Who: Vardit Ringvald, Professor of Hebrew and Director of the Hebrew and Arabic Languages program, and Guy Antebi, Lecturer in Hebrew
LTS Liaison: Lisa Zeidenberg and Dave Wedaman
Program: Brandeis Hebrew Program
Overview
Until recently, the Hebrew Program stored all of its instructional multimedia resources on the University’s Network Share Drive (Omega.) However, Hebrew faculty found this solution unsatisfactory for two reasons: 1) It was difficult to find and access materials on Omega, and 2) students were unable to access multimedia resources outside of a specific class (i.e. they only had access to these resources when their instructor used them within a class structure). Vardit Ringwald, Professor of Hebrew and Director of the Hebrew and Arabic Languages program and Guy Antebi, Lecturer in Hebrew, asked LTS to help the Hebrew Program find an alternative means for sharing their multimedia resources.
Screenshot of the LATTE Site
After considering the needs and practicalities of the Hebrew Program’s request, Dave Wedaman and Lisa Zeidenberg of LTS recommended that the Hebrew Program utilize a stand-alone LATTE page for sharing its multimedia files. Instructors in the Hebrew program are already familiar with LATTE file management tools (and also have access to LATTE support staff should they require it), so all that was needed was to create a stand-alone LATTE page for Hebrew Program multimedia sharing, with appropriate permissions granted to faculty who would administer it (in this case, Guy Antebi).
Once the Hebrew Program had decided upon the stand-alone LATTE solution, it was easy to implement. Lisa Zeidenberg and Dave Wedaman requested that the Hebrew Program’s multimedia stand-alone course (modeled on an existing course with a similar format) be created, after which Lisa modified the LATTE page so that it would best fit the Hebrew Program’s needs for organizing and sharing files among its faculty and students.
With this new, improved, and easily-implemented stand-alone LATTE solution, students in the Hebrew Program now have improved access to Hebrew multimedia resources, which contributes to their understanding of Hebrew. Such exposure to Hebrew resources may ultimately improve their class performance and knowledge of the language. The LATTE solution also has several built in advantages: 1) LATTE is self-administered, and 2) it comes with the added benefit of full troubleshooting support via LATTE support staff.
Contributors: Guy Antebi, Vardit Ringvald, Lisa Zeidenberg
Last Updated: 01/15/09
