Language Laboratories

The computer center in the language laboratories is responsible for teaching languages ​​by technological means: audio, video and computers. At the same time, the laboratories are also involved in the broader aspect of teaching through technology: in creating curriculam, in setting up and maintaining websites, in providing teaching equipment through technology and more. The laboratories continue to provide services to the Faculty of Humanities in the field of Loaning teaching aids, and in addition provide the lecturers with equipment for converting study materials to digital format: video to DVD, audio to audio files (mp3), slide to image files (jpg) and more. also the issue of lending equipment for teaching through technology in the Faculty of Humanities. Today, the equipment in the laboratories includes a wide range of projectors: from computer, video and projectores. In addition, the lecturers provide equipment for converting study materials to digital format: video to DVD, audio to audio files (mp3), slide to image files (jpg) and more. Following the installation of amplification and projection equipment in the faculties of the Faculty of Humanities, the language laboratories also function as a telephone assistance center for teachers who teach in the classrooms.

Also in the language laboratories there is also a computer classroom for self-work similar to the classrooms in the computer centers.

 

Location and opening hours
 

Language laboratories from places in block 3, Faculty of Humanities. The computer class is number 2328.

Hours of operation and reception:
Sundays-Thursdays: 8: 00-18: 00
The self-study class is available at all university hours!

 

Teaching aids
 

The equipment in the language laboratories is divided into two: equipment that is permanently located in the language laboratories, and equipment that can be borrowed by the teachers for teaching in the classrooms.
The equipment can be ordered at the Language Laboratories Library face-to-face, by phone
Tel. 5883988, Tel. 5881729, or by email weblab@savion.huji.ac.il.

Every applicant must take equipment from the laboratories, sign a commitment form to take care of the safety of the equipment.
The equipment is taken from the Language Laboratories Library, Room 2311, and must be returned to the Language Laboratories Library. A teacher who wishes to receive equipment for a fixed day and time throughout the semester, is requested to send an e-mail request letter to the director of the language laboratories before the beginning of the semester: davido@savion.huji.ac.il.

 

Explanations for operating the equipment installed in the classrooms

The lecturer must receive instruction on the equipment in advance, whether it is mobile equipment or instruction on the operation of existing equipment in the classroom. The language laboratories function as a telephone center, which can be contacted for telephone assistance during the lesson. Whenever possible a supporter will come to help the class.
 

Contact us and for more information
 

For more information, suggestions and comments - you can contact the laboratory staff who are working at all hours of operation
Phone: 02-5881729, 02-5883988
Fax: 02-5882005
And by email: weblab@savion.huji.ac.il

 

Mail address

Language Laboratories
Division of Computing, Communications and Information (Mount Scopus Branch)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905.

Catalog of Study Materials and Instruction

List of languages ​​in the audio archive

Hebrew Italian Irish Amharic English Esperanto
Burmese Bengali Georgian German Dutch Hausa
Hungarian Hindi Yoruba Turkish Tibetan Greek
Yiddish Japanese Mongolian Swahili Chinese Mandarin
Cantonese Sanskrit Spanish Arabic Polish Portuguese
Persian French Korean Kyurandi Quechua Russian
others          

 

 

Borrowing and purchasing study materials

 

Students and lecturers may borrow or purchase audio tapes from the Language Labs Library. To do this, you must register as a subscriber to the library, and sign a contract to use the tapes for personal study purposes only, not to transfer them to another, and not to copy them.

  1.  A subscription to lending tapes allows you to borrow two tapes, ordered in advance, and receive them within three working days.
  2.  For the lending service, the borrower will pay a total of 50 NIS per semester or part of it.
  3.  You can purchase certain courses, which have been recorded by lecturers of the Hebrew University, and are listed below.

 

 

 

Some of the courses have also been transferred to CDs:

 

language

Course name

 

Num of Classes

price

 

Hebrew

Fundamentals of the Arabic language a

 

A/s12

 

14

25 nis

 

 

 

EL Kitab (2)

A/s17

 

 

20

15 nis

 

 

spoken arabic with pleasure

 

 

 

A/s18

 

10

25 nis

 

Chinese

Chinese texts for beginners by Dora Shikman

 

 

 

 

C/s6

 

26

120 nis

 

 

The Basics of the Chinese Language by Lehi Yariv Laor

 

 

C/s13

14

10 nis for tape

 

 

Introduction to Chinese grammar by Lihi Yariv Laor

 

 

 

C/s14

 

7

10 nis

 

 

Chinese pronunciation exercises

 

 

 

 

C/p4

 

2

10 nis

CD

French

French for Beginners (According to Gabriella Schur)

 

 

 

F/s11

 

23

120 nis

CD

 

Advanced French (according to Gabriella Schur)

 

 

 

 

F/s17

 

17

15 nis

 

Japanese

Japanese Beginners Texts Exercises

 

 

 

J/s6

 

37 (selling 1-7 )

120 nis 15 nis

 

 

Japanese texts for beginners

 

 

 

J/s7

 

