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Use of technology in teaching is supported at Brandeis by the Research & Instructional Services group of Library and Technology Services. RIS staff can help you apply technology in a lot of interesting ways that can benefit your teaching. Contact us for more information (e-mail ris@brandeis.edu).
Research & Instructional Technology services can assist you with language-specific software.
Research & Instruction Services will help you put just about any type of media or document on-line in a LATTE course. LATTE is Brandeis' online learning environment. In addition to making media sharing simple, LATTE also comes with other features than can help your teaching: chat rooms, discusson forums, an online assignment drop box, and more.
LATTE courses are automatically created before every semester. You decide whether you want to use your LATTE course and make it accessible to your students. To log in to LATTE go to http://latte.brandeis.edu.
If you'd like to have an introduction to using LATTE, visit the Faculty Resource Center at the Main Library (Goldfarb Library, Level 1).
Research & Instruction Services staff are happy to make audio materials that accompany your language textbooks available for your students on-line. To do this, we first seek permission from the textbook publisher, then we digitize the files and put them in the proper form to stream from our QuickTime streaming media server. Virtually all the language materials accompanying language textbooks in use at Brandeis are currently already on-line: they simply need to be added to your LATTE course.
Students do need to have the free QuickTime Player software installed on their computer to hear the files. A link to this free software is available on the LATTE help pages. This software is already installed in all the library computer clusters and the Facutly Resource Center. Headphones can be checked out from the Goldfarb Library listening desk.
If students have problems accessing LATTE or hearing the language files, please direct them to contact LATTE Help (latte@brandeis.edu or x64739). Additionally, we keep local copies of all on-line language files in the unlikely event of a network outage or LATTE failure.
Media Technology Services (MTS) will provide a projectionist to show your video, and help you reserve the equipment or room necessary, for any video showings during regularly scheduled class sessions. For special showings outside of class sessions, MTS charges a nominal fee. For more information, contact MTS at x64637.
Send questions or comments to clusters@brandeis.edu, or by call x65227 (x6LABS).
All classroom audio-visual equipment is supported by Brandeis Media Technology Services, who can be reached by e-mailing mediaservices@brandeis.edu or by calling x64637.
Most language-specific software questions can be addressed by support staff in the Faculty Technology Center, which is located in Goldfarb Library, Room 115. Support staff can be reached by e-mailing ris@brandeis.edu or by calling x64739.
Information about all the services LTS supports for students of foreign languages is available through our Language Student FAQ. You may find this information usefull as well. Consider adding a link to this page to your course syllabus!
Foreign-language spell-checking in Word is available in all the clusters. For more information on clusters, and spell-checking instructions, have your students visit our Language Student FAQ.
Special, language-specific keyboards for selected languages will be stored with the Goldfarb Library circulation desk and checked-out upon request.
Contact clusters@brandeis.edu with any request to install new software in a library computer cluster. Installation requests must be made at last one week in advance, and preferably two weeks in advance. Please bear in mind that if your software needs to be purchased or licensed, funding will need to be secured before software can be installed.
