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How a teacher can use Sanako voice insert to easily add spoken comments to students’ Sanako oral proficiency exams

2012/04/25 Leave a comment
  1. All other things equal (given a limited amount of time), teachers can provide more and better corrective feedback on student oral proficiency recordings if, during their grading, they could easily insert their own oral comments into the students’ recordings (delivered as MP3 files to teachers’ desktops after Sanako oral exams).
  2. Both the Sanako Tutor and Student Player have a voice insert mode that is much easier and quicker to use than (albeit not free as) editing the student audio in Audacity (which we still recommend for bare-bone viewing/listening because of Audacity’s capability of loading and displaying multiple tracks simultaneously).
  3. Fortunately, Sanako tutor/student player are available on the teacher/student station PCs in the LRC (the latter’s insert function is available when the PC connected to the running Sanako Tutor on the teacher station).
  4. How easy and fast is it to use this? As you can see in this demo screencast on how to use Sanako voice insert to add spoken comments into your students’ Sanako oral exams, voice insert only requires:
    1.  a click on the voice insert button in the center, whenever a user wants to speak during listening,
    2. and, from the top left menu, a “file”/ “save as” at the end.
  5. In a next step – not only during the grading process –, how easy is it to distribute student recordings made with Sanako to students? That is TBA:a different story.
Categories: audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, e-languages, grading, multimedia-recording, Presenter-Computer, Screencasts, service-is-assessing, Speaking, Student-Computers Tags: , , ,

Protected: Spring 2012 Faculty Workshop I: How to ease your end-of-term oral assessment burden with the help of the LRC Moodle Kaltura and Sanako Study 1200 oral assessments

2012/04/06 Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: Mock exam for Spanish combines various learning technologies in the LRC

2012/03/01 Enter your password to view comments.

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UNCC LCS Language Placement Exam Information

2012/01/11 Leave a comment
  1. Short URL of this page for over the phone inquiries: http://goo.gl/ezQLu.
  2. The dates for the language placement exam are listed
    1. on the LCS department webpage. If you have trouble locating this page, use this canned Google search “placement exam site:uncc.edu”;
    2. on the calendar of the LRC main classroom (where the exam is held).
  3. The requirements, limitations and step-by-step procedure off the exam are explained here: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/uncc-lrc-language-placement-test-cape-online-placement-exam-step-by-step/
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Digital videos on network share

2009/02/24 Leave a comment
  • interpreting mock conference speech videos are now available in an improved format
    • small file size -> portable: videos compressed to the equivalent of 360mb/hr, which makes them easily accessible
      • wherever you can access the local network (classrooms, your office, library: I uploaded all 6 videos in 2 minutes)
      • or copy to a USB stick to take home (or, in the future, go into an Weblearn e-repository)
    • widely compatible:
    • searchable teaching material eRepository (poor man’s version):
      • filename of video contains date, speaker, language
      • catalogue of videos in the spreadsheet online_resources.xls
        • students can read,
        • instructors [if you do not have access, request it from ictservicesdesk for \\lgu.ac.uk\lgu$\multimedia%20student) can write (in green cells, to provide “metadata” to students for searching: topic, exercise types, difficulty rating), or else request write permission  from x4444
        • catalogue layout is subject to review. 17/04/2009: I updated, the metadata columns, following the example of SIMON, the “Shared Interpreting Materials Online” Database that ETI is developing:
        • title
          speaker
          date
          venue
          modality
          language( combination)
          (progression) level
          (particular) skill (trained)
    • have your students access the videos through the blog link here.
  • we could also collect recorded satellite tv in this form (see Spanish video sample from TVE in spreadsheet online_resources.xls – and probably should, especially if you want flexibility in adapting the materials pedagogically and reusing them -, both
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