learn." Christopher Stormer, Director Language Learning Center St. Louis University St. Louis, MO "The software has been working great for us---Spring semester went very well as the "newness" of it wore off and people really got down to using it. I also discovered the neat "Image Scan" and picture sending capability of the Virtuoso Software this summer when I plugged in our document camera to the computer---very nice! I'm still looking for the "espresso making" function!" |
The true success of our technology is only realized in the ways that schools utilize it to enrich their language programs and to
provide more opportunities for students to communicate in a second language.
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