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Archive for November, 2012
How to play Windows media on the MAC OS platform
2012/11/12
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LRC-provided Windows Media encoded audio and video learning materials files can easily also be played on the MAC, since Microsoft supports Windows Media also on the Mac-platform.
Mac users can download wmv/wma support for the Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or later, QuickTime version 7.0 or later) from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx for free. In this download from Microsoft, Windows Media® Components for QuickTime are now “new & improved”.
Categories: learning-materials, software
apple-Mac-OS, audio, FAQs, windows-media, windows-media-audio, wma
Protected: Our assessment results after 1.5 years with Sanako Study 1200
2012/11/09
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Categories: audience-is-administration, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, e-languages, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, learning-usage-samples, marketing, Metrics, recording-software, reports, Screencasts, service-is-assessing, Speaking, Spreadsheets, Writing
oral-exam, sanako-study-1200
Announcing new MS-Word templates for writing assignments during face-to-face-classes in the LRC
2012/11/08
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- Benefits
- MS-Word is technology that has become “transparent”for most users:
- Have teachers focus on assignment pedagogy, not authoring technology.
- Have students focus on the target language, not authoring technology.
- Document is protected (for restricting formatting to predefined Word-styles):
- Have students focus on form or content, but not on distracting formatting issues.
- Styles are designed to facilitate teacher monitoring students’ work using Sanako screensharing, like so:
- Take advantage of MS-Office Proofing tools (templates are preset for your target language).
- Take advantage of easy assignment file management with Sanako homework activity.
- Take advantage of internet lookup process, especially pedagogical if you combine with Sanako controlled-web-browsing activity
- MS-Word is technology that has become “transparent”for most users:
- Requirements:
- Teacher
- The easiest is to save the writing template for your language in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033 (or if your run 32-bit MS-Word on a 64-bit Windows, C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033)
- Then base your writing assignment document on the template (e.g. by double-clicking the template in the folder you saved it to).
- Then save your writing assignment to your class material folder on the Sanako network share (from the office or in the LRC).
- In class, launch the Sanako homework activity.
- Student: none other than downloading and submitting the Sanako homework.
- Teacher
Categories: announcements, audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, e-languages, office-software, Presenter-Computer, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-learning-materials-creation, service-is-programming, Student-Computers, Writing
homework-activity, MS-Word, sanako-study-1200, screensharing, templates, trpStudentWriting, web-browsing-activity
Phishing warning from Safari on reception desk computers…
2012/11/07
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… is a harmless glitch. The root cause is that the computers are sometimes extremely slow to start up. We resolved the issue today by simply restarting (not just logging off and back in).
Protected: How teachers find their Sanako materials
2012/11/06
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How students can do voice insert recordings with Sanako Study 1200 student recorder – the ultimate training summary…
2012/11/06
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