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Cheatsheet for typing phonetic symbols with the IPA Keyboard Layout on Windows 7 – the ultimate training…

2013/03/28 plagwitz Leave a comment

…using animated .gifs. Slower? Compact: 0.25sec, 0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, 1.5sec, 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec.

This is taken straight from the great documentation of this great Phonetic symbols Windows keyboard layout by SILS international, but needed a bit of massaging to support hands-free lookup via display on one screen of your dual screen system, while you learn or demo the keyboard to the class). Users without dual screen (including students) are better off with the slideshow below in which they can stop the images on any page:

IPA MSKL 1.2

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The IPA MSKLC can produce both regular Roman characters and transcriptions with phonetic symbols by employing certain “dead keys” that can be combined with regular keys. Just and like our default LRC keyboard us-international .

Your first must select the keyboard like so. (Icelandic is suitable since it is not used for other purposes much). In the LRC, you must wait until we upgrade to Windows7.

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How a teacher can adapt a Sanako teacher-controlled class recording activity for individual student recordings

2013/03/12 plagwitz Leave a comment

Pedagogical need:
1. A teacher wants her students to record a presentation,
2. but allow the students to move around freely in their recording afterwards, when evaluating it, and submit the best out of 3 tries:
Technical implementation:

Using Sanako activity:model imitation of differing for multiple groups
1. offers maximum control, least flexibility: students have to speak their presentation linearly
2. if you anticipate presentations of considerably different lengths
  1. first try asking your students – might be useful to them anyway to realize if theirs turns out to be much shorter than others,
  2. if students are unsure about the length of their presentation,
    1. conduct the first recording with the entire class and
    2. have students note what time their recorder time counter is at when they finish, and send you the time as text via the button:envelope
    3. group your students (grouping step-by-step) into Sessions A-F by incrementing time according to what the student icon bubble shows
  3. then differentiate class into as many groups as necessary (if <= the 6 “sessions”A-F Sanako Study 1200 offers) end the recording at a different time for each group
3. for each group (one or more up to 6),
  1. choose from dropdown activity: model imitation recording
    1. and from dropdown: source: none) with more than one group at a time,
    2. and (optionally) for not more than one group at a time (suggest choosing the biggest group for that) from (dropdown: source: file ) the background noise to play
  2. and after each group’s allocated time (+ buffer) is up,
  3. press button:end to end the recording
  4. after collection of the recordings from students is finished, you can
  5. press button:replay , to let each student listen to her recording (linearly, without control), and
  6. press button:free , to let students freely move back and forth on the timeline)
  7. eventually, press button: clear, to be ready:
4. for tries 2 and 3: repeat above steps.
using Sanako activity: self access:
1. provides
  1. the teacher some control (none over this turning into more of an editing than coherent language practice exercise),
  2. and students more flexibility (hence requiring prior recording training for students);
2. students individually
  1. record
  2. move around freely in the file
  3. replay
  4. record over prior footage and/or start completely over (menu: File / new)
  5. press button:envelope to text message the teacher that they are finished and want their (final ) recording to be collected by the teacher
3. teacher
  1. moves signaling students into a group (grouping step-by-step) that is
    1. dedicated for collecting recordings (TBA:does this not empty their buffer?)
    2. and button:pc control: locked (= no further or accidental changes)
  2. once an appropriate (compromise between finished students wanting to leave and teacher not having to collect each recording individually) number of students have been added to this group, presses
    1. button: end to collect and
    2. button: clear session to clear the button
  3. assesses the recordings in the folder that opens with audacity;
    1. in case of problems, moves students back to the group dedicated to recording
    2. else lets students leave

Web-based Greek to Roman characters transliteration using Greeklish

2013/02/28 plagwitz Leave a comment

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 Tags: phonetics, transliterating

How teachers can conduct a 1-on-1 student oral assessment in their office using Sanako Lite Recorder

2013/01/22 plagwitz Leave a comment

If you need to conduct an OPI or other one-on-one oral exam instead of class-size oral exams we offer in the LRC,
1. we have conducted 1-on-1 speaking assessments using the Sanako headsets and Student Recorder in the LRC.
2. However, since this setting does not offer much privacy (and also because it blocks the LRC classroom ), we would recommend conducting such exams in faculty offices. For this scenario, teachers can use:
  1. one of the headsets that can now be checked out by faculty, and in working condition,
  2. the Sanako LITE or standalone recorder – which could not be rolled out by IT on all teacher computers, but I programmed a workaround installer – and is friendlier (for recording and listening/grading) than Audacity. Sanako recently provided a useful guide for one-on-one examinations with the Study Lite recorder here (you do not need a desktop microphone like shown here, it is sufficient to position the headphone appropriately on the desk instead).