12

10 nis for tape

 

Korean

Korean for beginners

 

 

 

K/s1

 

4

10 nis for tape

CD

 

Korean for one year according to Han Gu Eu

 

 

 

K/s5

 

2

10 nis for tape

CD

Russian

living Russian for the advanced

 

 

 

R/s8

 

27

25 nis

 

 

Russian with pleasure by Tatiana Roitman

 

 

 

R/s9

 

11

10 nis for tape

 

 

The Russian language for beginners (phonetics) Dr. Hitman

 

 

R/p2

 

6

10 nis for tape

 

Spanish

 

Fonetica Elemental

 

S/p3

 

 

2

15 nis

 

Sanskrit

Introduction to the language of the gods

 

 

SA/s1

 

 

1

10 nis

CD

 

 

Classrooms in language laboratories

The complex of language laboratories includes five teaching Classrooms and a self-study room

 

 

Laboratory A

Lab A is an audio (video) and video lab that includes a teacher stand and 23 audio stands for students and a large video monitor.

 

Lab B

Laboratory B, Bronfman Laboratory, is a "smart classroom" that includes a teacher stand and 25 student stands. This classroom is a system that enables instruction through computers, video distribution to student computers, and is also an audio lab for everything, both digital and analog. The entire classroom is connected to the university computer network and allows eavesdropping by the teacher on the student computers, the teacher's control over the students' computers, and an intercom call between the teacher and a particular student or all students.

 

Lab C

Lab C is an audio (video) and video lab that includes a teacher stand and 23 audio stands for students and a large video monitor.

 

Lab D

Inactive

 

Laboratory E

For self-work: A classroom used by students to listen to the library's programs independently. It works according to the hours of operation of the laboratory.

 

Laboratory F

Smart classroom for language learning with Barko, computer and video

 

Self-study room

Room 2328 located at the entrance to the language laboratories. This room includes infrastructure for self-listening audio (audio) systems and computers connected to the university computer network, identical to the farm configuration

 

Class

Number of computers

Laboratory A 23
Laboratory B - Digital 25
Laboratory C 23

 

 

Classroom classes in language labs

 

 

instructions for operating the equipment in the classrooms

Operating the projector (Barco) in room 2713

 

For projection from a laptop

 

1. Open the slide projector cabinet located in the back wall of the room with the key. (The cabinet opens upwards)

2. Take out the equipment below:

  • Screen cable (for two identical trapezoidal cables on each side)
  • Remote controle for Barco
  • Split extension cable (if necessary).

3. Go to the teacher's desk in front of the classroom to connect and install the equipment.

4. Connect one end of the monitor cable to the laptop and tighten the screws (before turning on the computer).

5. Connect the other end of the monitor cable to the connector located in the box to the left of the tutorial board,

    In the first connection called "laptop" and tighten the screws.

6. After connecting all the equipment, turn on the lightning bolt using the remote control by pressing the on button (the red button).

7. Using the remote control, press input function 1 for projection.

8. After turning on the lightning bolt and setting input mode 1, turn on the laptop.

9. At this point, the contents of the computer will be projected on the screen.

10. If the laptop display is not transferred to the tablet screen, press the F button on the computer keyboard.

     Which has a picture of a computer screen - several times until you get a picture on the tablet and computer screen.

 

 

Switching off and closing:

1. Turn off the laptop through the "Start" menu.

2. Turn off the flash by pressing the red button on the remote.

3. Disconnect the cables from all equipment: screen cable and power cable.

4. After the flash goes off, return the equipment to the projector cabinet:

  •  Screen cable
  •  Remote
  •  Extension and splitter cable

The key to the projector cabinet must be returned to the language laboratories and any technical malfunction that occurred during the lesson must be reported.

 

 

Operating a smart stand in room 2716

A key to the class can be borrowed at the language laboratories (2nd floor in block 3 of the humanities)

Activation of the position is possible only with a key!

  •  The projector is operated using the operating box located on the left side of the board (ON key).
  •  Open the closet door and turn on the desktop computer.
  •  Username is 2716 Password 2716.

 

Desktop computer

Select the desired software from the "Desktop"

 

Laptop

1. Connect the laptop to the computer cable on the desk

2. On the laptop Fn F5 (or Fn the F button on which a computer screen is drawn).

3. The laptop is displayed on the big screen. Disconnecting the laptop will return the projection of the desktop computer.

 

Video

1. Select the icon of the video on the desktop.

2. The video can now be used normally.

3. The volume control is done directly from the amplifier.

4. Another way to project from the video is to switch to video mode in the play box to the left of the panel.

 

Desk camera

1. Select the icon of the video on the desktop

(If you used video, turn off the video, close the window, and reopen it).

2. In this mode, when the video is off, the camera will appear on the big screen.

 

At the end of the lesson:

  •  Turn off the projector using the power box to the left of the panel.
  •    The computer does not need to be turned off (if you turn off only the "Start" menu)
  •    The classroom must be locked

 

Projector operation (Barko) in room 2718

 

For projecting from a laptop:

1. Open the cabinet of the slide projectors in the back wall of the room with the key.

2. Take out the equipment below:

  •  Data cable (for a cable with two identical blue trapezoids on each side)
  •  A sign for Barco
  •  Split extension cable (if necessary).

