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Protected: Report on LRC classroom usage for language classes in Fall 2012
2012/11/19
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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
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Protected: How teachers find their Sanako materials
2012/11/06
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How to mix SANAKO- recorded individual students’ audio tracks together
2012/11/05
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- If the students’ audio tracks are not already time-aligned, first use audacity: "time shift tool" to align individual tracks
(with this tool selected, you can move individual tracks back and forth, to the left or right). - If/ When they are time-aligned, use audacity/ menu: tracks/"stereo track to mono".
How to view LRC hours&events ….
2012/11/04
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How teachers restrict students to allowed web pages with Sanako Study 1200 web browsing (strict) activity–the ultimate training summary
2012/11/01
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…using animated GIFs. Load the speed of your choosing (or several, use CTRL-Click to open links in a new tab) into the left screen of the teacher station before administering an oral exam, with the window active, press F5 in your web browser to restart the animation from the beginning:0.50sec,0.75sec,1sec,2sec,3sec,4sec,5sec,6sec,7sec,8sec,9sec,10sec
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Condensed (instructions only) for recap: 100cs, 200cs, 300cs, 400cs, 500cs, 600cs, 700cs, 800cs, 900cs, 1000cs. And if you need to pause:
LRC teacher screen new and improved
2012/11/01
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The above screenshot (taken from a screencast) does not do the new screen justice: Teachers can actually read all the ongoing student work, and, with two clicks, intervene surgically, where necessary.
On the right screen of the teacher PC in the main LRC classroom, we went from WXGA to HD1080, gaining almost 60% more screen real estate (=(1920*1080)/(1280*1024)), a crucial improvement for displaying all the information the Sanako Study 1200 provides the teacher with.
Or in more graphical terms (thanks to Wikipedia), we went from 2nd lower left to 3rd upper right:
To fit the actual classroom layout into the display, we would however need the bottom lower right resolution (WQXGA). We still have to split the classroom you see into 2 halves and tilt those by 90 degrees clockwise to fit them onto the right teacher screen.
Since our left screen is still the original 1024*768 (and will be until not only the screen, but the switch and projector get upgraded), you have to work (= move your mouse pointer) around the “wall” formed by the black block in the lower right of this screenshot.
How to conduct a Sanako Study 1200 functionality test before oral exams
2012/10/30
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- Why? Before high-stakes oral assessments, it is best practice to test the functionality of all computers in the digital audio lab.
- How?
- Log into 2 computers with your own account (these will serve as a backup computers. Should you need backup computers later, there will be no delay waiting for them to start up and become operational).
- Change Sanako classroom layout names to computer or position name (whatever makes it easier for you to identify any non-functioning machines).
- If you are doing this for a first time with a class, load your test exam audio into Audacity and display the voice graph to students on a projector. This way you make sure that students understand from the voice graph that they are supposed to
- hear an instruction over the headphones and
- respond to the instruction by saying their names into their microphones.
- Perform a name-test recording using Sanako activity:”Model imitation”and examine the results:
- Make sure the Sanako collection folder opens – meaning all student recordings could be collected. If not, identify the offending positions from the Sanako collection dialogue and open the folder with the remaining collected recordings manually from the Sanako collection dialogue
- Drag the recorded files into an empty Audacity window and examine the collected recordings visually, plus, where in doubt, aurally, by clicking “solo” and play on the track in question.
- React accordingly:
- If some positions show problems, move students to one of the backup machines that you logged into earlier.
- move backup machines not needed to a different session by right-clicking on their classroom layout icon.
- if more than one backup machine is indeed needed, Sanako – since it is you who are logged in on both – will ask you later for permission to number collected files for duplicate students sequentially. Allow that and rename the files manually.
- Don’t forget to change Sanako classroom layout names back to student login name.
. Or else here is how you can later recover student recordings by student login names.
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