the call facility - University of Victoria

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WELCOME TO
THE CALL FACILITY
(CLEA051)
Have a seat up front
and your CALL Facility
Language Orientation
will start soon!
THE FIVE MAGIC WORDS…..
CALL FACILITY
ORIENTATION
UVIC PDF
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WELCOME TO
THE CALL FACILITY
Orientations, demonstrations and drop-in for
French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian,
Chinese, Japanese, Linguistics, Norwegian,
Indonesian, Portuguese, Greek, ESL,
Klingon, Sindarin and even more languages!
Access to many digital language resources!
A BRIEF HISTORY OF
SPACE , TIME ... and CALL!
Open since the Fall of 1989. THAT = 4 Decades!
7500 + users each year ... and growing!
Oodles of language resources & technology
Websites, software, digital audio and more
Free access to Internet and email with Netlink ID
Many courses require weekly attendance (CLEA051)
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
- An English Professor, Ohio University
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IMPORTANT ORIENTATION INFO
Important CHD Webpages
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond;
cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain
CALL FACILITY
Statutory Holidays and other Scheduled Events
CLOSED on all 2016 Statutory Holidays
st
1
New Year’s Day, January
th
Family Day, February 8
th
Good Friday, March 25
th
Easter Monday, March 28
rd
Victoria Day, May 23
st
Canada Day, July 1
st
BC Day, August 1
th
Labour Day, September 5
th
Thanksgiving, October 10
th
Remembrance Day, November 11
Christmas Break, December
th
24
to January
nd
2
2016-2017 Academic Year Important Dates
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
2017
CALL Facility Information
You NEED to Know!
Weekly attendance of ___ minutes ___ visits (not all courses though)
Please check in at the Front Counter (entrance to CLEA051) for each visit!
Please tell us your Course AND Session! Why? For YOUR HOMEWORK!
UVIC/CALL Copyright (©) Policy:
No Software, CDs, DVDs etc. from “outside” CALL, except . . .
ORIGINAL resources (DVDs, CDs) are allowed in CALL
Printing Policy - 12¢ per page / 40¢ COLOUR! (Network Printers around the corner)
Drop-in Facility. Wait lists for computers MIGHT happen! @#$%^*@!
Bring your own A/V headset. We DO provide for Skype & Audacity (USB)
Weekly attendance throughout the semester for many courses!
Important enough to mention this TWICE!
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
IMPORTANT INTERNET SITES
CALL Facility Hours
http://www.uvic.ca/systems/facilities/
ZOHO - Language Bookmarks
AND on all browsers (OSX/WIN)
http://creator.zoho.com/calllab/call-facilitybookmarks
http://www.uvic.ca/systems/facilities/
Computer Availability (BEC, CLE, HSD)
computeravailability/index.php
CALL Facility Orientation .PDF file
CALL Facility Orientation UVIC pdf
(Google Search!)
CALL Facility e-mail address
[email protected]
The Computer Help Desk
http://www.uvic.ca/systems/about/
clientservices/servicecentre/index.php
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can
control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
- Philip K. Dick
GENERAL RESOURCES
52 Dual-boot iMacs (OSX/WIN) in The CALL Facility
Word Processors, Spell Checkers, Language software etc.
SKYPE installed on all computers!
ZOHO - CALL Facility Bookmarks
AUDACITY - Free program for both OSX/WIN
Send us feedback at: [email protected]
Suggestion Box in CALL, or send us email!
CALL Facility Orientation online!!
NO food or drink, please (mugs are okay, not cups!)
NO writing on tables, please! This DOES happen!
Need to save your work? USB Flashdrive, UVic Temp, FTP
Remember to ALWAYS check in - to record your minutes!
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
- William Shakespeare
PS: Bring
your own
headsets,
please!
