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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 plagwitz Leave a comment

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).
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).
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).
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:

a click on the voice insert button in the center, whenever a user wants to speak during listening,
and, from the top left menu, a “file”/ “save as” at the end.

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.

2012/04/24 plagwitz Leave a comment

7 responded, 1 commented. OP=Oral Proficiency.

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View an 80-seconds screencast showing how a teacher can set up a student activity where students are only allowed to access on web site.
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).
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.

2012/04/13 plagwitz Leave a comment

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

2012/04/12 plagwitz Leave a comment

THATCampPiedmont, hosted at Davidson College, announces:
“THATCamp stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp.” It’s an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot.
If you’re interested in the Humanities; or,
if you’ve just begun thinking about your research or teaching in conjunction with technology; or,
if you’re accomplished using or interpreting technology; or,
if you’ve been wondering why the digital humanities have been garnering so much attention at professional conventions…
…you will likely find it fascinating to participate in the THATCamp we are hosting here.
Participants meet the morning of the event and decide what to talk about.”
Limit: 75 registrations.

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