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Protected: McGraw-Hill Connect Online Textbook Teacher Links
2013/08/20
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Categories: audience-is-teachers, documentation, Documents, e-languages, Spanish
Demo of Puntos de partida on the McGraw-Hill Connect online platform for Hybrid Spanish teachers
2013/08/17
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- For your review:
- Highlights:
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Learnsmart: adaptive learning content that asks for and tracks for the teacher and adapts for the student to students metacognitive confidence about her knowledge before testing it
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In a flipped classroom setting, highest failure areas in the online learning results can be easily seen by the teacher to adapt the next class meeting.
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Example 6: How even a false beginner can work with foreign language Speech recognition on Windows 7 Enterprise
2013/08/14
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- Executive summary: Don’t let initial poor speech recognition results discourage your from using this feature. Results will much improve if you go through a few minutes of the built-in voice training for speech recognition. Like in the last 30 seconds of this video.
- With the upgrade to Windows 7 Enterprise in the LRC – and the continued availability of high-quality Sanako headphones on the majority of LRC PCs – , we can now offer speech recognition in a number of foreign languages – including French.
- This feature can be used for language learning exercises, including dictation, like in this example. How robust is windows 7 speech recognition?
- You can expose yourself to some embarrassingly bad French in this screencast – and that is the point. (My French is limited to a mere 2 high school years of 3-hour per week voluntary French studies, more than 30 years ago, no practice since).
- The screencast shows how even a (false) beginner can,
- 0:00-1:00: from terrible initial results,
- 11:45-12:10: considerably improve (not make perfect!) the foreign language (here French) speech recognition on Windows 7,
- 1:00-10:40: by going through the built-in voice training.
- The LRC computers are “frozen”between reboots, but students still need to train them only once, since they can back up and restore their training data easily.
- (This is not proof of the overall validity of the recognition – for that, you are better off watching this screencast with Windows 7 Enterprise speech recognition in German).
Workaround for Sanako study 1200 tutor v7 window limitations
2013/08/06
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- Problem: Window maximizes only to size of,and location defaults to, primary screen. This is now on windows7.
- Workaround: make the screen whose size you desire the primary (and live with the side effects).
- Downside:
- Screencast recordings of instruction won’t work: Community Clips can only record the primary screen, which is not the screen displayed to students during regular teaching. Windows Media Encoder does not work with our non-standard dual screen configuration on Windows7.
ELRA language corpora available in the LRC for research
2013/07/05
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The LRC has availed itself of a free research distribution of 55GB collection of language corpora from http://www.elra.info/, the European Language Resources Association. This “big data” should be of interest for the translation program, as well as the language learning programs, since it enables corpus linguistic approaches to language learning and automated learning material production based on natural language processing.
Here is an overview of the materials included:
A list of files included can be found here:
Categories: corpora, learning-materials, Spreadsheets, Translation
elda, elra, nlp
Summary of the LRC main classroom use in year 2012/3
2013/06/22
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