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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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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).

Pictolang, another flashcard site for vocabulary learning

2012/12/05 plagwitz Leave a comment

Distinguishing mark: Pictolang is based on the Culturally authentic Picture Lexicon. Here is an overview of the currently available languages and imagery:

Language	Region	# Images
German		2631
Mandarin	China	2336
ESL	North America	2074
Russian		1420
French	France	1231
Spanish	Southern Cone	1022
Spanish	Mexico	1000
Spanish	Central America & Caribbean	872
Spanish	Peninsular	579
Arabic		287
Special Collections		151
Ukrainian		139
Japanese		106
French	Canada	47
Arabic	Oman	11

You can focus vocabulary your study on specific topics, which will likely integrate it better with your core textbook material (often divided into topical chapters).
Suitable for self-study, the use of CAPL makes this an especially interesting tool for preparing work/study/travel abroad. It also allows for playing a classroom flashcard game in language culture and area studies, where the teacher can provide context and background information in the images from the target culture.
Example o the Word Match Game right answer feedback:
Wrong answer feedback:

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Russ1201 genitive chart

2012/11/28 plagwitz Leave a comment

Categories: Grammars, Russian

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.