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Spring 2012 Faculty Workshop II: Oral Proficiency testing with Audacity/Sanako
2012/04/30
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- View screens (best viewed side by side, but note that left and right screen are not synchronized):
- for full slide show (note the included short links for convenient further reading), left screen
- for Sanako interface and full audio track, right screen
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- for full slide show (note the included short links for convenient further reading), left screen
- Table of contents:
- Overview of a Sanako Oral Exam
- Examples of Exam teachers’ exam question recordings
- Example of a Sanako Exam
- Loop induction
- creating an exam question recording
- by taking a Sanako exam as a student
- Step-by-Step of administering a Sanako oral exam
- Grading Sanako oral exam student files
- Sanako voice insert for
- facilitating recording oral assignments for student without hard-coded pauses
- commenting on student responses during grading
- Sanako voice insert for
- Sanako authoring tool for providing visual on top of aural cues to students
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Error code 14001 when installing Audacity
2012/04/27
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- Symptom: Audacity installation seems to complete without error, but attempting to start Audacity at the end of the installation process results in an error about bad environment with the above error code.
- For your reference: It is has been the missing Visual C++ redistributable installation here in the past on staff computers.
- Solution: Download and install the redistributable, then try restarting Audacity: It should start now.
How a teacher can use Sanako voice insert to easily add spoken comments to students’ Sanako oral proficiency exams
2012/04/25
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- All other things equal (given a limited amount of time), teachers can provide more and better corrective feedback on student oral proficiency recordings if, during their grading, they could easily insert their own oral comments into the students’ recordings (delivered as MP3 files to teachers’ desktops after Sanako oral exams).
- Both the Sanako Tutor and Student Player have a voice insert mode that is much easier and quicker to use than (albeit not free as) editing the student audio in Audacity (which we still recommend for bare-bone viewing/listening because of Audacity’s capability of loading and displaying multiple tracks simultaneously).
- Fortunately, Sanako tutor/student player are available on the teacher/student station PCs in the LRC (the latter’s insert function is available when the PC connected to the running Sanako Tutor on the teacher station).
- How easy and fast is it to use this? As you can see in this demo screencast on how to use Sanako voice insert to add spoken comments into your students’ Sanako oral exams
, voice insert only requires: - a click on the voice insert button in the center, whenever a user wants to speak during listening,
- and, from the top left menu, a “file”/ “save as” at the end.
- In a next step – not only during the grading process –, how easy is it to distribute student recordings made with Sanako to students? That is TBA:a different story.
LRC Workshop Demand Survey Results
2012/04/24
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7 responded, 1 commented. OP=Oral Proficiency.
Categories: audience-is-teachers, Charts, e-infrastructure, e-languages, e-learning, Media, Polls, Visualizations, workshops
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Sanako Study 1200 controlled web browsing–strict policy
2012/04/18
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80-seconds screencast showing how a teacher can set up a student activity where students are only allowed to access on web site. - In this example, the website is a common dictionary: http://www.dict.cc which the student will be allowed to access during an exam (in lieu of a paper dictionary policy).
- Never mind that the voiceover is partially in German – the video should be self-explanatory. If not, here is a written step-by-step on Sanako controlled webbrowsing.
Full lifecycle for authoring and collecting a poll in surveyshare. A walk-through
2012/04/13
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- A list of your surveys is also available on the start page:
- Choose your general settings:
Once you started a survey:
- Add questions to it 1 by 1, using a variety of question types:
- An internal variable can be useful for managing results:
- Overview:
- Changing sequence of questions:
- Settings overview:
- Adding recipient contacts for a private survey:
- Publishing and collecting
Categories: e-infrastructure, Polls
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How to troubleshoot network share and thumb drive disk space issues with WinDirStat
2012/04/13
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- There are many such tools, but WinDirStat has served me well, and it is free.
- Especially useful seems the treemap visualization and that you can drill in per file type, from the upper right pane, and to a file location from the tree map,. like so:
- Similarly useful on not-shared, but limited-storage drives, e.g. for deduplicating, like so:
- This detailed tutorial (which, incidentally, uses WinDirStat, can give you a list of ideas/folders where it is worthwhile checking the WinDirStat results (although one of the nice features of WinDirStat is that it sorts folders and an aggregate of the files in a folder by size).
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, e-infrastructure, software
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