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Fall 2012 Faculty Workshop I: Intermediate Sanako Teaching Techniques

2012/11/22 plagwitz Leave a comment

(Being planned and scheduled, therefore this post is a work in progress, please stay tuned: ).
Using the Sanako classroom management system for training (“loop induction”),
we will present learning usage models, based on the work done by our language teachers in the LRC Sanako this term.
We will then provide you with hands-on practice how you can do the same with the Sanako system.
This will hopefully give you some ideas for for writing LRC visits into your face-to-face teaching syllabus next term.
To facilitate this, we will continue with a follow-up Workshop II: Clinic, where we will help you prepare your Sanako-based learning materials for next term.
You can review our past Sanako Workshops (online screencast).

Categories: announcements, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, documentation, e-languages, Listening, LRCRoomCoed434, Reading, service-is-applying-learning-tools, service-is-training, Speaking, workshops, Writing Tags: sanako-study-1200

Protected: Report on LRC classroom usage for language classes in Fall 2012

2012/11/19 plagwitz Enter your password to view comments.

Categories: audience-is-administration, e-languages, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, LRCRoomCoed434, marketing, reports Tags: calendaring

Announcing new MS-Word templates for writing assignments during face-to-face-classes in the LRC

2012/11/08 plagwitz Leave a comment

Benefits
1. MS-Word is technology that has become “transparent”for most users:
  1. Have teachers focus on assignment pedagogy, not authoring technology.
  2. Have students focus on the target language, not authoring technology.
2. Document is protected (for restricting formatting to predefined Word-styles):
  1. Have students focus on form or content, but not on distracting formatting issues.
  2. Styles are designed to facilitate teacher monitoring students’ work using Sanako screensharing, like so:
3. Take advantage of MS-Office Proofing tools (templates are preset for your target language).
4. Take advantage of easy assignment file management with Sanako homework activity.
5. Take advantage of internet lookup process, especially pedagogical if you combine with Sanako controlled-web-browsing activity
Requirements:
1. Teacher
  1. 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)
  2. Then base your writing assignment document on the template (e.g. by double-clicking the template in the folder you saved it to).
  3. Then save your writing assignment to your class material folder on the Sanako network share (from the office or in the LRC).
  4. In class, launch the Sanako homework activity.
2. Student: none other than downloading and submitting the Sanako homework.

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 Tags: homework-activity, MS-Word, sanako-study-1200, screensharing, templates, trpStudentWriting, web-browsing-activity

Phishing warning from Safari on reception desk computers…

2012/11/07 plagwitz Leave a comment

… 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).

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, Reception-desk Tags: safari

Protected: How teachers find their Sanako materials

2012/11/06 plagwitz Enter your password to view comments.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, learning-materials, Presenter-Computer Tags: configuration, FAQs, files, sanako-study-1200

How to mix SANAKO- recorded individual students’ audio tracks together

2012/11/05 plagwitz Leave a comment

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".