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Fall 2012 Faculty Workshop II: Clinic on creating teaching materials for use with the Sanako
2012/11/22
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- (Being planned and scheduled, therefore this post is a work in progress, please stay tuned: ).
- As a continuation (and practical application ) of our previous Intermediate Sanako Teaching Techniques Workshop (and a repetition of our Learning material creation Clinic from the summer), we will create learning materials.
- Bring some ideas and materials. The Sanako and entire LRC infrastructure aims to lower the technical authoring requirements.
- We can record remotely, all authoring teachers at the same time, your source (model/question material) which you will be able to distribute as easily (“ loop induction”) from the Sanako teacher station. Bring some questions your students should be able to respond to in L2, and be prepared to read some text that you want them to repeat, for pronunciation practive
- We can author hand-outs for so-called “homework” (actually reading and writing, with supervision and collection by the teacher as easy as the handout): It just takes opening one of our customized LRC MS-Word templates. I will hand out (more loop induction) “homework” files to aid your work. Bring some texts and essay writing tasks
- PowerPoint exam files with visual cues: bring some ideas for vocabulary quizzes.
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How a teacher can use Sanako voice insert to easily add spoken comments to students’ Sanako oral proficiency exams- step–by step
2012/11/19
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- Requirements:
- you need access to the network share to open/save student recordings (this works in your office;
I do not know whether there is technology supported on campus thatthis makes this work in your home office also, - you need to have the free Sanako student recorder Lite installed, here is how: Just “Run” the above link.
- Recommended: in the student recorder, from menu: TBA, set your “default save directory” to the current folder with the student recordings – otherwise you have to change the save as dialogue back to this destination for each file you save.
- you UPDATE: DO NOT ANYMORE need to disable the voice graph (
notcompatible with voice-insert recording; you can, however show the voice graph again when done recording and reviewing the file) - you need to save the student recording, updated with your comments, in the same folder with the same file name as the source (when “saving as” and choosing the name, preferably do not type it, but rather select or copy/paste it. The original file will still be preserved since your version will be saved in a a different format and therefore have a different file extension)
- you need access to the network share to open/save student recordings (this works in your office;
- TBA:you can rewind to listen, and re-record to overwrite comments that you want to revise
- More training:
Protected: Update: obsolete, our faculty simply run http://goo.gl/e0ljX instead of needing to know about: Installation options to choose for installing the free “lite” Sanako student recorder….
2012/11/19
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Sanako Light Recorder insert recording has no teacher track audio, but voice graph?
2012/11/19
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- UPDATE: We reinstalled and this time made sure we restarted the system, and voice-insert is working fine now.
- We are trying to introduce having teachers using the Sanako voice-insert feature to issue spoken feedback into student assessment recordings, since the Sanako Recorder makes voice-insert as easy as
- the (repeated) click of red “speak” button
- and a “save as” (default format MFF preferred).
- On a teacher computer, we recorded and saved as
- either MFF (fast for the teacher to save; we were hoping to have the students download the free Sanako light recorder to be able to play this format;
- or WMA.
- We tested playing back, and hear the student original audio recording, but could not hear the teacher insertion, no matter whether we tried
- in the Sanako light recorder
- or in Windows Media Player.
- Because of the proprietary formats, it is a bit difficult to troubleshoot this. Audacity won’t open either audio format.
- In the Sanako light recorder, we can see the audio inserted in the 2nd track (lower) in the voice graph:
- Is this a licensing restriction? No, even the free light recorder can do this. See here for the installation options to choose when running the studentrecorder.exe on the teacher computer.
- Investigating… Update:
- Must be demonstration effect, as voice insert works fine on my office computer, as expected and it had before.
- Will try the usual suspects when getting my hands on this computer again (refresh, restart, reinstall, replace hardware…)…
Protected: Report on LRC classroom usage for language classes in Fall 2012
2012/11/19
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How you can resolve Enterprise Library 5 Visual Studio 2012 error: "Could not locate the Enterprise Library binaries required to launch the configuration console"
2012/11/17
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- When right-clicking on my App.config to access the Enterprise Library configuration tool, I kept getting this error:
- after installing
- VS.net 2012;
- Enterprise library 5.0.414 through nuget (why does nuget install only this older version?);
- the unofficial Enterprise Library Extension vsix updated for VS.net 2012 published by the Enterprise Library team here.
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What fixed this error for me was (YMMV, November 2012):
- installing Enterprise Library 5.0 optional update 1 (=5.0.515) using this approach:
- msiexec /i "Enterprise Library 5.0.msi" REINSTALLMODE=vomus REINSTALL=ALL
- – Adding to the vs.net 2012 SLN file, at the end of "Global" (immediately before "EndGlobal")
- GlobalSection(ExtensibilityGlobals) = postSolution
EnterpriseLibraryConfigurationToolBinariesPath = C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0\Bin
EndGlobalSection
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