{"id":2409,"date":"2014-08-29T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2015-01-23T15:29:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T23:29:34","slug":"welcome-to-the-language-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/2014\/08\/welcome-to-the-language-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Language Lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Language Lab\u2014one of the best places on campus to study! We are located in the lower level\u00a0of the Hauser Memorial Library, next to the Instructional Multimedia Center (IMC). The primary function of the Language Lab is to serve as an aid to the foreign language classrooms, as well as for any independent study of languages. We have some new equipment this fall:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10 new 27-inch iMacs<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10 new 15-inch MacBook Pros for checkout (use in the Language Lab only)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10 new Blu-ray players that can show foreign movies from the IMC<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 a big screen for your movie watching pleasure<\/p>\n<p>The Language Lab is a space for the language learning community and is especially useful in the evenings&#8211;come meet with a drop-in language tutor or ask tech\/resource-related questions of a langlabbie (language resource assistant). The langlabbies, under the direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/cis\/about\/staff\/zhang.html\">Weiwei Zhang<\/a>, Reed\u2019s Foreign Language Instructional Technologist, have a wealth of language teaching and learning materials. If you are looking for any study materials, let the langlabbies or Weiwei know.<\/p>\n<p>In addition class time and independent study use, you can also reserve the lab for:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 foreign movie parties<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 cultural celebrations<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 study-abroad presentations<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 language and culture presentations<\/p>\n<p>Make reservations with <a href=\"mailto:zhangw@reed.edu\">Weiwei<\/a> (zhangw@reed.edu) at least a week in advance! Last but not least, please let us know if you have any questions regarding the language lab. We are here to help you!<\/p>\n<p>Here is to Fall 2014!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Language Lab\u2014one of the best places on campus to study! We are located in the lower level\u00a0of the Hauser Memorial Library, next to the Instructional Multimedia Center (IMC). The primary function of the Language Lab is to serve as an aid to the foreign language classrooms, as well as for any independent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/2014\/08\/welcome-to-the-language-lab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to the Language Lab!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}