--- Forwarded Message from Bridget Dahill <[log in to unmask]> --- >User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.1.0.040913 >Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:42:31 -0500 >Subject: Re: #7791 Oral testing in lab >From: Bridget Dahill <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> 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. -- Bridget Dahill Curricular Computing Specialist Amherst College [log in to unmask] (413) 542-8287 > From: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum > <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:31:11 EST > To: <[log in to unmask]> > 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]> >> To: [log in to unmask] >> 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 > > > *********************************************** > LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for > Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and > Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). > Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. > Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) > ***********************************************