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More Moodle Kaltura webcam recording homework assignments: Italian
2012/03/02
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Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-languages, learning-usage-samples, lms, marketing, multimedia-recording, Speaking
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More Moodle Kaltura webcam recording homework assignments: German
2012/03/02
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Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-languages, German, learning-usage-samples, lms, marketing, multimedia-recording, Speaking
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Protected: Mock exam for Spanish combines various learning technologies in the LRC
2012/03/01
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Categories: audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, e-languages, iMacs, learning-usage-samples, Listening, Listening-Stations, lms, LRCRoomCoed434, marketing, multimedia-recording, Photos, Practice&Demos, Reading, service-is-assessing, Spanish, Speaking, Vocabulary
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I2speak.com: Web-based IPA Keyboard
2012/02/23
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The Sciweavers Team announces http://www.i2speak.com: “an online Smart IPA Keyboard that lets you quickly type IPA phonetics without the need to memorize any symbol code. For every Roman character you type, a popup menu displays a group of phonetic symbols that share the same sound or shape beneath typed character. Use arrow keys to select the proper symbol then hit the Enter button. I2Speak also supports the following features:
1. The Sampa English Keyboard lets you type English phonetics using Roman characters according to SAMPA (Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet) rules.
2. The IPA English Keyboard provides you with a full English phonetics keyboard. Press the symbol of interest using a suitable input device.
3. You can type directly on your physical keyboard or on the virtual on-screen keyboard using a suitable input device such as mouse or touch screen device.
4. You can change the keyboard symbols by selecting another layout from the list box located above the virtual keyboard.
5. For every keyboard layout, more symbols can be displayed by pressing the CAPS Lock.
6. When you hover the mouse over an English phonetic button, a slick tooltip will show some example English words.
7. You can save typed phonetics as an MS-Word file by clicking the Save button, copy them to clipboard using the Copy button, or post them to Twitter, Facebook, etc. by clicking the desired button.”
Categories: announcements, Arabic, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek (modern), Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, service-is-evaluating-learning-tools, Spanish, Speaking, Swahili, websites, Yoruba
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Protected: Moodle-Kaltura webcam recording assignment results
2012/02/20
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Categories: assessments, assignments, audience-is-teachers, Beginner, e-languages, German, iMacs, lms, multimedia-recording, Practice&Demos, Speaking, Videos
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How to use Google translate for writing Cyrillic letters with a western keyboard, pronunciation help, and text-to-speech
2012/02/16
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Go to Google translate and do like so. Useful for learning, as well as typing when teaching.
How a student uses the Sanako Recorder Voice Insert mode for Moodle comparative recording exercises
2012/01/25
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- to load a file
- from Moodle:
- Find your assignment with the model audio file, presumably in your Moodle course.
- download the model audio file
- open the Sanako Student Recorder (introduction).
- go to menu: file / open, and open the file you downloaded
- from student recorder playlist: double-click the file.
- from Moodle:
- enable voice insert:
- To activate voice insert (which is a toggle that changes the behavior of the other buttons)
- either go to tools/ voice insert mode
- or click the voice insert button
(darker shade of brown = OFF; tooltip should say “Toggle Voice Insert OFF”, meaning: it is ON now)
- To activate voice insert (which is a toggle that changes the behavior of the other buttons)
- press the green play button to listen until you reach the point (your teacher may have inserted a pause or aural cue) where you can repeat or respond.
- Then click the red speak-button
to repeat after/respond to the source/teacher - When you are done repeating/responding, press the green play-button.
- At the end, press the blue stop-button.
- Rewind and review your recording (e.g. compare your pronunciation with the teacher’s model).
- When done, click file / save as and save only your, the student track, as mp3 or wma.
- Additional notes:
- TBA: you can overwrite your pronunciation where you deem necessary.
- Fixed in Sanako 7:
you cannot show the voice graph when in Voice insert mode – both are incompatible. - To see in action how to record with voice insert and save the student track, view
- The previous is just a step-by-step for our environment based on the Sanako Study 1200 documentation which follows here:
How a teacher best adds cues and pauses to an mp3-recording with Audacity to create student language exercises
2012/01/25
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- The first screencast example uses insert tones and a gut amount of pause, for an interpreting exercise, into an authentic German political speech
- 1:00 search for a break (button: play/stop – pause prevents edits)
- 1:05 move the cursor to the break (mouse left-click on timeline)
- 1:20 insert a pause (menu:Generate / Silence )
- 1:25 zoom in (button:magnifying glass, CTRL + mouse scroll wheel)
- 1:45 generate a tone (menu:Generate / Noise), change the duration
- 2:10 do not replace the selection
- 2:20 use undo, just like in MS-word and other programs
- 2:30 move the cursor to the start of the selection (mouse left-click on timeline)
- 2:40 generate a tone (menu:Generate / Noise)
- don’t forget to review results before distributing to students
- the second screencast example, of post-editing a questions/response exercise in ESL, takes the amount of pause inserted from the recorded teacher instruction for the student, and uses copy/paste to speed things up even more.
- You can also only insert tones and not pauses, as in the 3rd screencast, and allow the students flexible pause lengths, if you can rely on the Sanako Student recorder Voice insert. Or if you must, let students use audacity for recording also, and have them learn how to move the recording cursor around manually, and throw away the source track.
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