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>Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:42:31 -0500
>Subject: Re: #7791 Oral testing in lab
>From: Bridget Dahill <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Marcella,
We use Blackboard course management system (similar to WebCt) with
supplemental Wimba voice tools. Using Wimba on Blackboard students and
faculty can record voice right on the computer for several applications:
posting audio files to the Blackboard course site, creating voice discussion
boards, and sending voice emails. For example, a faculty member uses Wimba
to create an audio file of a poem that the students are to learn. Students
log on to the Blackboard course site and listen to the poem, then recite the
poem back in a voice email to the faculty member. No more cassettes; no need
to get to the language lab to do the assignment; no excuses for not getting
the assignment done.
Let me know if you'd like to hear more about it.
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Bridget Dahill
Curricular Computing Specialist
Amherst College
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(413) 542-8287
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> --- Forwarded Message from Marcella Rollmann <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:53:18 -0330 (NST)
>> From: Marcella Rollmann <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Oral testing in lab
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>
> 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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