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1. Do not follow the instructions for installing apache-maven-3.0.4  on “Windows 2000/XP”, or your final test running mvn –version to verify that it is correctly installed will fail.
2. When adapting the Environment variable path, do not use %M2_HOME%\bin, but rather repeat the explicit path, e.g. “G:\conf\lang\java\apache\maven\apache-maven-3.0.4” 
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4. Why is that?

1. Tired of burning, lugging around, inserting, ejecting, or forgetting, losing, scratching and replacing CD- and DVD- media, or hard- and thumb drives to handle your large multimedia files? Do you have internet and web browser where you need to access and play your files? Then you can use UNCC Google Apps  instead.
2. Go to your UNCC Google Apps (you have to log into UNC)
3. Click on the Hard-drive-icon in the upper left and on “files”, select a video file:
   1. (many formats and underlying codecs supported, including Flash, MOV, AVI, WMV, MPG. File size limits: currently “every user is given 1GB of free storage space for files” (not enough for much HD footage, but difficult to upload, and didn’t Google Drive just increase this limit to 5GB, or does this not carry over to Google Apps? Stay tuned for updates), click “Start upload”..
4. Wait until upload is finished, and then, depending:
   1. if you want to share the file with colleagues, click on “share” (appears after “cancel”) and fill out the dialogue. You can share your file both
      1. inside the university community and
   2. outside of the university community:
   3. if you want to share the files with students in your course, there is a better way using Moodle Kaltura video upload;
   4. if you just want to play the file yourself (including to your students in the classroom), you are already done.
   5. Go to your files and click on the file in the list to play the video:
   6. Also, you can always “get your file back” by “Download”: (and note you can also prevent users from downloading the files. This is useful if you only want to temporarily share it, but later revoke permissions).
5. More help is available from the  from the  source
   1. How save files to your Google Docs
   2. How to play back video files in Google Docs

1. There are many ways, including many that are easier than doing it manually in Audacity.
2. MergeMP3 is a free and easy one that worked here:

1. DVDs are getting a bit long in the tooth, not to mention VHS, and can form a real obstacle or time-consuming distraction in an educational setting, from handling the media to finding compatible software and/or hardware players for the media.
2. Fortunately, there is a now a better way to make video clips available to students than uploading them to YouTube.com:
   1. university-supported,
   2. more compliant with copyright and fair use restrictions (which still apply)
   3. also requiring only a web browser (available on all campus computers, including teacher computers in classrooms, including those that have no (region-free) DVD-player installed)
   4. and a course enrolment. But access to a Moodle course can  now be considered a given, both for teachers and students.
3. Moodle Kaltura allows for easy
   1. uploading of a video file by the teacher
   2. viewing by the student (streamed – Flash required, not different from YouTube.com).
4. View a screencast example how easy it is with Moodle Kaltura to upload and playback a video clip from a movie DVD.
   1. Not different from YouTube.com, you still need to edit out the segment from the DVD that you want to show in your class,  uploading a full DVD I do not intend to test.
   2. From this example, you can also get an idea how long the server-side encode takes before the video an be streamed back to students: the short clip of a few minutes here starts playing back at 12:40. Naturally, a teacher would prepare their course, including all video uploads, before the term starts or possibly before the week starts, or, in extremis, before the class starts – in practice, only the – extremely unlikely – scenario where the teacher would try and upload the video during the class is not supported.

1. View screens (best viewed side by side, but note that left and right screen are not synchronized):
   1. for full slide show (note the included short links for convenient further reading), left screen
   2. for Sanako interface and full audio track, right screen.
2. Table of contents:
   1. Overview of a Sanako Oral Exam
   2. Examples of Exam teachers’ exam question recordings
   3. Example of a Sanako Exam
   4. Loop induction
   1. creating an exam question recording
   2. by taking a Sanako exam as a student
   5. Step-by-Step of administering a Sanako oral exam
   6. Grading Sanako oral exam student files
      1. Sanako voice insert for
         1. facilitating recording oral assignments for student without hard-coded pauses
         2. commenting on student responses during grading
   7. Sanako authoring tool for providing visual on top of aural cues to students
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1. Symptom: Audacity installation seems to complete without error, but attempting to start Audacity at the end of the installation process results in an error about bad environment with the above error code.
2. For your reference: It is has been the missing Visual C++ redistributable installation here in the past on staff computers.
3. Solution: Download and install the redistributable, then try restarting Audacity: It should start now.

A 70-sec screencast:.

1. This 100-second authoring tool screencast shows how to
1. preview the audio in the authoring tool,
2. add an image and
3. set its display time on the timeline,
1. If you make an error by assigning non-sensible times, the authoring tool helps you by flagging it red:



4. save (save frequently, on my Windows-XP SP3 machine, the image display within the authoring tool caused frequent BSODs, seemed video-driver-related).
2. View results (application during a class) here.

1. All other things equal (given a limited amount of time), teachers can provide more and better corrective feedback on student oral proficiency recordings if, during their grading, they could easily insert their own oral comments into the students’ recordings (delivered as MP3 files to teachers’ desktops after Sanako oral exams).
2. Both the Sanako Tutor and Student Player have a voice insert mode that is much easier and quicker to use than (albeit not free as) editing the student audio in Audacity (which we still recommend for bare-bone viewing/listening because of Audacity’s capability of loading and displaying multiple tracks simultaneously).
3. Fortunately, Sanako tutor/student player are available on the teacher/student station PCs in the LRC (the latter’s insert function is available when the PC connected to the running Sanako Tutor on the teacher station).
4. How easy and fast is it to use this? As you can see in this demo screencast on how to use Sanako voice insert to add spoken comments into your students’ Sanako oral exams, voice insert only requires:
1.  a click on the voice insert button in the center, whenever a user wants to speak during listening,
2. and, from the top left menu, a “file”/ “save as” at the end.
5. In a next step – not only during the grading process –, how easy is it to distribute student recordings made with Sanako to students? That is TBA:a different story.