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How the LRC supports Second Language Acquisition (all 4 skills) and testing using computers, and provides requisite documentation and training

2012/06/28 plagwitz Leave a comment

Table of contents for 2 screencasts of a presentation, left screen slides/no audio, right screen/speaker audio – best viewed side-by-side.

Time in LRC-report-speaker	Time in LRC-report-slides	Topic	Subtopic
	0:00	Overview of LRC activities
0:00	0:40	SLA reading
0:02	1:10	SLA writing
1:00			high-stakes quiz screencast: http://goo.gl/AaGrK
3:40			Movie caption exercise generation using NLP
5:45	2:35	SLA listening	Text-to-speech Deskbot
7:15	4:00		example of time-stretched audio
10:00	10:10	SLA speaking	Moodle Kaltura for webcam recordings homework assignments
12:30			Sanako oral exams
	15:00		Example of oral exam material
16:40	15:45	Classroom management systems
27:15			Outlook: LRC as proficiency assessment/testing center, outreach/service to high schools
	16:40		Example of oral proficiency exam
28:30			Needed additions: video streaming to students, video recordings from students
30:10		Question period
30:10			LRC media repositories
33:30		Infrastructure work:	Year1:Ghost+imaging
33:35			Year2:LRC calendars (room reservation, equipment circulation, staff timetabling)
34:25			Outlook: things that need to be fixed in LRC calendars
39:25
39:45	19:45	LRC Blog
39:45			Querying tags and categories
45:00			tags, categories, RSS feeds displayed in internet explorer tag display,
55:20			Using tags/categories searches of the LRC blog in training teachers and students
57:25		Q:TOEFL, AP exams and other oral proficiency assessment –
58:45		Webcape placement exams and other written exam in the LRC
59:30		Q:Concurrent exam scheduling	Sanako has no scheduling system to allow a limited number of users to take an exam simultaneously (but it prevents users beyond the licensing seats to use the Sanako, including for exams), Scheduling plug-ins seem to be available for Moodle.
61:40			Outlook: Need more licenses for the Sanako to match the UNCC class size

Students of the Oaklawn Language Academy visited the LRC …

2012/05/03 plagwitz Leave a comment

… and sent us a thick envelope chock-full of these very sweet handwritten thank-you notes.

I have twin nieces their age, so I know that it can take a bit to get them to write these notes (I am looking at you, Miss M…! Smile ).

The little man on the screen they mention, that can talk in tongues is the Microsoft-Deskbot, and the headphones they mention were connected to a Sanako Study 1200 digital audio lab.

I hope we can upgrade all this to Windows 7 this summer, and that the Language Academy will be back next spring to admire it all…