3. Go to the teacher's desk in front of the classroom to connect and install the equipment.

4. Connect one end of the monitor cable to the laptop and tighten the screws (before turning on the computer).

5. Connect the other end of the monitor cable to the connector (socket) located in the box to the left of the teacher board,

In the first connection called "laptop" and tighten the screws.

6. After connecting all the equipment, turn on the lightning bolt using the remote control by pressing the on button (the green button).

7. Using the remote control, press input function 1 for projection.

8. After turning on the lightning bolt and setting input mode 1, turn on the laptop.

9. At this point, the contents of the computer will be projected on the screen. If the laptop display is not transferred to the tablet screen, press the F button on the computer keyboard.

Painted on a computer screen - several times until you get a picture on the tablet and computer screen.

 

Switching off and closing:

1. Turn off the laptop through the "Start" menu.

2. Switch off the flash with two presses of the orange button until you receive a message that the device is preparing to switch off.

3. Disconnect the cables from all equipment: screen cable and power cable.

4. After the flash goes off, return the equipment to the projector cabinet:

  •  Screen cable
  •  Remote
  •  Extension and splitter cable

 

The key to the projector cabinet must be returned to the language laboratories and any technical malfunction that occurred during the lesson must be reported.

 

 

Operating a smart stand in Hall 300

 

A key to the cabinet can be asked at the language laboratories (2nd floor in block 3 of the humanities)

Activation of the position is possible only with a key!

  • When the position is opened, the amplification system is activated, and the computer screen fixed in the position lights up.
  •  To control the volume, there is a volume button located under the microphone.
  •  The position has groups of control buttons, with each group surrounded by a rectangle whose title represents what each group controls.

Buttons surrounded by a circle represent possible sources of projection through the projector.

Projector (Barko)

1. Turn on the projector by pressing ON, this button also lowers the screen (simultaneously).

2. The information that will be transferred to the projector automatically is from the computer

3. To switch to another source, press one of the round buttons that represent other sources

(Surrounded by a circle): camera, video, laptop, computer.

computer

1. The station has a computer with a USB port, a CD / DVD drive and an Internet connection.

2. The keyboard connected to the computer is on a removable shelf under the lecturer's desk.

Camera

1. Above the stand door is a camera, where three-dimensional objects can be displayed.

2. The control buttons allow zooming in and out (zoom in, zoom out).

3. To project from this source, press the round "Camera" button after turning on the projector.

Video

1. There is a multi-system video device in the position and after inserting the recording, the video can be controlled from the table (play, stop buttons, etc.).

2. To project from this source, press the round "Video" button after turning on the projector.

3. in the existing computer at the station has a drive that also plays a DVD.


lighting

Lighting control is not performed from the desk facing the lecturer, but through control buttons on the left side of the stand.

Laptop

1. Connect the laptop to the stand using a dedicated cable, located to the left of the video (inside the stand).

2. To project from this source, press the round "Laptop" button after turning on the projector.

3. If the laptop display is not transferred to the large screen, press Fn F5 (or Fn the F button on which a computer screen is drawn).

 

  At the end of the lesson the system should be turned off by locking the stand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scan on public computers

General instructions for scanning with the standard scanner

 

  1. Open a scan program by double-clicking the icon on the desktop: MP NAV or by pressing the SCAN button on the scanner itself.
  2. Select SCAN / IMPORT.
  3. Select PHOTOS / DOCUMENTS.

סריקה 1

 

4. Select SCAN. For advanced options, select Use the scanner driver

5. After the scan appears:

סרקיה 2

 

General instructions for scanning in the feeder scanner

 

  1. All pages to be scanned should be placed inside the scanner, facing down, without pins.
  2. Select the function number using the arrow buttons on the scanner. The following is a list of functions:
  1. Scan to PDF in automatic, double-sided detection.
  2. Scan to PDF in black and white, double-sided.
  3. Scan to PDF in gray, double-sided.
  4. Scan to PDF in color, double-sided.
  5. Scan to PDF in black and white, one-sided.
  6. Scan to PDF in gray, single-sided.
  7. Scan to PDF in color, one-sided.
  8. Scan to JPEG in color, one-sided.
  9. Scan to PDF with OCR (English text recognition).

3. Press SCAN on the scanner to perform the scan (in initial activation moth click once more).

 

 

I scanned, where are my photos?

The default of the scanning software is to save the images on the desktop. If you want to save the image files, you need to transfer them to your personal drive or to portable media, because files that are on the desktop are deleted after restarting the computer.

 

How to reduce the size of an image?

If you received an image with too high a resolution, you can use the XnView software that appears in the application window. Now after opening an image in the software, you can reach the resize menu by pressing Shift + S. When saving the image, you should change to jpg type. And save in order to significantly reduce the file size.