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Use parentheses to search in MS-OneNote for a string that includes punctuation
The default is OR search around punctuation characters. Before parenthesis:
After:
Pretty obvious, but took me a while to figure out…
Why Sanako error Study files does not exist?
Well, it does, as the lower window proves. What gives? 
The Sanako student recorder play list always shows hidden files…
… not honoring the folder options in windows Explorer. Those and to manage (delete to remove from list) hidden files in the playlist window, you have to disable the hide in windows Explorer first.
Before unhiding os files:
After unhiding:
How to use the Sanako dual-track audio recorder
The Sanako Student Recorder (available for free here) allows you to listen on the source track while speaking/recording on the student track. Useful e.g. for interpreter practicing shadowing or simultaneous interpretation. It is as simple as pressing the red record and green play button:
After recording and reviewing, click file/save, and choose your output format.
Learn and teach writing in your second language on Lang-8.com
Improving language learning with technology for me seems to have 2 avenues: AI and human intelligence. Automated feedback on writing provided by proofing tools – even if they have become smarter and more contextual to spot (in MS-Word 2007 and up) common errors like your/you’re or their/there – makes one wonder about the feasibility of the former. But that automated essay-scoring tools which have been developed and deployed (at least for ESL) claim to score similarly as teachers makes one wonder about much more… Correcting writing remains expensive!
So may be we should look into crowd-sourced writing correction which needs no cutting edge NLP, only well-understood WWW-infrastructural technology to connect interested parties, but requires social engineering to attract and keep good contributors (and a viable business model to stay afloat: This site seems freemium).
Reading online comments and postings in your native language makes one wonder: can language teachers be replaced by crowdsourcing? I became aware of this the language learning website that offers peer correction of writing input by native-speaker through a language learner corpus. I have not thoroughly evaluated the site, but the fact that its data is being used by SLA researchers here (http://cl.naist.jp/nldata/lang-8/) seems a strong indicator that the work done on the website is of value.
To judge by the numbers accompanying the corpus (it is a snapshot from 2010, a newer version is available however on request), these are the most-represented L2 on lang-8.com: 
First steps with the teacher-training-setup for Sanako Study 1200 v7 in a deepfrozen computer lab environment
- I remember a time when the vendor travelled onsite to provide faculty induction into the Sanako Lab300, they set up the student PCs with a special version of the tutor software that multiple faculty could gain hands-on experience during a workshop.
- I have sorely missed this facility during my own 8 years’ of experience training faculty in using the successor product, Sanako Study 1200. No longer: With Sanako 7, Sanako provides to the digital audio lab manager an installer that sets up a similar environment for faculty in a Sanako Study 1200 lab. Below are some observations how to get this to run what should be a fairly typical HE language lab environment
- Install, in frozen state, as admin:
- Uninstall Sanako student recorder from appwiz.cpl
- Install "S:\COAS\LCS\MYDEPT\LRC\Secure\software\Sanako\7\TeacherTrainingSETUP.EXE" (right-click, run as admin)
- Is mostly hands-free, but I’d prefer an MSI with a /quiet install option, then I could automate that.
- One could write AutoIt script compiled to .exe that uninstalls student recorder? Need to know the msicache location ?
- Neither Uninstall of student recorder nor install of teacher-training-setup require a restart - is suitable for installation on otherwise frozen lab installation
- Additional setup required:
- I got an error about corrupt student settings file, but it worked.
- Loading students from "corridor"
- On unfrozen office computer, I got an error about student settings corrupt, but teacher could load students
- On frozen lab computer, I get no error, but teacher does not see students, although 5 have been started – Is an original student settings hanging around?
- After tutor setup (do not require tutor login) and restart, I get this error on the tutor:
- And this crash of the student:
- But now is see these signs of success :
- on student t
- on tutor this :
- And it works:
- on student t
- We have to unblock tutor in firewall twice:
- Initiate a screen sharing , then unblock :
- For audio: initiate a model imitation with collect, then unblock.
- Initiate a screen sharing , then unblock :
- Set Collection path:
- Initiate a homework collection , set collect path to a suitable folder (here S:\COAS\LCS\LRC\sanako\student).
- Not needed for audio collection.
- Other observations:
- Uses file download, not stream audio, to students: You can see the tutor and the student applications at the same time, monitoring the effects your tutor operations would have in the classroom
- Why at first 2 students and then 3?
- Why at first 2 students and then 3?
- Remote control:
- Note that screen sharing will switch aero off on your computer
- Note that button:"collaborate" does weird things to your mouse, make sure you can even get back to the button:"monitor" to turn it off.
- Uses file download, not stream audio, to students: You can see the tutor and the student applications at the same time, monitoring the effects your tutor operations would have in the classroom
- Setup TeacherTrainingSETUP for each workshop participant.
- The msi packages contained in teacher training setup as of Fall 2013, in case you ever get around automating the installer using AutoIt that you can deploy it from teacher station instead of having to touch each machine, please share:
- The msi packages contained in teacher training setup as of Fall 2013, in case you ever get around automating the installer using AutoIt that you can deploy it from teacher station instead of having to touch each machine, please share:
MS-Exchange and Outlook enable managing scheduling of 100+ functional resources
High-level Reporting: ![clip_image004[5]](https://thomasplagwitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/clip_image0045.jpg "clip_image004[5]")
Also, it is easy to manage calendars by group calendars, e.g.
![clip_image002[5]](https://thomasplagwitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/clip_image0025.jpg "clip_image002[5]")
Creation of calendar groups is also easy via the outlook address book:
![clip_image006[5]](https://thomasplagwitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/clip_image0065.jpg "clip_image006[5]")
It is Outlook (Desktop) currently only (not Exchange 2010 OWA) that allows for High-level Reporting. And even here, there are limitations:
![clip_image007[5]](https://thomasplagwitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/clip_image0075.png "clip_image007[5]")
"Server busy" error from Windows 7 speech recognition?
- Problem: We see this error frequently, on various LRC PCs, when logging in.
- Root cause: It looks like this is a speech recognition related error on the LRC PCs. Now that I am testing speech recognition on my office PC, I am seeing this error there also when starting speech recognition (together with a slowdown – not sure what is cause and effect there).
- Workaround: Not auto starting Windows 7 speech recognition, but having users launch it form the desktop when needed, should alleviate this problem.
- Resolution: Still investigating.
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