CALL FACILITY RESOURCES
CHINESE
FRENCH
GERMAN
ITALIAN
JAPANESE
LINGUISTICS
RUSSIAN
SPANISH
CST
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
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General
Resources
CHINESE RESOURCES
Audio Files in .mp3 format (CALL)
Chinese at UVIC
Pacific and Asian Studies at UVIC
Pacifc & Asian Language Courses
Language Placement PAAS
Department News
OTHER RESOURCES
ZOHO - Language Bookmarks
Contemporary Chinese Textbooks
Contemporary Chinese 1-4 (WIN Only)
Audacity Free for both OSX/WIN Word Processors:
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me
that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
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- Arnold Edinborough
NJStar (WIN only)
MS:Office 2016 for OSX & WIN
Libre Office for OSX & WIN
FRENCH RESOURCES
Audio Files in .mp3 format (CALL)
French Department at UVIC
UVIC Flore
Tex's French Grammar y'all!
ZOHO - Language Bookmarks
Super Links to French Resources
Exercices Interactifs de Français (CW)
TV5 Monde
AUDACITY - Free for both OSX / WIN
Je me suis souvent repenti d’avoir parlé,
mais jamais de m’être tu.
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- De Commynes
OTHER RESOURCES
Écho, Vis-à-vis CD-ROM & DVDs
Word Processors:
MS:Office 2016 for OSX & WIN
Libre Office for OSX & WIN
GERMAN RESOURCES
Deutsch: Na klar 6th Edition
Deutsch? Na Klar! Blogspot .... in San Francisco!
Germanic Courses at UVIC
Germanic and Slavic Studies at UVIC
News and Events @ UVIC
Audio Files in .mp3 format (DNK 5th)
AUDACITY - Free for both OSX / WIN
ZOHO - Language Bookmarks
Never knew what eternity was made for. It is to give
some of us a chance to learn German.
? - Mark Twain
OTHER
RESOURCES
DNK (4th Ed.) Text & CD-ROM
DNK (5th Ed.) Lab Manual
Word Processors:
MS:Office 2016 for OSX & WIN
Libre Office for OSX & WIN
ITALIAN RESOURCES
Salve! 2nd Edition (Nelsonbrain.com)
Salve! 2nd Edition .mp3 files (CALL)
Da Capo 7th Edition (Nelsonbrain.com)
Hispanic & Italian Studies Department
Italian Studies Learning Resources
ITALIAN TA HOURS
Stations #25 to #28
Il Centro & other News websites
Wednesday 2:30 - 3:30 Irene
Prego! An Invitation to Italian 7th Ed. Friday
11:30 - 12:30 Irene
CIAO! 6th Edition
OTHER RESOURCES
Salve!, Ciao! DVD, Textbook, Lab Manual
ZOHO - Language Bookmarks
Identidades DVD, Video CD, .mp3 files
AUDACITY - Free for both OSX / WIN
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
? - Rudyard Kipling
Prego! CD-ROM
Word Processors:
MS:Office 2016 for OSX & WIN
Libre Office for OSX & WIN
JAPANESE RESOURCES
Genki 2nd Edition .mp3 files (CALL)
Mr. Yan
FULL DVD in CALL
Asian Language Courses at UVIC
Pacific and Asian Studies at UVIC
Japanese at UVIC
Department News
ZOHO - Language Bookmarks
OTHER RESOURCES
AUDACITY - Free for both OSX / WIN
DVDs: Mr. Yan, Japanese for Busy People, etc.
Textbooks
Word Processors:
MS:Office 2016 for OSX & WIN
Libre Office for OSX & WIN
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
? - W. B. Yeats
LINGUISTICS RESOURCES
PDB Live On-line Phonetic Database
Ditidaht, English (Canadian), Russian, Skagit, etc.
Linguistics Resources at UVIC
Software and Resources at UVIC
Audio Files in .mp3 format (CALL)
Department of Linguistics at UVIC
Current News at UVIC
ZOHO - Language Bookmarks
AUDACITY - Free for both OSX / WIN
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
? - Hazrat Inayat Khan
OTHER RESOURCES
LIPS - Phonemic & Phonetic Transcription
Praat - OSX and WIN (FREE!)
Audacity - FREE Program to record voice!
