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Blended Learning Templates for the e-Learning Center. Presentation EUROCALL 2007
2007/08/27
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MS-Office Templates for the computerized Foreign Language Classroom. LLAS-sponsored Workshop2Go.
2007/07/31
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An LLAS-sponsored workshop held at Aston University in Birmingham and University of Nottingham. This is a raw unedited screencast of the former from the presenter screen (sorry, the video of demonstration screencasts played during this screencast do not get recorded due to hardware acceleration – I’ll insert them if I get around to cut this screencast).
MS Project training notes
2006/12/15
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- Course is about setting up a project, not tracking (but beginnings will be covered)
- file menu
- save as: e.g. webpage
- edit
- undo: only 1 undo level
- tasks
- split
- view
- calendar
- :base calendar: tools / options
- tools / change calendar [how does this relate?]
- these are company holidays
- can it load holidays like outlook – yes, from project central server
- attach the calendar to the project: project / project information
- many projects are built from finish date, but that leaves no slack time
- tasks pane
- used only with project central server?
- tool bars
- standard
- format
- ask pane
- project: quicker ways than that
- insert subtasks
- simply press insert key to insert rows
- 0 duration = milestone (can also have a milestone with a duration)
- constraints
- difference between a deadline and a constraint: deadline is less important
- review
- start
- project start date: menu / project:
- calendars:
- base calendar = tools / options / calendar
- project calendar = tools / change working time / new
- assign / attach that project calendar to the project: menu: project: project information
- show holidays on Gantt chart: context menu: Gantt chart: nonworking time (option: in front of the taskbars: interrupts the taskbars)
- recurring tasks: menu: insert: recurring task
- set duration: d = day, m = minute, mo = month, w = week
- creating link relation ships
- visually by dragging tasks onto each other in the Gantt chart
- writing in field predecessors (sf is default, s=stat, f=finish, relation ship), -lag and +lead time
- constraints and deadlines
- resources
- types
- WORK: REUSABLE
- MATERIAL: CONSUMABLE
- groups
- teams
- internal or external
- suppliers
- max units
- e.g. FULL TIME OR HALF TIME PERSON
- types
- start
- last hour
- resources – critical (overrun) tasks
- reallocating resources to reduce slack and slippage
- baseline
- set: menu: tools / tracking / baseline
- in the Gantt chart, the blackline is the baseline
- tracking
- recommended to always display the tracking toolbar
- reports
- menu: view / reports
- resources – critical (overrun) tasks
- Outlook: level 2 training
- tracking
- split task
- update task
- customization (views, reports, filters)
- master projects
- resource pools
- tracking
Using home-brew NLP regular expressions to automate question generation for learning material creation
2006/05/24
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- The trpQuizGenerator, from which the screenshots below are taken,
- is an attempt to facilitate, speed up, automate question generation for foreign language learning by collecting a regular expressions, reflecting typical patterns that cause difficulties for language learners in a number of L2 – inspired by common 1st and 2nd year textbooks:

- German: differentiation between Dative and Accusative case personal pronouns
- Italian: contraction of article and preposition
- Spanish: demonstrative pronouns.
- Some more rather arbitrary, but easily implemementable examples for ESL:
- Numbers: ―Much/many‖ dichotomy
- which/who‖ relative pronoun dichotomy: Difficult for German students of English which has no such
dichotomy for innate beings/things, but whose (antiquated) relative pronoun ―Welch‖ as a false friend
of which tends to lead to a wrong preference of ―which‖ to ―who‖ by German speakers. - Sub clauses/tenses: if clauses up to period/comma, giving the number of words as hints. Would
require a delegate.
- Regular expressions in .Net have a number of advanced features that makes the platform a good choice for this enterprise:

- The resulting texts can be e.g. easily delivered as formative assessment exercises to students using trpQuiz.dot.
- is an attempt to facilitate, speed up, automate question generation for foreign language learning by collecting a regular expressions, reflecting typical patterns that cause difficulties for language learners in a number of L2 – inspired by common 1st and 2nd year textbooks:
- Update:
- In a much more recent approach to the same automation problem, I am trying to repurpose well-established existing NLP-platforms for question generation.
- However, compared with the above customized approach, to transform the built-in, not SLA-specific NLP recognition I have found so far taking not only much more work for reformatting for delivery, but also more creativity, or willingness to put up with limitations when it comes to homing in on typical learner problems.
Categories: English, German, Italian, service-is-learning-materials-creation, service-is-programming, Spanish
c#, DkPro, nlp, regular-expressions, trpQuiz


