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How to start YouTube videos from the middle

2012/10/10 Leave a comment
  1. To avoid having to manually find a segment of a YouTube video clip during presentations, or worse, downloading the video clips from YouTube before the presentation, to edit them into shape,
  2. try using the “&t=”(for “time(line)”, I presume) query parameter, followed by “#m” (for minutes) and "##s” (for seconds) where the segment you want to show starts.
  3. Example links that you can try inserting into your PowerPoint Slide deck:
    1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDngRk5vImU starts the movie clip Aicha part 1/10 from the beginning;
    2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDngRk5vImU&t=1m10s starts Aicha at 1 minute and 10 seconds;
    3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDngRk5vImU&t=5m10s starts Aicha at 5 minutes and 10 seconds.
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MyGermanLab shortlinks and step-by-step chapter test for GERM1201, GERM1202 classes

2012/10/10 Leave a comment
  1. Using Internet Explorer, go here: goo.gl/JUSUC.
  2.  Log into MyGermanLab.
  3. to open your test:
    1. Click on the assignment for today on your assignment calendar to the right: image
      1. if your test does not show as assignment in the calendar (Update for proctored make-up exam: this applies espeially to you), go to the top tab: “course materials”“. Hold the CTRL key and click on the assignment
        1. either in the list on the right or
        2. at the bottom in the list on the left.image

     

    1. Enter the password that you will be given during the exam in the LRC: image, hold the CTRL key and click button: “OK”.
    2. Click  button: “start”. image
    3. Click through the pages until it tells you you have “submitted” the test.
  5. to handle multimedia:
    1. Use the headsets hanging behind the screens for questions that require listening/speaking.
    2. When you load the audio player or audio recorder, you will see  a dialogue like these, click button: ”Run” or “Trust”:mylanguagelab-certificate-blackboard-wimba-20121010_110002image
    3. There is a step-by-step guide on how to record here.
    4. If you get an error for the audio recorder saying “Authentication failed”, keep calm and carry on, your recording is not lost, you only cannot review it anymore: mylanguagelab-blackboard-wimba-authentication-failed
    5. If you have a question, do not disturb others. Rather put your headsets on and get in the queue by clicking button: “Call” in this  window image. Your call will be answered shortly.
  6. Please be advised that this exam is
    1. proctored and that your screen can be seen by the proctor at any time.
    2. randomized, so that your neighbors’ screen will most likely display your current test question at a quite different time.
Categories: assessments, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, German, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, learning-materials, service-is-training, step-by-step-guides Tags: , , , ,

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Group conference with all students and the teacher using Sanako Study 1200

2012/09/28 Leave a comment
  1. To set up the maybe most common language classroom activity – everybody listening or talking to everbody else (whether student or teacher) –
  2. try this with the Sanako Study 1200 – plus have no student fade off because of “incomprehensible input” caused by bad classroom acoustics and self-conscious learners mumbling –:
  3. image
    1. Activity pane: discussion, start –> students can talk with each other
    2. Button:talk –> teacher can talk to students
    3. Student icon / popup-menu: teacher can hear students – not only the one from the student icon, but anybody in discussion.
Categories: audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, Listening, Speaking Tags: , , ,

How to link your LRC tutor calendar and Moodle metacourse from your Moodle course

2012/09/26 Leave a comment

Click on image to view screencast:

Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, lms, Screencasts, service-is-library, service-is-tutoring, training Tags: , , ,

Oral assessments with Sanako model imitation – The ultimate training summary…

2012/09/25 Leave a comment

…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. Slower? Expanded:050cs, 075cs, 100cs, 150cs, 200cs, 300cs, 400cs, 500cs, 1000cs.Or compact for recapitulation: 025cs, 050cs, 075cs, 100cs, 150cs, 200cs, 300cs, 400cs, 500cs, 600cs, 700cs, 800cs, 900cs, 1000cs.

Categories: animated-GIFs, assessments, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, Presenter-Computer, Screenshots, training Tags: , ,

Shortlinks for French phonetics classes

2012/09/25 Leave a comment

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goo.gl/faI3F

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sdrv.ms/1arkBnY

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goo.gl/gIZpn

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goo.gl/G2WFr

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goo.gl/MnneE8

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Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, French, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Slideshows, Speaking Tags: , , , ,

Video quizzes on Youtube.com in Beta

2012/09/23 Leave a comment

Video Questions Editor lets channel owners display multiple-choice questions on top of their videos as they play (I see only a “start” in the timeline), offer hints, get results on your feedback page.

But if it supports only summaries, not usernames, it is more a poll than a quiz, which limits it usefulness in foreign language classes as much as that you apparently are limited to your own uploads, and cannot link your questions to the wealth of foreign language video uploaded by others…

Categories: assessments, audience-is-teachers, e-learning, learning-materials, service-is-evaluating-learning-tools, Videos, websites