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Scraping RSS of online actualités for language learning materials production
2013/03/24
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- The capability of RSS-news feed integration of foreign language news may be standard now in most LMS, but was not in 2002 (not even having an LMS was standard, I had to build my own while it took the university a few more years to adopt Blackboard as I had recommended in 2000):
- But RSS-feed display is skin-deep and, even in extensive-reading pedagogies, not sufficient for integration into teaching and learning which requires more post-processing.
- At a recent Digital Humanities Unconference, I was asked how I had “scraped” (RSS-scraping was chosen since it easier than screen scraping, for RSS is devoid of most markup, as long as it validates) into a SQL-server database. Here are some code-snippets to get you
- from the web
- into the database:
- The scraped plain text in the database can form the foundation for post-processing for SLA-purposes, see e.g. glossing for reading comprehension facilitation or question generation with the trpQuizConverter for
- from the web
Categories: Reading, service-is-learning-materials-creation, service-is-programming
2003, c#, news, rss, SQL, vs.net
Web-based Greek to Roman characters transliteration using Greeklish
2013/02/28
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http://speech.ilsp.gr/greeklish/, 255 characters max. Or 5000 max at http://services.innoetics.com/greeklish/:
Categories: audience-is-students, Greek (modern), Reading, Speaking, websites, Writing
phonetics, transliterating
The big LRC SANAKO “How do I…?”
2012/12/05
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(Work in progress).
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Categories: all-languages, animated-GIFs, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, digital-audio-lab, documentation, e-languages, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, learning-usage-samples, Listening, LRCRoomCoed434, Presenter-Computer, Reading, recording-software, Screencasts, screenshot-albums, service-is-documenting, service-is-training, Speaking, Student-Computers, training, Writing
sanako-study-1200
Fall 2012 Faculty Workshop II: Clinic on creating teaching materials for use with the Sanako
2012/11/22
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- (Being planned and scheduled, therefore this post is a work in progress, please stay tuned: ).
- As a continuation (and practical application ) of our previous Intermediate Sanako Teaching Techniques Workshop (and a repetition of our Learning material creation Clinic from the summer), we will create learning materials.
- Bring some ideas and materials. The Sanako and entire LRC infrastructure aims to lower the technical authoring requirements.
- We can record remotely, all authoring teachers at the same time, your source (model/question material) which you will be able to distribute as easily (“ loop induction”) from the Sanako teacher station. Bring some questions your students should be able to respond to in L2, and be prepared to read some text that you want them to repeat, for pronunciation practive
- We can author hand-outs for so-called “homework” (actually reading and writing, with supervision and collection by the teacher as easy as the handout): It just takes opening one of our customized LRC MS-Word templates. I will hand out (more loop induction) “homework” files to aid your work. Bring some texts and essay writing tasks
- PowerPoint exam files with visual cues: bring some ideas for vocabulary quizzes.
Categories: announcements, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, documentation, e-languages, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, learning-usage-samples, Listening, LRCRoomCoed434, Reading, service-is-learning-materials-creation, Speaking, workshops, Writing
MS-Word, sanako-study-1200, templates
How a teachers gives files not meant for writing to students with Sanako Study 1200 Playlist –the ultimate training summary…
2012/10/16
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…using animated .gifs. Slower? Compact: 0.25sec,0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, 1.5sec, 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec. Or including unmarked frames: 0.25sec, 0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, 1.5sec, 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec. 1sec
Or proceed manually:
Categories: animated-GIFs, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, Reading, Speaking
playlist, sanako-study-1200
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