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“Clickonce” to download Langlabemailer (BETA)
2013/04/26
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After receiving the response to your request for a download link, click the link in the response to go the download page, and on that page click the button: “Install”.
Next:Install. Or Langlabemailer (table of contents).
Protected: How a teacher can give students aural feedback on oral exams using the Sanako Study 1200 Lite Recorder
2013/04/25
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Testing my Langlabemailer…
2013/04/11
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… to improve the integration of the digital audio lab into the university’s language teaching processes – 1000 emails at a time. 
(Coming soon: same day delivery. More on this project will be available here: https://2013.iallt.org/session/driving-tutorial-call-face-face-classroom-and-what-it-took).
Mysterious Japanese video DVD: What I have tried
2013/04/05
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- Crashes win7 when wmp tries to autoplays it
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Disabled this and tried VLC, but displays as green screen in vlc (no sound):
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Recognized as mpeg 1/2 by my codec appliance, but before recognition is complete, crashes my encoders
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Or does not display -> transcode
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Categories: e-languages, service-is-learning-materials-creation
videos
Cheatsheet for typing phonetic symbols with the IPA Keyboard Layout on Windows 7 – the ultimate training…
2013/03/28
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…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:
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 to resolve “WinAlign export files cannot be migrated because your User ID has not been specified”
2013/03/28
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- Steps to replicate:
- in Winalign window:
- menu:file / export file pair
- dialogue: “export file pair to file”, choose an name and format: text,
- wait for “export”dialogue to disappear;
- in SDL Trados Studio 2009,
- left menu pane: “translation memories”, menu button”:”open translation memories”,dialogue:”menu button: “open document”, choose the source text document, in dialogue:”open document”, dropdown: “target language”,
- dropdown: “target language”, select yours
- dropdown”: add”: “file-based translation memory”
- open dialogue:”file-based translation memory”, select exported text file;
- Error pops up:
- in Winalign window:
- Resolution: follow the instructions in the error dialogue.
- Bonus points for knowing that “translator’s workbench” is a legacy application and accessible only through SDL Trados Studio 2007: open this from the start menu.
- In the left pane, click to open “Translator’s workbench”:
- Give your username:
- Test: on your next try, you will get past the error into upgrade converting your winalign-exported text file into TMX:
Protected: Sanako Study 1200 hangs on “changing control method”?
2013/03/13
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How a teacher can adapt a Sanako teacher-controlled class recording activity for individual student recordings
2013/03/12
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- Pedagogical need:
- A teacher wants her students to record a presentation,
- 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
- offers maximum control, least flexibility: students have to speak their presentation linearly
- if you anticipate presentations of considerably different lengths
- first try asking your students – might be useful to them anyway to realize if theirs turns out to be much shorter than others,
- if students are unsure about the length of their presentation,
- conduct the first recording with the entire class and
- 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
- group your students (grouping step-by-step) into Sessions A-F by incrementing time according to what the student icon bubble shows
- 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
- for each group (one or more up to 6),
- choose from dropdown activity: model imitation recording
- and from dropdown: source: none) with more than one group at a time,
- 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
- and after each group’s allocated time (+ buffer) is up,
- press button:end to end the recording
- after collection of the recordings from students is finished, you can
- press button:replay
, to let each student listen to her recording (linearly, without control), and - press button:free
, to let students freely move back and forth on the timeline) - eventually, press button: clear, to be ready:
- choose from dropdown activity: model imitation recording
- for tries 2 and 3: repeat above steps.
- using Sanako activity: self access:
- provides
- the teacher some control (none over this turning into more of an editing than coherent language practice exercise),
- and students more flexibility (hence requiring prior recording training for students);
- students individually
- record
- move around freely in the file
- replay
- record over prior footage and/or start completely over (menu: File / new)
- press button:envelope to text message the teacher that they are finished and want their (final ) recording to be collected by the teacher
- teacher
- moves signaling students into a group (grouping step-by-step) that is
- dedicated for collecting recordings (TBA:does this not empty their buffer?)
- and button:pc control: locked (= no further or accidental changes)
- 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
- button: end to collect and
- button: clear session to clear the button
- assesses the recordings in the folder that opens with audacity;
- in case of problems, moves students back to the group dedicated to recording
- else lets students leave
- moves signaling students into a group (grouping step-by-step) that is
- provides
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