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>Subject: FW: #8058  Delivery of MP3 files
>Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:37:50 +1300
>Thread-Topic: #8058  Delivery of MP3 files
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>From: "Edith Paillat" <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Claire,

I introduced Audacity to my colleagues a year ago - and several times -
with all the bells and whistles (record in your time and office, send
file by email, upload on server etc..) it deserves; apart form people
interested in exploring new techniques, 80% teachers were still using
our analogue recording equipment (tapes and mixer) in our soundproof
recording room as they had been doing for the past decade. The recording
room (had to) disappear(ed) early this year to be replaced by a PC
self-access lab for independent learning. In the months that followed,
we have actually had very little mumble and grumble - unless I didn't
hear about it - and all in all teachers are now happily using Audacity
now. However the transfer to Audacity demanded and still demands a great
deal of availability on behalf of the support person; let alone when you
introduce something new to people starting with a great lack of
confidence and reluctance. 

Have a special meeting in a computer lab and give them examples of how
the sounds can be used, involve your head of schools to push them along,
maybe? Keep it easy and get your IT department to install Audacity on
all language teachers PCs - even if they are not asking. When come the
right time introduce it on a one to one basis if need be. 
Some teachers here are also using Blackboard to upload their files, but
students send their own recordings by email to their teachers to an
adress other than their staff address to avoid cluttering up the mailbox
-.
They also sometimes upload them on our server - restricted to their
language file - for teachers to collect and mark. Students use Audacity
on our Macs and Soloist on our PCs for pronunciation practice and
assignments, and are loving it.
Best regards

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Edith Paillat
Language Technology Specialist
Language Learning Centre
Victoria University of Wellington
P.O.Box 600, Wellington
New Zealand
+64 4 463 5792
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/llc/about/projects.aspx

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I am wondering how others have organized accessibility to
student-recorded MP3 files.  Currently our students record themselves on
audio tapes which they turn-in to their professors.  I would like to use
Audacity/LameLib to move this work onto the computers, but I'm not sure
how to deliver it to professors who are less than thrilled about using
technology.  Have you created a webspace?
emailed sound files? used Blackboard?  Any ideas would be welcome!
Thanks,
Claire

Claire Sandler
Coordinator, Language Learning Center
Modern Languages Department
151 Regina Hall
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-284-5376
http://www.saintmarys.edu/~llc/
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