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WordSmith Tools are once again not licensed

2013/08/28 Leave a comment
  1. StartingWordsmith from the desktop shortcut results in this: image
  2. Didn’t I test and describe last summer  how to fix this?
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, Corpus-linguistics, e-languages, Glitches&Errors, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging, software, Translation Tags: ,

Freely downloadable samples from the IPA Phonetics Handbook

2013/08/21 Leave a comment
  1. This handbook provides audio pronunciation samples (in WAV) for many different languages. While they are more useful in conjunction with the book, they also can be searched by filename (= the pronounced word in English translation).
  2. We make these file accessible in the LRC on the Sanako share (S:\COAS\LCS\LRC\media\TUTOR\phonetics\ipa-phonetics-handbook\). Here are the languages included:.
    1. American-English
    2. Amharic
    3. Arabic
    4. Bulgarian
    5. Cantonese
    6. Catalan
    7. Croatian
    8. Czech
    9. Dutch
    10. French
    11. Galician
    12. German
    13. Hausa
    14. Hebrew
    15. Hindi
    16. Hungarian
    17. Igbo
    18. Irish
    19. Japanese
    20. Korean
    21. Persian
    22. Portuguese
    23. Sindhi
    24. Slovene
    25. Swedish
    26. Thai
    27. Turkish
Categories: Arabic, e-languages, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, learning-materials, Mandarin, Portuguese Tags: ,

Protected: McGraw-Hill Connect Online Textbook Teacher Links

2013/08/20 Enter your password to view comments.

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Categories: audience-is-teachers, documentation, Documents, e-languages, Spanish

Sanako Study Tutor may crash if teacher lacks file share permissions

2013/08/20 Leave a comment
  1. Problem: On start of the Sanako tutor 7 (have not seen this in earlier versions, although I have seen many teachers w/o Sanako share permissions), you may immediately be confronted with this NULLREFERENCEEXCEPTION: CAM00138
  2. presumably f you have this (a teacher w/o permissions to the Sanako share):
  3. CAM00139
  4. CAM00140
  5. Workaround: Somebody with file share permissions log in instead.
  6. Solution: Get permissions set up automatically for all classes, including short term.
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, digital-audio-lab, e-languages, Glitches&Errors, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging Tags: ,

Protected: Why requiring manual configuration of the Sanako by students does not work for us

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Categories: audience-is-administration, audience-is-IT-staff, digital-audio-lab, e-languages, Glitches&Errors, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Presenter-Computer, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging, Student-Computers Tags: ,

LRC hosts help desk for students to register on their McGraw-Hill Connect online textbook website

2013/08/17 Leave a comment

This special Help desk will be sign-posted in the LRC on the day of the events. For now, consult the calendar of the iMacsand Group Room1, 2 (see https://thomasplagwitz.com/2012/11/04/how-to-view-lrc-hoursevents/).Here is the documentation:

Categories: announcements, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-training, textbooks, websites Tags:

Demo of Puntos de partida on the McGraw-Hill Connect online platform for Hybrid Spanish teachers

2013/08/17 Leave a comment
  1. For your review:
  2. Highlights:
    1. Learnsmart: adaptive learning content that asks for and tracks for the teacher and adapts for the student to students metacognitive confidence about her knowledge before testing it
    2. In a flipped classroom setting, highest failure areas in the online learning results can be easily seen by the teacher to adapt the next class meeting.
Categories: assignments, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, grading, Screencasts, service-is-documenting, Spanish, textbooks, training, websites, workshops Tags: , , ,

Example 6: How even a false beginner can work with foreign language Speech recognition on Windows 7 Enterprise

2013/08/14 Leave a comment
  1. Executive summary: Don’t let initial poor speech recognition results discourage your from using this feature. Results will much improve if you go through a few minutes of the built-in voice training for speech recognition. Like in the last 30 seconds of this video.
  2. With the upgrade to Windows 7 Enterprise in the LRC – and the continued availability of high-quality Sanako headphones on the majority of LRC PCs – , we can now offer speech recognition in a number of foreign languages – including French.
  3. This feature can be used for language learning exercises, including dictation, like in this example. How robust is windows 7 speech recognition?
  4. You can expose yourself to some embarrassingly bad French in this screencast – and that is the point. (My French is limited to a mere 2 high school years of 3-hour per week voluntary French studies, more than 30 years ago, no practice since).
  5. The screencast shows how even a (false) beginner can,
    1. 0:00-1:00: from terrible initial results,
    2. 11:45-12:10: considerably improve (not make perfect!) the foreign language (here French) speech recognition on Windows 7,
    3. 1:00-10:40: by going through the built-in voice training.
  6. The LRC computers are “frozen”between reboots, but students still need to train them only once, since they can back up and restore their training data easily.
  8. (This is not proof of the overall validity of the recognition – for that, you are better off watching this screencast with Windows 7 Enterprise speech recognition in German).
Categories: assignments, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, French, Operating-system, Screencasts, Speaking Tags: ,