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Sanakoaudioconfigonthefly software utilities updated for Vista/Windows7

2013/12/09 Leave a comment
  1. (Shortcut to download – now fixed) The reason why a colleague’s signature reads: “Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it’s on fire" (Bruce Sterling) might just be that a multimedia-capable fully computerized classroom – think 30 PCs and 30 students trying not only to listen to, but record responses to exam audio – is a notoriously difficult beast to control, and all too easily spins out of the same (a classroom humming in an endless audio feedback loop is neither a pleasant nor an unfamiliar sight).
  2. The Sanako Study 1200 is a digital audio lab software that facilitates the use of personal computers in face-to-face class settings. However, while the Sanako Study 1200 features many ways for the teacher to control and manage the student PCs, the students’ audio settings cannot be controlled on the fly.
  3. Enter these little sanakoaudioconfigonthefly utilities (written in AutoIt) for Windows 7 and Vista  (old Windows PX version still available here) that extend the Sanako Study 1200.
  4. We now use  (as it is completely adequate and actually superior to to the seemingly more applicable PC control / Launch programs features which is requires the program executable to reside under the same path on student and tutor computer) Playlist / copy and launch (folder icon) and the Sanako grouping feature to send a program with your choice of action to the student PCs  of your choice. In this example,
    1. click playlist, 01
    2. and in the window that opens, click (1) to send to “all”, then click (2) to select which program to send: image_thumb[3]
  5. Files included in this release (each for 64-bit, and as source code, so that you can compile your own if you are still on MS-Vista/MS-Windows-732-bit platform):
    1. Change student recording levels (microphone sensitivity).
    2. Toggle student sidetone ( in Sanako = “listen” to this device in Windows)
    3. Control student playback level (headphone volume).
  6. Likely these programs can be adapted beyond Sanako Study 1200, but I do not remember (helpful comments appreciated)
    1. whether other digital audio lab platforms (Sony Virtuoso, Robotel SmartClass) allow for changing the student audio config on the fly
    2. and what mechanism (if any – but likely) they (and Sanako Lab300) provide to launch programs on the students’ computers
  8. Prerequisites:
    1. None other than your digital audio lab software and the utilities you can download below. In particular, it is not required to install AutoIt on teacher or student computers.
    2. However, there should be only 1 microphone/speaker per student computer in the digital audio lab. If you have more, you likely have bigger problems to solve first, but you also need to alter the source code (included) to select the microphone you want to work with (should be easy; note however, that I have not tested this scenario, for: “There should be only 1 microphone/speaker per student computer in the digital audio lab” Smile
  9. Request here to download these utilities.
    Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-manager, digital-audio-lab, multimedia-recording, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-programming Tags: , , , , , , , ,

    Basics of Windows Search (Windows Vista, probably Windows7) – in German

    2010/01/05 Leave a comment

    Ich könnte ohne die verbesserte Windows (als herunterladbares add-on auch für XP) Suche wohl noch leben (vegetieren! :-), aber nicht mehr arbeiten.

    In MS-Vista (englisch, das müßt ihr selbst eindeutschen, aber meist gehen die die englischen Abkürzungen auch im deutschen Windows), im “control panel” kann man unter “indexing options” Feinheiten einstellen:

     

     

    Man kann die Suchoptionen ändern, wenn man die “search tools” aufklappt:

     

    Wehttps://plagwitz.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=6&action=editnn man mit windows taste + f eine neue Suche öffnet, hat man auch eine “Aufklappe” für “advanced search”:

     

    Das sieht dann so aus :

     

    Sobald man zu faul wird, immer das Gui zu benutzen, kann man nach dem öffnen von windows-Taste + f in der Einzel-Suchzeile die “advanced syntax” (in der Hilfe dokumentiert) benutzen.

    Die Abkürzungen, die ich am häufigsten benutze, sind ungefähr diese :

     

    file:weihnachtsgeschenke ext:xls folder:myfiles date:>12/24/2009

    Categories: e-infrastructure, os Tags: , , ,