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If students have no mp3 audio on LRCRoomCoed433a Listening Stations
Problem: A Student that took the French Respondus Lockdown browser on PC 43, when playing to listening comprehension files, had no audio on her headset (except for her microphone input was played back...
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Protected: Elti0162 Syllabus with learning materials for listening and speaking
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Slowing source audio for interpreting classes in the digital audio lab
To judge from listening to Simult. Lesson 1, text 2 on Acebo Interpreter’s Edge (ISBN 1880594323), I am wondering whether some of our students (= personalization) would need this audio to be...
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How a student submits a Blackboard model imitation audio recording assignments
Access the assignment in the location of your Blackboard course that your instructor pointed you to. Download the model audio recording attached to the assignment to your desktop (if any). Right-click...
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How a teacher grades a Blackboard audio recording assignment
Switch to interactive view, if your vertical scrollbar does not show up, and thus the assignment column is hidden (or reduce the font size in Firefox, e.g. by holding CTRL and rolling the mouse scroll...
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Speaking/Listening Assessments and Oral Exams: A comparison what the LRC has...
Moodle: I proposed for installing one of the free audio recorder plug-ins into our Moodle, but we are not there yet. However, we do have a new video recording assignment (which is based on Kaltura)....
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International TV on the Internet
http://wwitv.com/portal.htm, lists 2244 online TV stations, by topic and “country” (note that this does not equal “language”).Filed under: all-languages, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers,...
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French TV on the internet
TV5 seems still in the satellite/per-per-view phase. But it offers free video learning resources: http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/enseigner-apprendre-francais/accueil_enseigner.phpFiled under: Advanced,...
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German public TV on the internet
http://www.ardmediathek.de/ http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek http://dwelle.deFiled under: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, German, learning-materials, Listening, websites Tagged: ard,...
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News TV on the internet: Politics and Legislatures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Parliamentary_broadcasters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Legislature_broadcasters http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/about/activities_en.cfm ”On-demand...
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Film-and-media-collection.xlsx online database under construction
Sneak preview (larger view here) of the searchable online database with internet background information lookup (Note: work in progress, hard-“head” area!): Friends of the UNCC-LRC can open this link in...
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How to use the online Portuguese pronunciation help to generate phonetic...
Go to http://www.co.it.pt/~labfala/g2p/ Write or paste your text into the textbox:“Grafemas” Choose your preferred phonetic alphabet (IPA, SAMPA) and other options. Press button: “Converter” to see...
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MS-Bing Dictionary for Chinese learners of English–and vice versa?
Link: http://dict.bing.com.cn/?ulang=EN-US&tlang=ZH-CN#%3Ahome, powered by Engkoo: This looks like a pretty evolved learning tool: It has instant suggestions that include usage information and...
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Streaming Problems with Realmedia via RTSP from ereserves with VLC Player...
VLC-player version 1.1.9, but also currently newest 1.1.11 as well on Windows CXP SP 3 opens from IE8 and Firefox 3.6 but is not able to play files (tested even multi) through. Rather, it nicely falls...
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Troubleshooting the wireless headsets in the TV viewing area
For lack of small group work areas, the 3 headsets help sharing the LRCROOMCOED433. They amplify the sound for the TV viewing audience, allowing to turn the TV volume down so as not to disturb other...
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Treffpunkt Deutsch Companion Website with Online Exercises
This first-year German textbook comes with a Companion Website with free online exercises, organized by chapter, on the publisher’s website (different from the Quia.com –based workbook and lab manual...
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How a teacher creates audio recordings for use with Sanako Student Voice...
One of the Sanako Student player’s useful features geared toward language learning activities, is that it can save the teacher the time and effort for inserting pauses into their audio recordings, so...
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How a teacher best adds cues and pauses to an mp3-recording with Audacity to...
The first screencast example uses insert tones and a gut amount of pause, for an interpreting exercise, into an authentic German political speech 1:00 search for a break (button: play/stop – pause...
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How to use Google translate for writing Cyrillic letters with a western...
Go to Google translate and do like so. Useful for learning, as well as typing when teaching.Filed under: Absolute-Beginner, Advanced, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, Beginner,...
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How to get sound on listening station computers by increasing the volume-levels
On the listening stations, if you have the headsets plugged into the connectors on the rear of the computer, and hear no sound, you may have the volume set to too low. Go to (1) control panel, (2)...
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Protected: Mock exam for Spanish combines various learning technologies in...
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Moodle Kaltura teacher and student video uploads combined
You can combine a Model/Question video, uploaded by the teacher as a video resource with an Imitation/Response video captured by the student. Cons: When viewing the teacher upload video...
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Independent study with free language learning materials from the FSI?
The Foreign Service Institute language learning materials – consisting of scanned documents and digitized audio of multiple courses per language – were still a heavily-advertised resource when I...
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Protected: Sanako Study 1200 Final oral exam for advanced Business Spanish: A...
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Spring 2012 Faculty Workshop II: Oral Proficiency testing with Audacity/Sanako
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...
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How the LRC supports Second Language Acquisition (all 4 skills) and testing...
