Thomas' Work Space

1. This is 20 students class doing a model imitation for English phonetics and grammar – use right half of classroom plus 2 rightmost columns of left half.
2. Have a couple of spare student computers logged in as labadmn (not  as presenter: has no permissions to s-drive to  save recordings) for emergencies.
3. Your students will log in, then take their break. Wait until entire class shows up in the Sanako Classroom layout. Then you can lock their keyboard and mouse  – but remember when computers go into locked mode, Sanako cannot control them
4. See http://plagwitz.org, upper right corner “Quick links” for the path to copy/paste. Or, on the  teacher computer in LRC 434, in folder C:\Temp, you can find a shortcut to the Sanako folders
   1. “media” with teacher audio (to be prepared with pauses and beeps once it has been recorded and sent; you can easily prepare it yourself: download and view how with Windows Media Player);
   2. “student” with student recordings
5. You can download and view with Windows Media Player the (unedited) screencast of our summative walkthrough here.

This 7-minute screencast explains how to operate the Study-1200 software interface to administer an oral exam, using as audio source the teacher, providing cues live:

1. 0:00: from selecting the activity and program source,
2. 1:50: over start and use of the autoscan screen control feature to monitor both audio and screen of the examined students
3. 3:45: to ending the exam and automatic collection of the exam files.

For an implementation during an actual class-wide oral exam, see Part II of the Study-1200 oral exam.

This 5-minute video shows how an actual oral exam in interpreting from French to English, using the software instructions from Part I.

Audio Source is a prerecorded mp3 file. Other sources are also possible, including live teacher microphone

Students speak during hardcoded pauses after listening to program track – insert recording without hardcoded pauses is also possible.

Clear structuring of the exam is recommended for first-timers, including adding clear audio signals in the program track when to speak and stop.

Content

0:00

teacher explains exam format (structure of audio with gaps for students to respond (here interpreting) and cue when to begin / end responding)

0:55

explanation of Sanako player volume control

1:35

students can’t believe their luck: “it is going to record automatically?” – “you do not have to do anything!” Just language (that’s the point, isn’t it?)

2:08

audio started

2:30

beep – students speak  (cut to abridge)

2:40

beep – end of student response  – beginning teacher track

3:32

beep – end of student response

4:10

beep – end of student response  – beginning teacher track

4:50

end (file collection is not show, teacher only needs to press in activity pane button “End”  and in folder name dialogue button “OK”)