Word Processors:
MS:Office 2016 for OSX & WIN
Libre Office for OSX & WIN
OSX & WIN IPA Fonts
RUSSIAN RESOURCES
Golosa 5th Edition
Russian for Everyone
Audio Files in .mp3 format (CALL)
Germanic and Slavic Courses at UVIC
Germanic and Slavic Studies at UVIC
News and Events @ UVIC
ZOHO - Language Bookmarks
AUDACITY - Free for both OSX / WIN
OTHER RESOURCES
DVDs: BBC Russian, Live From
Moscow, Golosa Text/Lab Manuals
Word Processors:
MS:Office 2016 for OSX & WIN
Libre Office for OSX & WIN
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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English
-- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
- Carl Sagan
SPANISH RESOURCES
Hola Amigos 3rd Canadian Edition
Dicho y hecho - WileyPLUS.com
Hispanic & Italian Studies at UVIC
Hispanic Learning Resources UVIC
Department News & Events UVIC
Audio Files in .mp3 format (CALL)
ZOHO - Language Bookmarks
¡Arriba! Flash Cards
¡Hola, amigos! 2nd Canadian Ed.
Spanish 100 Practice Exams
De Paseo Spanish 250 (Flashcards)
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I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.
- Pablo Picasso
OTHER
RESOURCES
Spanish TAs - Office Hours in CALL! Sept-April ONLY!
¡Hola, amigos! 2nd Edition Textbook, Student Manual,
Music, Audio Files, DVD
De Paseo Textbook, Lab Manual, Audio, DVD
Identidades Textbook and Student Activities Manual
¡Hola Amigos! 1st ed. Textbook, Student Activities Manual,
Answer Key, Manual for Community Based Learning
Conexiones Textbook, SAM, Answer Key, Audio Files
DVDs: ¡Arriba!, ¡Pura Vida!, Entrevistas
Conexiones CD-ROM (OSX/WIN)
Word Processors:
MS:Office 2016 for OSX & WIN
Libre Office for OSX & WIN
SPANISH RESOURCES II
¡Arriba! Flash Cards
Spanish 100 Practice Exams
¡Hola Amigos! 6th Edition
¡Hola Amigos! 7th Edition
Spanish TA - Computers #33 & 34 !
Tuesday:
12:30 - 1:20
Maggie
Tuesday:
2:30 - 3:20
Taylor
Wednesday: 1:30 - 2:20
Kathryn
Wednesday: 2:30 - 3:20
Lydia
Thursday:
2:30 - 3:20
Isaac
September 19th to December 2nd (Not during Reading Break)
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We don’t grow older, we grow riper.
- Pablo Picasso
CONVERSATION
CAFE
Thursdays 1:00 - 1:50
MacPherson Library 151b
September 19th to
December 2nd
CONVERSATION CAFÉS
Conversation
Cafés Information
Conversation
Cafés Schedule PDF
Conversation cafés provide opportunities for you to
practice your skills in a variety of languages, such as
German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian and
Spanish.
Sessions are facilitated by UVic graduate students,
and are open to all UVic students, faculty and staff on
a drop-in basis, regardless of language proficiency.
Refer to the 2016 fall term schedule for
dates, times and locations.
https://www.uvic.ca/international/home/international-commons/index.php
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur
- Doug Larson
CST SPANISH RESOURCES
Netlink Main Menu - make and verify computer accounts
Spanish audio (CALL only): Hola Amigos + Alicia B.
Hola Amigos website: drill, audio, tests, etc...
¡Hola, Amigos! Flashcards (for each lesson)
CALL Facility bookmarks (ZOHO) : all Spanish websites
Alternative study resources: Arriba website (audio, exercises, flashcards)
Hola Amigos textbook/workbook (at Front Counter)
Arriba textbook and lab manuals (in CALL bookshelves)
Arriba DVDs: Vistas Culturales, Entrevistas, Pura Vida
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Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Calvin would have
loved .....The CALL!
As far as I am concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t
explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.
- Calvin
THE FINAL WORD ... ON CALL
ANY
QUESTIONS?
Survivor
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CALL
Facility!