Table of contents for 2 screencasts of a presentation, left screen slides/no audio, right screen/speaker audio – best viewed side-by-side. Time in LRC-report-speaker Time in LRC-report-slides Topic...
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French LRC tutor training Fall 2012
Filed under: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, e-languages, French, Listening, Reading, service-is-tutoring, Slideshows, Speaking, training, Vocabulary, Writing
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Russian LRC tutor training Fall 2012
Filed under: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, e-languages, Listening, Reading, Russian, Slideshows, Speaking, training, Vocabulary, Writing
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Italian LRC tutor training Fall 2012
Filed under: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, Dictionaries, e-languages, Italian, Listening, Reading, service-is-tutoring, Speaking, training, Vocabulary, Writing
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How to download Centro Spanish Textbook audio
The audio is in (compressed) mp3 format. Just right-click on any audio link and choose save target/link as (or similar, depending on browser), like so: Example from Centro – Puntos de partida: Online...
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How to use archive.org’s US-English news collection as a language learning...
Much of TV news nowadays seems to amount to not much more than a constant stream of sound bites – however, exactly this brevity, the large archive and simple search interface: the research/browsing...
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Group conference with all students and the teacher using Sanako Study 1200
To set up the maybe most common language classroom activity – everybody listening or talking to everbody else (whether student or teacher) – try this with the Sanako Study 1200 – plus have no student...
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How to start YouTube videos from the middle
To avoid having to manually find a segment of a YouTube video clip during presentations, or worse, downloading the video clips from YouTube before the presentation, to edit them into shape, try using...
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Arabic LRC tutor training Fall 2012
Filed under: Arabic, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, Dictionaries, e-languages, Listening, Reading, service-is-tutoring, Speaking, training, Vocabulary, Writing
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Here are some direct links to live international TV
Arabic Al-Jazeera Chinese CCTV-1 Dutch RTV N-H (variety) Finnish Channel 4 (variety) French France 24 (news) French TV5 (news) German NDR (variety), (new & untested) ARD live stream, or (likely...
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Fall 2012 Faculty Workshop I: Intermediate Sanako Teaching Techniques
(Being planned and scheduled, therefore this post is a work in progress, please stay tuned: ). Using the Sanako classroom management system for training (“loop induction”), we will present learning...
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Fall 2012 Faculty Workshop II: Clinic on creating teaching materials for use...
(Being planned and scheduled, therefore this post is a work in progress, please stay tuned: ). As a continuation (and practical application ) of our previous Intermediate Sanako Teaching Techniques...
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The big LRC SANAKO “How do I…?”
(Work in progress). View larger Word version than this embed: Filed under: all-languages, animated-GIFs, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, digital-audio-lab,...
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Overview of MS natural language support on Windows Vista+7/Office 2007, 2010
Snapshot summer 2012 in conjunction with our language center upgrade to Windows7 and Office 2010. Click here for larger version.Filed under: all-languages, audience-is-language-learning-center-manager,...
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Protected: A sample Sanako oral exam recording
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How teachers can conduct a 1-on-1 student oral assessment in their office...
If you need to conduct an OPI or other one-on-one oral exam instead of class-size oral exams we offer in the LRC, we have conducted 1-on-1 speaking assessments using the Sanako headsets and Student...
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Automating language learning listening material creation with Google...
A digital audio lab heavily depends on the availability of, but does not usually come with digital learning materials (and recent exceptions are exceptions for a reason) Some digital audio materials...
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LRC offers generating audio files from your foreign language texts
Would you like to expose your student to L2 listening materials beyond the audio learning materials that come with your textbook? Materials customized to the learning needs of your classes? From...
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LRC Fall 2013 announcements
The LRC has upgraded to Windows 7 and Office 2010. Benefits: Your students can use the computer interface from the default English to about 20 languages, including non-Western. Your students can also...
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Search Rhapsodie, a syntactic and prosodic Treebank of spoken French
The Rhapsodie Treebank is made up of “57 short samples of spoken French (5 minutes long on average, amounting to 3 hours of speech and a 33 000 word corpus)” endowed with an orthographical...
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How a teacher can use NanoGong’s plugin for the HTML editor to easily send...
The rich HTML editor recorder plug-in is supposed to make it easier for the teacher (than other recorders that require the teacher to save to file and upload the file to a Moodle activity). Here is how...
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Proposing for a free Moodle audio recorder: Technical options and faculty...
Current popular options for a free Moodle audio recorder: Nanogong is a popular, feature-rich and simple recorder that go entangled in the recent java politics and security scares. Since the company...
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How to get started with the new text-to-speech support in Sanako 7
With the new text-to-speech feature, students can generate their own pronunciation help: Using the button:Advanced settings, you can even vary the speed of, insert bookmarks to use with Sanako player...
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How students need to work around Sanako startup issues at start of 2014
UPDATE: Step 1 is not necessary anymore, Step2 (Microphone click) still is. Filed under: animated-GIFs, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, e-languages, Glitches&Errors,...
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Quizlet.com for Vocabulary learning practice
Neallt 2014 is featuring a presentation on “Using Quizlet.com to generate and share vocabulary activities” (William Price, University of Pittsburgh). I cannot attend, but the program inspired me to...
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