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Help with MyLanguageLab recordings

2012/11/28 plagwitz Leave a comment

Taken almost straight from the BB_Voice_Troubleshooting_Guide.pdf:
When using the Voice Recorder, first click the (0) blue “Record” to load the recorder. You may have to accept a security warning.
Then click the (1) red record button
IMPORTANT: Click the (2) black STOP button to save your recording. (If you do not click the stop button, your recording will NOT be saved and your instructor will not be able to hear your voice). When you stopped, the timer in the upper right will change from showing “time remaining” to “time recorded”.
Click the (now not grayed out, but ) green PLAY button to confirm your voice was recorded. If you do not hear anything, check your microphone and the volume controls on your computer.
If you wish, to re-record your voice,
1. click the red record button again.
2. Click YES when asked if you want to Override Current Recording.
3. Re-record and again click STOP. and play to Playback your recording.
When finished, Click Submit for Grading to submit the recording to your instructor for review.

Categories: audience-is-students, e-languages, multimedia-recording, textbooks, websites Tags: mylanguagelab

Protected: Slides for ARBC1201 Oral Exam

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Categories: Absolute-Beginner, Arabic, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, learning-materials, Slideshows, Speaking Tags: oral-exams

Some concrete examples on how to use the Sanako Study 1200 Playlist and Pairing in language teaching

2012/11/27 plagwitz Leave a comment

From the Sanako-UK Fall 2012 Newsletter – click on the link or article for accessing the full newsletter (Hint: No need to wear suit&tie when using the LRC Sanako; headsets, however, tend to be a required accessory Smile ).

You can learn more here on how to use Playlist and Pairing. Or visit our Fall 2012 Faculty Workshop I: Intermediate Sanako Teaching Techniques and the following Fall 2012 Faculty Workshop II: Clinic on creating teaching materials for use with the Sanako

Categories: audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, learning-usage-samples, LRCRoomCoed434 Tags: pairing, playlist, sanako-study-1200

Fall 2012 Faculty Workshop II: Clinic on creating teaching materials for use with the Sanako

2012/11/22 plagwitz Leave a comment

(Being planned and scheduled, therefore this post is a work in progress, please stay tuned: ).
As a continuation (and practical application ) of our previous Intermediate Sanako Teaching Techniques Workshop (and a repetition of our Learning material creation Clinic from the summer), we will create learning materials.
Bring some ideas and materials. The Sanako and entire LRC infrastructure aims to lower the technical authoring requirements.
1. We can record remotely, all authoring teachers at the same time, your source (model/question material) which you will be able to distribute as easily (“ loop induction”) from the Sanako teacher station. Bring some questions your students should be able to respond to in L2, and be prepared to read some text that you want them to repeat, for pronunciation practive
2. We can author hand-outs for so-called “homework” (actually reading and writing, with supervision and collection by the teacher as easy as the handout): It just takes opening one of our customized LRC MS-Word templates. I will hand out (more loop induction) “homework” files to aid your work. Bring some texts and essay writing tasks
3. PowerPoint exam files with visual cues: bring some ideas for vocabulary quizzes.

Categories: announcements, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, documentation, e-languages, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, learning-usage-samples, Listening, LRCRoomCoed434, Reading, service-is-learning-materials-creation, Speaking, workshops, Writing Tags: MS-Word, sanako-study-1200, templates

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

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

2012/11/19 plagwitz Leave a comment

Requirements:
1. you need access to the network share to open/save student recordings (this works in your office; ~~I do not know whether there is technology supported on campus that~~ this makes this work in your home office also,
2. you need to have the free Sanako student recorder Lite installed, here is how: Just “Run” the above link.
3. Recommended: in the student recorder, from menu: TBA, set your “default save directory” to the current folder with the student recordings – otherwise you have to change the save as dialogue back to this destination for each file you save.
4. you UPDATE: DO NOT ANYMORE need to disable the voice graph (~~not~~ compatible with voice-insert recording; you can, however show the voice graph again when done recording and reviewing the file)
5. you need to save the student recording, updated with your comments, in the same folder with the same file name as the source (when “saving as” and choosing the name, preferably do not type it, but rather select or copy/paste it. The original file will still be preserved since your version will be saved in a a different format and therefore have a different file extension)
TBA:you can rewind to listen, and re-record to overwrite comments that you want to revise
More training:
1. the voice insert step-by-step training video we made for students.
2. How a teacher can give students aural feedback on oral exams using the Sanako Study 1200 Lite Recorder