--- Forwarded Message from "Edith Paillat" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: FW: #8058 Delivery of MP3 files >Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:37:50 +1300 >Thread-Topic: #8058 Delivery of MP3 files >Thread-Index: AcXYygni6gUVONV7SD6b2NwrQ7MpEgAIbEUwAYv3x/A= >From: "Edith Paillat" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 **************************** 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 --- Excerpt: 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/ [log in to unmask] --- end of excerpt *********************************************** 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]) ***********************************************