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How a teacher can use Sanako voice insert to easily add spoken comments to students’ Sanako oral proficiency exams- step–by step
2012/11/19
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- Requirements:
- you need access to the network share to open/save student recordings (this works in your office;
I do not know whether there is technology supported on campus thatthis makes this work in your home office also, - you need to have the free Sanako student recorder Lite installed, here is how: Just “Run” the above link.
- Recommended: in the student recorder, from menu: TBA, set your “default save directory” to the current folder with the student recordings – otherwise you have to change the save as dialogue back to this destination for each file you save.
- you UPDATE: DO NOT ANYMORE need to disable the voice graph (
notcompatible with voice-insert recording; you can, however show the voice graph again when done recording and reviewing the file) - you need to save the student recording, updated with your comments, in the same folder with the same file name as the source (when “saving as” and choosing the name, preferably do not type it, but rather select or copy/paste it. The original file will still be preserved since your version will be saved in a a different format and therefore have a different file extension)
- you need access to the network share to open/save student recordings (this works in your office;
- TBA:you can rewind to listen, and re-record to overwrite comments that you want to revise
- More training:
Protected: Update: obsolete, our faculty simply run http://goo.gl/e0ljX instead of needing to know about: Installation options to choose for installing the free “lite” Sanako student recorder….
2012/11/19
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Sanako Light Recorder insert recording has no teacher track audio, but voice graph?
2012/11/19
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- UPDATE: We reinstalled and this time made sure we restarted the system, and voice-insert is working fine now.
- We are trying to introduce having teachers using the Sanako voice-insert feature to issue spoken feedback into student assessment recordings, since the Sanako Recorder makes voice-insert as easy as
- the (repeated) click of red “speak” button
- and a “save as” (default format MFF preferred).
- On a teacher computer, we recorded and saved as
- either MFF (fast for the teacher to save; we were hoping to have the students download the free Sanako light recorder to be able to play this format;
- or WMA.
- We tested playing back, and hear the student original audio recording, but could not hear the teacher insertion, no matter whether we tried
- in the Sanako light recorder
- or in Windows Media Player.
- Because of the proprietary formats, it is a bit difficult to troubleshoot this. Audacity won’t open either audio format.
- In the Sanako light recorder, we can see the audio inserted in the 2nd track (lower) in the voice graph:
- Is this a licensing restriction? No, even the free light recorder can do this. See here for the installation options to choose when running the studentrecorder.exe on the teacher computer.
- Investigating… Update:
- Must be demonstration effect, as voice insert works fine on my office computer, as expected and it had before.
- Will try the usual suspects when getting my hands on this computer again (refresh, restart, reinstall, replace hardware…)…
Protected: Report on LRC classroom usage for language classes in Fall 2012
2012/11/19
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Protected: Our assessment results after 1.5 years with Sanako Study 1200
2012/11/09
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Announcing new MS-Word templates for writing assignments during face-to-face-classes in the LRC
2012/11/08
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- Benefits
- MS-Word is technology that has become “transparent”for most users:
- Have teachers focus on assignment pedagogy, not authoring technology.
- Have students focus on the target language, not authoring technology.
- Document is protected (for restricting formatting to predefined Word-styles):
- Have students focus on form or content, but not on distracting formatting issues.
- Styles are designed to facilitate teacher monitoring students’ work using Sanako screensharing, like so:
- Take advantage of MS-Office Proofing tools (templates are preset for your target language).
- Take advantage of easy assignment file management with Sanako homework activity.
- Take advantage of internet lookup process, especially pedagogical if you combine with Sanako controlled-web-browsing activity
- MS-Word is technology that has become “transparent”for most users:
- Requirements:
- Teacher
- The easiest is to save the writing template for your language in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033 (or if your run 32-bit MS-Word on a 64-bit Windows, C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033)
- Then base your writing assignment document on the template (e.g. by double-clicking the template in the folder you saved it to).
- Then save your writing assignment to your class material folder on the Sanako network share (from the office or in the LRC).
- In class, launch the Sanako homework activity.
- Student: none other than downloading and submitting the Sanako homework.
- Teacher
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