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How to mix SANAKO- recorded individual students’ audio tracks together
- If the students’ audio tracks are not already time-aligned, first use audacity: "time shift tool" to align individual tracks
(with this tool selected, you can move individual tracks back and forth, to the left or right). - If/ When they are time-aligned, use audacity/ menu: tracks/"stereo track to mono".
How to view LRC hours&events ….
Here are some direct links to live international TV
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(new & untested) ARD live stream, or (likely more useful)ARD Mediathek |
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You can probably tell from the language selection where this list is from 
: Many thanks, University of Minnesota Language Center, I only had to remove your scheduling information which we have no use for…
How to type accented characters with US International keyboard – the ultimate training summary….
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.How teachers restrict students to allowed web pages with Sanako Study 1200 web browsing (strict) activity–the ultimate training summary
…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:0.50sec,0.75sec,1sec,2sec,3sec,4sec,5sec,6sec,7sec,8sec,9sec,10sec
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Condensed (instructions only) for recap: 100cs, 200cs, 300cs, 400cs, 500cs, 600cs, 700cs, 800cs, 900cs, 1000cs. And if you need to pause:
LRC teacher screen new and improved
The above screenshot (taken from a screencast) does not do the new screen justice: Teachers can actually read all the ongoing student work, and, with two clicks, intervene surgically, where necessary.
On the right screen of the teacher PC in the main LRC classroom, we went from WXGA to HD1080, gaining almost 60% more screen real estate (=(1920*1080)/(1280*1024)), a crucial improvement for displaying all the information the Sanako Study 1200 provides the teacher with.
Or in more graphical terms (thanks to Wikipedia), we went from 2nd lower left to 3rd upper right:
To fit the actual classroom layout into the display, we would however need the bottom lower right resolution (WQXGA). We still have to split the classroom you see into 2 halves and tilt those by 90 degrees clockwise to fit them onto the right teacher screen.
Since our left screen is still the original 1024*768 (and will be until not only the screen, but the switch and projector get upgraded), you have to work (= move your mouse pointer) around the “wall” formed by the black block in the lower right of this screenshot.
A few tools for speech transcription
- For teacher (research, learning material production etc.) transcription tasks (as opposed to language learner tasks, for which we can use the Sanako),
- if you have
- no switch (foot pedal) hardware (which usually comes with its own software), :
- no budget (a professional, but not free tool described here earlier is Swift-TX)
- available freeware tools that can speed up your transcriptions tasks are:
- Simple enough, but functional for the occasional transcription task: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ebreck/code/sscriber/.
- More oriented towards research and large-scale (corpora) transcriptions:
How to retrieve students’ recordings under student login name if you saved under position or computer name in Sanako Study 1200
- Why? Most (though not all) times you will find it easier to manage student files if their names contain the student login names
- How?
- Change the classroom layout naming scheme from menu:”Tools”/ “Admin”/ “Change student names to” / “Student login name”
and - collect or repeat a prior collection of the student recorder buffer by using the activity pane: files icon
(this requires that you have not yet used activity pane:button:”clear session”).
- Change the classroom layout naming scheme from menu:”Tools”/ “Admin”/ “Change student names to” / “Student login name”
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Other ways to find help
If you cannot find it here, look there: 5,500 Language-Learning Links and Programs for learning or teaching 150 languages
Shortcuts:Our Lists, Our Maps, LRC Staff Moodle Site,LRC Project Moodle Site, 49erexpress, UNCC Moodle, Student Recordings: s:claslcslrcsanakostudent
Learning usage samples: Sanako oral exam, Kaltura webcam presentation, Dictation with speech recognition, Sanako written exam, Chinese and Japanese interactive stroke-order practice
Test the Sanako Installer, Webbrowser Popup Konfigurator for XP, or Windows7, faster LRC TeacherPC Log-in Let MS facilitate diacritics writing by installing for you US-International keyboard layout
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