Comments on: The Name Game http://languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/ Language learning and technology for teachers and technologists, K-16 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:33:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jose Rodriguez http://languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/#comment-9659 Jose Rodriguez Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:22:27 +0000 http://www.languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/#comment-9659 Hi All, My official HR title is Business Analyst II. My functional title and what is on my business cards is Director of Technology, Emory College Language Center. There is another tech position in the center - Senior Multimedia Specialist (HR title). His functional title is Language Center Coordinator. The Center is part of Emory University, but we serve mainly the College of Undergraduates, hence The Emory <i>College</i> Language Center. However, I welcome all and don't turn away non-college requests. My hope is that we will one day officially serve the entire university so I keep my doors as open as possible, though our mission and funding say different. Emory University Language Center has a nicer ring, n'est-ce pas? Hi All,
My official HR title is Business Analyst II. My functional title and what is on my business cards is Director of Technology, Emory College Language Center. There is another tech position in the center - Senior Multimedia Specialist (HR title). His functional title is Language Center Coordinator. The Center is part of Emory University, but we serve mainly the College of Undergraduates, hence The Emory College Language Center. However, I welcome all and don’t turn away non-college requests. My hope is that we will one day officially serve the entire university so I keep my doors as open as possible, though our mission and funding say different. Emory University Language Center has a nicer ring, n’est-ce pas?

]]> By: Jackie http://languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/#comment-9657 Jackie Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:25:45 +0000 http://www.languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/#comment-9657 I'm catching up on my reading, so pardon the delay. Want to help people remember your title? FLIT So how does it feel to be the campus FLIT? Could be much worse, you know. :-) I’m catching up on my reading, so pardon the delay.

Want to help people remember your title? FLIT
So how does it feel to be the campus FLIT? Could be much worse, you know. :-)

]]> By: Dick House http://languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/#comment-9239 Dick House Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:33:43 +0000 http://www.languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/#comment-9239 Barbara: I'm the Director of the Parker Language Resource Center. Until I took my (newly re-authorized) position in 2002, the space was the Parker Language Lab. It took a lot of convincing that the mission I was hired for was really different and that the "resources" of the space were new and greater. Nearly everyone now refers to our space as the LRC, sometimes as the Resource Center. (Paradoxically, I sometimes now find MYSELF slipping into "the LAB." I think this reflects whether we're talking about student self-study at the moment, rather than the "language learning educational technologist center director teaching position library liaison lecturer server dude,” to which you refer. THAT, by the way, is the perfect title - captures all my duties (except also for liason with Computer and Information Systems). Barbara: I’m the Director of the Parker Language Resource Center. Until I took my (newly re-authorized) position in 2002, the space was the Parker Language Lab. It took a lot of convincing that the mission I was hired for was really different and that the “resources” of the space were new and greater.

Nearly everyone now refers to our space as the LRC, sometimes as the Resource Center. (Paradoxically, I sometimes now find MYSELF slipping into “the LAB.” I think this reflects whether we’re talking about student self-study at the moment, rather than the “language learning educational technologist center director teaching position library liaison lecturer server dude,” to which you refer.

THAT, by the way, is the perfect title - captures all my duties (except also for liason with Computer and Information Systems).

]]> By: Colleen http://languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/#comment-9233 Colleen Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:56:22 +0000 http://www.languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/#comment-9233 I don't remember the last time I had this much fun reading a blog:) Language Teachers are flying solo at my university. The dark glass room in the corner is called FLMC : Foreign Language Media Center No full time staff- part time work studies checking out movies and rolling scary AV equip around. Thankfully IT loaded us up with a lab that holds 25 all in one computers (managed by IT dept.) I don’t remember the last time I had this much fun reading a blog:)
Language Teachers are flying solo at my university.
The dark glass room in the corner is called
FLMC : Foreign Language Media Center
No full time staff- part time work studies checking out movies and rolling scary AV equip around.

Thankfully IT loaded us up with a lab that holds 25 all in one computers (managed by IT dept.)

]]> By: tripst3r http://languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/#comment-9223 tripst3r Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:52:37 +0000 http://www.languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/10/the-name-game/#comment-9223 To tack on to our developer @Susan, my b-card title is System Administrator and Senior Programmer, my position title is Manager I, and I am employee #76378 (visions of Patrick McGoohan). We're blissfully large enough that we've got people whose titles probably fall outside the domain of your paper, such as us in the nerd room. Old skool Elis, such as yours truly, still occasionally think "Language Lab" since that was the old common name. We still refer to the Constitution as the Articles of Confederation, too. To tack on to our developer @Susan, my b-card title is System Administrator and Senior Programmer, my position title is Manager I, and I am employee #76378 (visions of Patrick McGoohan). We’re blissfully large enough that we’ve got people whose titles probably fall outside the domain of your paper, such as us in the nerd room. Old skool Elis, such as yours truly, still occasionally think “Language Lab” since that was the old common name. We still refer to the Constitution as the Articles of Confederation, too.

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