Learning the World » modules http://knewquist.edublogs.org An education tech blog by Ken Newquist Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Audio Recording Tool by the CovCell Project http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2009/03/19/audio-recording-tool-by-the-covcell-project/ http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2009/03/19/audio-recording-tool-by-the-covcell-project/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:12:15 +0000 Kenneth Newquist http://knewquist.edublogs.org/?p=155 Audio recording tools for Moodle are something that’s come up several times on campus. English and foreign languages faculty would love to be able to use such a tool with students; in English they’d use it to work on student’s inflections and readings of poetry, while foreign languages would use it as part of spoken language critques.

I experimented with using NanoGong to do this, but unfortunately it was just too unstable; the Java applet running it refused to save files on two of the three computers I tried it on … including computers on which it had worked.

COVCELLL has created the audio recording assignment that works with Moodle 1.9. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, and would love to hear from anyone who has.


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]]> http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2008/10/24/drupal-admin-module-demo/feed/ 0 Experimenting with NanoGong http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2008/08/12/experimenting-with-nanogong/ http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2008/08/12/experimenting-with-nanogong/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:35:03 +0000 Kenneth Newquist http://knewquist.edublogs.org/?p=109 I’m experimenting with installing NanoGong on one of our test servers running 1.9.2. It’s a browser-based auto recording/playback tool for Moodle (and other apps) that our English and Foreign Languages faculty are interested in. So far I’ve got the NanoGong assignment working, but in-forum recording isn’t working.

NanoGong crashed under Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) under Safari 3 and Firefox 3, but recorded/played back using the same browsers on Mac OS X 10.5. Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox 3 worked fine on Windows XP.

I’ll be continuing to experiment to see if I can get forum recordings working properly.

]]> http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2008/08/12/experimenting-with-nanogong/feed/ 0 iTunes U authentication block for Moodle http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2008/08/06/itunes-u-authentication-block-for-moodle/ http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2008/08/06/itunes-u-authentication-block-for-moodle/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:27:15 +0000 Kenneth Newquist http://knewquist.edublogs.org/?p=108 There’s an iTunes U authentication block available for Moodle 1.9 now. I haven’t had a chance to do more than kick the tires on it, but it seems like it’ll handle basic authentication to a protected iTunes U site using admin, faculty or student credentials. It allows you to create a block with a link to an iTunes U course. It doesn’t generate a list of the resources available in that course (which would be fantastic) but it looks like it might do what I need it to do in the short term. I’ll try it out more next week and report back.

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