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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).

Categories: announcements, Arabic, assessments, audience-is-teachers, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek (modern), Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Listening, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, service-is-applying-learning-tools, Spanish, Speaking Tags: sanako-study-1200, student.exe

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.

Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, English, erepository, Farsi, French, German, Greek (ancient), Greek (modern), Italian, Japanese, Latin, learning-materials, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Translation Tags: file-management, links, lists, metacourses, moodle

LRC online language learning materials: the list

2013/01/17 plagwitz 2 comments

Below you can find a scrollable and searchable list of LRC learning materials in Moodle metacourses (of which you can find a standalone list here).

You can filter this LRC Excel Web App using the column header dropdowns. You can click on the language in the leftmost column to go to your language’s metacourses and in its folders easily locate the resources in the right columns.

Languages that do not have their dedicated metacourse are LCTL/independent study and can be found in the LRC metacourse.

Note that the material you are looking for are not necessarily in this list, as there are other containers for language learning materials used on campus, including individual Moodle courses, textbook publisher applications, often based on Quia, like for Hybrid 1st-year Spanish, and the library ereserves.

Larger view here. UNCC-LRC Editors click here.

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.