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How a teacher can use Sanako voice insert to easily add spoken comments to students’ Sanako oral proficiency exams

2012/04/25 Leave a comment
  1. All other things equal (given a limited amount of time), teachers can provide more and better corrective feedback on student oral proficiency recordings if, during their grading, they could easily insert their own oral comments into the students’ recordings (delivered as MP3 files to teachers’ desktops after Sanako oral exams).
  2. Both the Sanako Tutor and Student Player have a voice insert mode that is much easier and quicker to use than (albeit not free as) editing the student audio in Audacity (which we still recommend for bare-bone viewing/listening because of Audacity’s capability of loading and displaying multiple tracks simultaneously).
  3. Fortunately, Sanako tutor/student player are available on the teacher/student station PCs in the LRC (the latter’s insert function is available when the PC connected to the running Sanako Tutor on the teacher station).
  4. How easy and fast is it to use this? As you can see in this demo screencast on how to use Sanako voice insert to add spoken comments into your students’ Sanako oral exams, voice insert only requires:
    1.  a click on the voice insert button in the center, whenever a user wants to speak during listening,
    2. and, from the top left menu, a “file”/ “save as” at the end.
  5. In a next step – not only during the grading process –, how easy is it to distribute student recordings made with Sanako to students? That is TBA:a different story.
Categories: audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, e-languages, grading, multimedia-recording, Presenter-Computer, Screencasts, service-is-assessing, Speaking, Student-Computers Tags: , , ,

Protected: Sanako Study 1200 Final oral exam for advanced Business Spanish: A Job interview

2012/04/19 Enter your password to view comments.

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Categories: Advanced, Arabic, audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek (modern), Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, learning-usage-samples, Listening, LRCRoomCoed434, Mandarin, multimedia-recording, Photos, Polish, Portuguese, Presenter-Computer, Russian, Screencasts, Spanish, Speaking, step-by-step-guides, Student-Computers, Swahili, Videos, Yoruba Tags: ,

Sanako Study 1200 controlled web browsing–strict policy

2012/04/18 Leave a comment
  1. View an sanako-webbrowsing_Thumb 80-seconds screencast showing how a teacher can set up a student activity where students are only allowed to access on web site.
  2. In this example, the website is a common dictionary: http://www.dict.cc which the student will be allowed to access during an exam (in lieu of a paper dictionary policy).
  3. Never mind that the voiceover is partially in German – the video should be self-explanatory. If not, here is a written step-by-step on Sanako controlled webbrowsing.
Categories: audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, documentation, e-learning, Presenter-Computer, Screencasts, Student-Computers Tags: ,

Final Cut Pro Introduction

2012/04/13 Leave a comment

(A handout from the Film Studies program – click on photo for larger view)

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Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, COED037, documentation, Documents, Film-studies, presenter-computer, Scans, software, student-computers Tags: ,

Labstats Error

2012/04/11 Leave a comment
  1. Computer fails to shut down, with this error:
  2. CIMG0010
  3. Pressing “Debug” does not do anything.
Categories: Glitches&Errors, Presenter-Computer Tags:

Protected: New LRC Calendars/Equipment mailboxes visible to students

2012/03/22 Enter your password to view comments.

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Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, Reception-desk, service-is-library Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

If students have no mp3 audio on LRCRoomCoed433a Listening Stations

2012/03/20 Leave a comment

Problem: A Student that took the French Respondus Lockdown browser on PC 43, when playing to listening comprehension files,  had no audio on her headset (except for her microphone input was played back for her. The test is single attempt only, and lockdown browser prevents us from troubleshooting.

Cause: Master volume for Wave and SW Synth on lrcroomcoed433b back to 0, like so:

Workaround: plug in one of the black headsets (USB) temporarily (plugging in another brown headset did not resolve the issue).

Solution: None currently: even when the Respondus lockdown browser is not running, Deepfreeze will not allow making changes, and changes in the current user profile will not affect users whose profiels gets created upon login (which is all student users). Longterm: Don’t try to run identical software images on different hardware configurations. Not as longterm: Autoit FTW?

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, Listening, Listening-Stations, service-is-it-managing, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging Tags: ,

The base hardware parts of the LRC iMacs

2012/03/20 Leave a comment
  1. Not so base that it all very much depends:
    1. LRC Room 434b
      1. West: Early 2009
        1. HT3470-2HT3470-3
      2. More on Apple’s website.
    2. East: Mid 2009 [?]
  2. LRC Room Coed037
    1. West (4, black rear panel): Mid 2011
    2. East (8, aluminum rear panel): Mid 2007
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-infrastructure, iMacs, student-computers Tags: ,