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Error code 14001 when installing Audacity

2012/04/27 plagwitz 5 comments

Symptom: Audacity installation seems to complete without error, but attempting to start Audacity at the end of the installation process results in an error about bad environment with the above error code.
For your reference: It is has been the missing Visual C++ redistributable installation here in the past on staff computers.
Solution: Download and install the redistributable, then try restarting Audacity: It should start now.

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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.

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2012/03/16 plagwitz Leave a comment

You can combine
1. a Model/Question video, uploaded by the teacher as a video resource
2. with an Imitation/Response video captured by the student.
Cons:

When viewing the teacher upload video models/questions, the student has to alternate between pause/play (which are not even on the same button).
Student does not have to also handle pausing/restarting the video recording, but that may be another con: The student cannot pause her video, so the grader will have to skip over pauses in his recording.

Pros: Looks like a video recording can peacefully coexist with a simultaneous video playback (XP, IE8):

2012/03/16 plagwitz Leave a comment

Are all things Moodle Kaltura on Windows better than on iMacs?
I don’t think so (Windows 7, IE9): Webcamera cannot be activated, hourglass. Looks like the Flash security dialogue does not make it into the foreground.