Language lab facility

Welcome to the DIGITAL wonders of the language lab! Here is a list of selected hardware and software available in the language lab.

Hardware

• 30 multimedia desktop computers with Headphone, DVD player and CD burner
• 2 servers
• 2 flatbed scanners
• 1 Network printer
• Other analog A/V equipment

Software

The following applications are available on desktop computers in the language lab:

• General-purpose application package
  • Microsoft Office 2003 Professional: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and FrontPage (with French and Spanish support)
• Multimedia players
  • DVD player
  • Microsoft MediaPlayer
  • RealPlayer
• Internet applications
  • Web: Internet Explorer 7
  • Email: Outlook Express
  • FTP: WS_FTP, WinSCP (secured FTP)
  • SSH: SSH-enabled Tera Term Pro (also supports Japanese)
  • Telnet: SimpleTerm (with Chinese support)
• Webpage authoring
  • Microsoft FrontPage 2003
• Multilingual language processing
  • Both input methods and fonts are installed on all lab computers.
• Image processing
  • Photoshop CS 2
• Audio processing
  • Audacity for digital audio recording
• Electronic document publishing
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
• CD burning
  • Easy CD Creator 5.0 (Basic edition)
• Language learning
  • Placement tests for French, German and Spanish
  • RosettaStone V 2.1.5 (Most languages)

Access course materials online;
Edit document with Microsoft Office XP. Multilingual support is available such as Spanish and French spelling checkers and Chinese and Japanese language support;
Access the Internet such as web surfacing and using email;
Record and/or digitizing photos and other images;
Record and/or digitize audio and video materials;
Edit and publish webpages;
Duplicate audio and video cassettes and CDs;
Store and remotely access your personal data files (Note: Restricted to FL graduate students and faculty).

For more information, please visit our  HelpDesk.