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LRC Assistant Start of Year Training: The PowerPoint

2011/09/13 Leave a comment
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Sanako Study 1200 Workshop Fall 2011

2011/08/18 Leave a comment

Those who wanted to, but did not make it to the vendor training by Sanako’s David Golden (who gave us a basic orientation displaying functions of teacher screen and student screen and demonstrated basic activity functions and what happens at the student screen), might want to have a look at the unedited screencast footage (for Windows Media Player on Windows, if necessary, resort to LRC) I recorded during the entire 2 1/4-hour session:

  1. the first one recording the screen of a sample student station
    1. with an explanation of the student player at the beginning,
  2. the second one recording the screen of the teacher computer
    1. have a look at the end around 2:10:00 where we connect a group of students via screensharing and audio (headsets), so that a group, dispersed across the classroom, can orally collaborate on an MS-Word document  that one student types into but all students see.
    2. The Sanako features used for this are from the dropdown: activity: discussion, and from the button: pc control:model student. Both can be combined with each other, and with a third feature, the capability to subdivide the class in multiple groups.
    3. This application I found useful when, before reviewing materials with one half of the class, I sent my more advanced learners off to a more independent and applied group writing task. I allows any member of the class to join the advanced group,  no matter where they are located. It also forces the group members to communicate  all the target language aurally to the model student. Finally, it affords them access (though not individually) to the language learning tools of a computer while working on their tasks
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Sanako Study 1200 Workshop Spring 2011

2011/08/18 Leave a comment

Those who wanted to, but did not make it to my introductory training for the newly installed Sanako Study-1200 in LRC COED434 might want to have a look at the unedited screencast footage of the teacher computer that I recorded during this session (for Windows Media Player on Windows, if necessary, resort to LRC PCs).

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Sanako Study 1200: Student Basics II: The Screencast

2011/06/10 Leave a comment

This screencast covers the basics of Study 1200 for students

For a quick guide to the Student interface, see Student Basics I: The Screenshots

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How to enable your SMEs to collaboratively define and add metadata to learning materials

2008/03/28 Leave a comment
  1. We have been asked to manage digital assets (including web links) and enabling incorporating them as learning materials within a series of study programs.
  2. We researched a number of metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies that have been applied to language and social sciences learning materials before,
  3. and incorporated those into the below MS-Excel application, to allow for easy marking up of existing assets by SMEs – using collaborative tagging instead of the more familiar, but more easily conflicting, since mutually exclusive folder hierarchy (unidirectional-tree structure).
  4. In addition, SMEs can expand and develop the controlled vocabulary, by adding tags of their own, as you can see at the end of this demo:
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