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Categories: Absolute-Beginner, Advanced, Arabic, assessments, audience-is-teachers, Beginner, classroom-management-system, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek (modern), Hindi, Intermediate, Italian, Japanese, Korean, lms, Mandarin, multimedia-recording, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Screencasts, service-is-assessing, service-is-evaluating-learning-tools, service-is-learning-materials-creation, service-is-training, Slideshows, Spanish, Speaking, Swahili, workshops, Yoruba Tags: , , ,

Basic software to troubleshoot end-user videos

2012/04/05 Leave a comment
  1. Having problems with (source – target) end-user video compatibility issues? If you just need to “git r done”, the following software has helped us for years nip those in the bud and overcome the limited built-in support for video display and troubleshooting on the MS-Windows and Mac OS X platform:
    1. VideoLan, an open-source project that amounts to much more than a player which out of the box understands most codecs, going strongly into version 2 recently. Download for Windows or Mac OS X.
    2. Still won’t play? Diagnose codec and other information from video files, so that you do not need to set your hopes into the download of dubious codec packs.
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Linguee dictionary lookup based on parallel corpora

2012/04/04 2 comments
  1. Support for more languages is planned (Chinese, Japanese):linguee parallel corpora dictionary lookup
  2. linguee parallel corpora dictionary lookup1
  3. The interesting approach based on parallel corpora provides a wealth of empirical data, albeit a bit raw  and of varying quality, e.g.:
  4. linguee parallel corpora dictionary lookup griff in die wundertüte
Categories: Absolute-Beginner, Advanced, Beginner, Dictionaries, e-languages, English, French, German, Intermediate, Portuguese, service-is-evaluating-learning-tools, Spanish, Translation, websites Tags:

Find open access research on teaching modern foreign languages with Yazik Open

2012/03/28 2 comments

An inititative of an expert from the UK LLAS,  Yazik Open has the potential to become a welcome addition to our SLA research search options, especially if you do not want to run into a pay wall after finding an interesting abstract.

The currently sole contributor seems to be admin – same problem I had when I started a language learning resource links database in 1998, when will this change?

The keyword list looks somewhat rudimentary – when I worked with LLAS on a language learning resource metadata schema, complexity led to a grinding halt.

So the need to bring some of the advances in technologically fostered collaboration and information exchange to domain-specific fields like SLA certainly remains to be felt here.

Categories: all-languages, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, research, second-language-acquisition, service-is-library, websites Tags: ,

Eva English Word Lookup against Wordnet

2012/03/22 Leave a comment
  1. Eva Word Lookup – not listed under the extensions, but run against Wordnet, the lexical database for English – enables you to study your English words in depth. This lookup gives you information organized by the following aspects of your word, linked from  an overview of each word type your search term can belong  to:
    1. the coordinate terms (sisters)
    2. the derived forms
    3. the synonyms/hypernyms (ordered by estimated frequency)
    4. the hyponyms (troponyms for verbs)
    5. the holonyms, for nouns
    6. the meronyms, for nouns
    7. sample sentences, for verbs
  2. Below is what results look like for example search term “design”: WordNet 3.0 Vocabulary Helper- design_1332435445059
Categories: Advanced, audience-is-students, Beginner, Dictionaries, documentation, e-languages, English, Intermediate, service-is-evaluating-learning-tools, websites Tags: ,

How a teacher uploads a video resource to Moodle using Kaltura

2012/03/20 Leave a comment
  1. Moodle Kaltura facilitates making segments of video (created from e.g. source DVD with the video editor of your choice) available for film studies classes, within the bounds of Fair Use and the Teach Act, since it makes video 
    1. easily available (streamed to anywhere where Adobe-Flash runs),
    2. but only to those who have an account in the Moodle installation and are registered for the course
  2. In addition, access to the video segments can be restricted further (by choosing from the management options that Moodle affords),
      1. only to the teacher, for display during face-to-face teaching)
      2. only during a time window, for timed assignments.
  3. Here is a (somewhat longwinded, but authentic) demonstration of how to make a Kaltura video resource available through a Moodle course.
    1. The demonstration includes the server-side encoding which happens only once during teacher upload – you do not have to wait for it to finish, just if you want to check immediately, like I do on the example whether your upload went through.
Categories: documentation, e-learning, Film-studies, lms, Screencasts, service-is-evaluating-learning-tools Tags: , , ,

Moodle Kaltura teacher and student video uploads combined

2012/03/16 Leave a comment
  1. 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.
    3. kaltura-teacher-upload-student-upload-combined
  2. Cons:
    1. When viewing the teacher upload video models/questions, the student has to alternate between pause/play (which are not even on the same button).
    2. 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.
  3. Pros: Looks like a video recording can peacefully coexist with a  simultaneous video playback (XP, IE8):  kaltura-teacher-upload-student-upload-combinedc
Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, Listening, lms, multimedia-recording, service-is-evaluating-learning-tools, Speaking Tags: ,

Moodle streaming video recording assignment glitch 9

2012/03/16 Leave a comment
  1. Are all things Moodle Kaltura on Windows better than on iMacs?
  2. 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.
  3. kaltura-doesnot-see-hoursglass-cursor-windows7-ie9
Categories: assignments, audience-is-IT-staff, documentation, e-learning, Glitches&Errors, lms, multimedia-recording, service-is-evaluating-learning-tools Tags: , ,