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>Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 08:08:49 -0700
>From: Rob Reynolds <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #5737 Digitized audio
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Thanks to George for all his hard work and his excellent tutorials on
recording and embedding audio.  I have used his pages as introductory
tutorials for new Learning Center staff members.

George, I echo your question regarding the validity of digitizing
publishers' audio tapes.  One answer, particularly in Spanish and French, is
that the laboratory manuals and workbooks are designed to acommodate thirty
to forty minute segments and, with the slider on most audio players, it's
not that difficult for students to navigate within close proximity of the
exercise they want.  Also, by using larger files, as you point out, file
maintenance is kept to a minimum.  We have audio files that we manage for
fourteen languages and approximately fifty courses.  While I cut up some of
our files, and laud the wonderful creativity displayed on your site, as a
paractical matter of file and staff management I do enjoy the ready-made
approach of simply digitizing some of the tapes as they are.

Rob Reynolds, Ph.D.
Director, Modern Languages Learning Center
University of Oklahoma
(O) 405-325-1352
(F) 405-325-0103
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>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 17:00:20 -0500
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>From: George Mitrevski <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Digitized audio

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Hi folks.

I was following the recent discussion about digitizing audio and setting up
servers for audio files. I am wondering, though, what the benefits are of
digitizing publishers audio tapes, other than the ease of access. How
pedagogically sound is it for a student to work with an audio file that may
be
30-45 minutes long, and may cover an entire chapter's worth of topics? Like
many of you, I too have digitizes all of my audio tapes. But in addition, I
cut the content of each tape/audio file down to the specific exercise level,
or down to a sentence level, and even down to the single word level. So, I
have accumulated approximately 1,500 audio files, and the list is growing. I
use, and re-use, these files for a variety of JavaScript exercises with
embedded audio. Currently I'm working on crossword puzzles, where I provide
audio clues, instead of the standard text clues. My next project is to
develop
similar types of exercises with embedded Windows media video.

You can see some samples, as well as read tutorials on how it is done, at

www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/knowledge/index.html

George.

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