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Error code 14001 when installing Audacity
- 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.
- For your reference: It is has been the missing Visual C++ redistributable installation here in the past on staff computers.
- Solution: Download and install the redistributable, then try restarting Audacity: It should start now.
Professional Development for Persian instructors
Persian Curriculum Design (Advanced)
Startalk Program in Washington DC
June 4, 2012 — June 15, 2012 ~ Residential Program
In the course of two intensive weeks, this program will help instructors in facing the challenges of the twenty-first century in teaching Persian. This professional development program will include sessions on standards-based curriculum planning, multi-media technology, learner-centered classroom strategies, and second language acquisition theories, as well as familiarity with assessment tools. Applications are accepted from novice and experienced instructors of Persian. Familiarity with Standards-based language teaching preferred. A limited number of stipends ($500) will be available to applicants, and accommodation available for out of town participants.
DEADLINE: April 30, 2012
To apply, please fill out the application here, and email your CV to persian@gwu.edu. Please forward any inquiries to persian@gwu.edu, or call for inquiries: Professor Pardis Minuchehr at (202) 994-7948.
How to use Audacity to repeat audio cues for students when creating listening learning materials
How to combine oral cue audio with images in Sanako Study 1200 authoring-tool
- This 100-second authoring tool screencast
shows how to
- preview the audio in the authoring tool,
- add an image and
- set its display time on the timeline,
- If you make an error by assigning non-sensible times, the authoring tool helps you by flagging it red:
- save (save frequently, on my Windows-XP SP3 machine, the image display within the authoring tool caused frequent BSODs, seemed video-driver-related).
- View results (application during a class) here.
How to use visual instead of aural cues during a Sanako oral proficiency exam
- This exam file has been authored with the Sanako Study 1200 TBA:authoring tool. It is displayed from the Sanako tutor application:
- images on a projection screen connected to the teacher computer,
- aural portion through the tutor-controlled Sanako student player and headsets.
- To protect the integrity and allow for reuse of the exam, only the initial instruction, example and collection of the results of an exam with visual cues are shown in this screencast
.