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Checklist for light-kits

2013/12/11 plagwitz Leave a comment

Parts: 25 each, .i.e.:
1. 4 plates (1)
2. 2 more plates (2)
3. 3 extension power cables (3)
4. 3 lamps (4), containing 3 bulbs (not pictured)
5. 2 thingamabobs (5)
6. 8 clamps (6)
7. 2 stands (7)
Functionality: plug them in and turn them on, like so:

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, checklists, documentation, e-infrastructure, Film-studies, service-is-library Tags: asset-management, light-kits

Sanakoaudioconfigonthefly software utilities updated for Vista/Windows7

2013/12/09 plagwitz Leave a comment

(Shortcut to download – now fixed) The reason why a colleague’s signature reads: “Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it’s on fire" (Bruce Sterling) might just be that a multimedia-capable fully computerized classroom – think 30 PCs and 30 students trying not only to listen to, but record responses to exam audio – is a notoriously difficult beast to control, and all too easily spins out of the same (a classroom humming in an endless audio feedback loop is neither a pleasant nor an unfamiliar sight).
The Sanako Study 1200 is a digital audio lab software that facilitates the use of personal computers in face-to-face class settings. However, while the Sanako Study 1200 features many ways for the teacher to control and manage the student PCs, the students’ audio settings cannot be controlled on the fly.
Enter these little sanakoaudioconfigonthefly utilities (written in AutoIt) for Windows 7 and Vista (old Windows PX version still available here) that extend the Sanako Study 1200.
We now use (as it is completely adequate and actually superior to to the seemingly more applicable PC control / Launch programs features which is requires the program executable to reside under the same path on student and tutor computer) Playlist / copy and launch (folder icon) and the Sanako grouping feature to send a program with your choice of action to the student PCs of your choice. In this example,

click playlist,
and in the window that opens, click (1) to send to “all”, then click (2) to select which program to send:

Files included in this release (each for 64-bit, and as source code, so that you can compile your own if you are still on MS-Vista/MS-Windows-732-bit platform):
1. Change student recording levels (microphone sensitivity).
2. Toggle student sidetone ( in Sanako = “listen” to this device in Windows)
3. Control student playback level (headphone volume).
Likely these programs can be adapted beyond Sanako Study 1200, but I do not remember (helpful comments appreciated)
1. whether other digital audio lab platforms (Sony Virtuoso, Robotel SmartClass) allow for changing the student audio config on the fly
2. and what mechanism (if any – but likely) they (and Sanako Lab300) provide to launch programs on the students’ computers
Prerequisites:
1. None other than your digital audio lab software and the utilities you can download below. In particular, it is not required to install AutoIt on teacher or student computers.
2. However, there should be only 1 microphone/speaker per student computer in the digital audio lab. If you have more, you likely have bigger problems to solve first, but you also need to alter the source code (included) to select the microphone you want to work with (should be easy; note however, that I have not tested this scenario, for: “There should be only 1 microphone/speaker per student computer in the digital audio lab”
Request here to download these utilities.

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-manager, digital-audio-lab, multimedia-recording, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-programming Tags: 7, autoit, ms-windows, robotel-smartclass, sanako-lab-300, sanako-study-1200, sanakoaudioconfigonthefly, sony-virtuoso, vista

Request to download the digital audio lab classroom audio configuration on the fly, program and source for Windows 7

2013/12/09 plagwitz Leave a comment

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Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-manager, compiledcode, digital-audio-lab, e-infrastructure, forms, service-is-programming, sourcecode Tags: audio, autoit, ms-windows-7, MS-Windows-Vista, sanako-study-1200, sanakoaudioconfigonthefly

Free German online proofing tool by Duden

2013/12/09 plagwitz Leave a comment

Don’t have MS-Word Proofing Tools, and can’t come to the LRC which has proofing tools for German and many other languages installed?
Try Duden’s (= authoritative German dictionary publisher, and nowadays much more) free (up to 800 characters at a time; a time-limited (=30 days add-in for MS-Word is also available) Online version:
Use it wisely: Learning is not cheating. But please consult your teacher whether this is legitimate help.
Now how’s the quality? Drop us a comment below.

Categories: audience-is-students, German, websites, Writing Tags: proofing-tools

Protected: CTL’s Mahara Workshop in the LRC

2013/12/05 plagwitz Enter your password to view comments.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-languages, eportfolio, instructional-technology-unit, Screencasts Tags: mahara

Another way to upload many files into Moodle 2

2013/12/04 plagwitz Leave a comment

Last time we started from “Add folder” to get to the handy drag-and-drop file upload control in Moodle 2.
This time we do not want to create a new folder, but work within an existing folder (better for categorizing lots of files).
Browse into the folder and click edit
click create folder
add name and click create
click to open folder
drag/drop files as zip in folder
oops, check the upper right warning :
Split your files into smaller segments
And be patient, there is no visual indicator of progress, or any action, after the drop), or else you get duplicates:
Just delete duplicates you might have created:
click on each zip file and choose “unzip”:
Delete the zip files (not needed anymore)
Finally, click “save changes”
Note, by working within a folder, you cannot link directly to the new folder you created. It should however be easy enough to navigate to it if you send the link to the root folder, here “Interaction”.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-learning, lms, training Tags: files, folders, moodle

How teachers can collect any file from students’ computers with Sanako Study 1200 homework–the ultimate training…

2013/11/22 plagwitz Leave a comment

…using animated .gifs. Different speed? 0.25sec,0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, , 1.5sec, 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec. 1.5sec

Categories: animated-GIFs, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, e-learning, training Tags: homework-activity, sanako-study-1200

How to record screencasts with Kaltura in Moodle 2

2013/11/18 plagwitz Leave a comment

Go to your video assignment in Moodle: .
Click “Record screen”, “Add”, and pass the Java security Dialogues:
The default video resolution is 640*480, but you can change this by unfolding the drop down menu:
Full screen is recommended for a Slideshow:
To start, click the red record button:
You will get a few seconds to collect your thoughts:
After finishing your slide show, stop the recording from the taskbar icon, and stop the recording: .
From the video window that opens:
1. You can preview it
  And upload it which includes encoding which takes a bit of time (but not as much as encoding of webcam footage).
Finally,
1. you can see the result in your media library
3. preview it once more:
4. and submit your video content from the media library.
Kaltura screencasts can be used from any Java-compatible device. In the LRC, however, you can also record screencasts to files, using MS-Community Clips which you can still upload to Kaltura – extra step, though –, while maintaining compatibility with Mahara.