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How to record and submit a photo presentation assignment

2013/01/22 plagwitz Leave a comment

A step-by-step explanation how Moodle/PowerPoint allow

a student
1. to create a photo album from their photos (remind them that they need to be able to download their photos onto the LRC computers), we will load this from their computers analogous to this: How to create a visual cue exam file using Insert Photo album in PowerPoint
2. to narrate the photoalbum
  1. In the LRC with 2007: https://thomasplagwitz.com/2013/01/22/how-students-can-record-their-picture-or-photo-presentations-with-powerpoint-2007/
  2. or if they use 2010 outside of the LRC, https://thomasplagwitz.com/2013/01/17/recording-student-picture-presentations-with-powerpoint/
3. To refine their presentation:
  1. Do not edit your audio – not good language learning pedagogy.
  2. Rather redo your entire presentation, paying extra attention to the weaknesses you observed when reflecting on your last recorded attempt . You will learn more foreign language this way than if you learn how to edit digital audio. Before you re-record your narration, clear the existing narration from PowerPoint, or save into a new file to be able to compare the Before/After.
4. to submit: How a student takes a Moodle Single file upload assignment.
a teacher
1. to prepare:How a teacher creates a Moodle Single file upload assignment, with optional attached file
2. to grade (reviewHow a teacher grades a Moodle Single file upload assignment):
  1. Save the Moodle file submission assignment
  2. Double-click the PPSX file to play the file in PowerPoint.
  3. Use the Moodle grade book to grade and provide other feedback.

LRC learning resources Moodle metacourses: Our list

2013/01/18 plagwitz 1 comment

UPDATE: The LRC Metacourses are being rolled over to MOODLE2. Metacourses having only an OldID are currently still unavailable in Moodle2. And the student enrollment needs to be updated manually until the end of add/drop. On the upside, teachers do not need to make course available to students anymore. The LRC can do this (Metacourses for languages saying #Ref are waiting to be rolled over, tell me if you need them)..

The following LRC Moodle metacourses for teaching materials are available to LCS and ELTI (including LRC-Resource with training materials for using language learning technology in and outside of the LRC, as well as for independent study languages).

The naming scheme follows the course abbreviations taught in the departments that the LRC supports:

These courses appear in the Training branch of the Moodle-courses tree-menu on the left (for all study programs you teach in):

The metacourse for a language (or field of study) is accessible to all students studying this language during the term of their study.

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How students can record their picture or photo presentations with PowerPoint 2010

2013/01/17 plagwitz Leave a comment

The screencast shows the necessary steps:
1. inserting a photo album,
2. presenting while recording the presentation with narration
3. saving as a show (.ppsx) – make sure you have ribbon:”Slide show”/ “Play narrations” checked:
to prepare an assignment for a Moodle single-file-upload (How a student takes a Moodle Simple file upload assignment).

Ipatrainer.com community provides free phonetic transcription tables with sounds and exercises

2012/10/11 plagwitz Leave a comment

This is looking good, but …
1. There seem to be some coding issues, I am getting server errors 500 after registering.
2. The site is advertisement-based.
3. There is no content beyond the IPA sound which would put these bare basics in phonetics into language learning context and practice.
Site Contains:
1. tables for teaching your language – complete with phonetic symbols and sound samples
2. and exercises for your students (e.g. Memory games, Identifying characters , places, and sounds.
You can
1. Create your own, after free registration,
2. or assign one of the ones from many other teachers.
  1. Most popular ones are listed here: http://www.ipatrainer.com/user/site/?language=, and if the use numbers are accurate, there must be really some serious IPA learning going on here…
  2. I see no way to browse other tables without having the username of the teacher who created and assigned it.
There is also a phonetic writer.
And a user forum, in its infancy.