--- Forwarded Message from "Brandon S. Lee" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Subject: RE: #7791 Oral testing in lab
>Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:34:30 -0500
>Thread-Topic: #7791 Oral testing in lab
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>From: "Brandon S. Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"
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Marcella,
I taught a course at UNC-Chapel Hill last year where we got rid of tapes
and decreased in-class time by using technology extensively. I replaced
most of the in-class repetitive exercises with web-based recordings,
recorded videos of the students that we put online, and did 90% of the
homework online.
If you would like to see the course I taught, I set up a fake user
account that you (or anybody else) can use to see what it looks like.
URL: http://courses.edufolio.com
Login: [log in to unmask]
Password: llti
There are two courses: French 21 and French 2X. The 2X course has quite
a bit of recorded material. You can click on the assessments to the
right to see them/try them out. The French 21 course shows extensive
use of the discussion forums. Some of the audio from student
presentations is not great, but that is because they recorded from a
laptop with no external microphone. I required that they have a $5
microphone, but some didn't buy it. For group work, the external mic is
recommended. For their individual assignments, the built-in mics on the
laptops worked fine.
You need Flash Player 6+ to hear/record audio.
Regards,
Brandon
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Subject: #7791 Oral testing in lab
--- Forwarded Message from Marcella Rollmann <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:53:18 -0330 (NST)
>From: Marcella Rollmann <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Oral testing in lab
Dear Colleagues, we would like to hear about your successes or failures
with oral testing in a computer lab. What hardware, software, etc.
worked
or didn't work.
We currently have two labs: a cassette lab for listening/speaking
practice and oral testing, and a digital lab, which we have used mostly
for writing / grammar practice. We are in the process of phasing out the
cassette lab, since there are more and more materials available with
audio
components for computer labs. We are wondering, however, how we are
going
to accomplish oral testing in the computer lab. We test hundreds of
students at the end of each semester in the cassette lab. The students
hear about 10 recorded questions and have to respond, recording their
answers. There is also a listening comprehension component, but we
foresee
no problem with that. We then collect the tapes and listen to them on
tape
recorders in our offices. How will we replace this kind of testing with
computers? Could we even use a video clip for each question and have
the
students respond to that rather than just an audio clip? Someone has
suggested WebCt might work as the management tool. Has anyone tried
this?
Thanks for any help!
Marcella Rollmann
Assistant Professor
Department of German
Memorial University
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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