Sanako Lab 90, User Manual

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Overview
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SANAKO LAB 90 ACTIVITIES AND SESSIONS
In SANAKO Lab 90, activities are what and how you are
teaching and the students learning. SANAKO Lab 90
sessions are the settings within which you and your students
proceed with the different exercises. For example, you can
have one group of students practicing group discussion and
another group proceeding with listening comprehension. All
you have to do is create two sessions, one for group
discussion and one for listening comprehension. For each
session you will select the participants, the desired activity,
and an audio source, and then simply initiate the activity for
the students to perform.
SANAKO LAB 90 ACTIVITIES
The SANAKO Lab 90 language instruction center includes
the following pre-programmed activities:
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Listening Comprehension
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Phone Conversation
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Pair Discussion
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Group Discussion
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Quiz
Pre-programmed activities are exercises that you assign to
your students in SANAKO Lab 90 sessions. Based on the
activity you select, the Session Screen guides you through
the balance of the activity procedure.
For information on how to proceed with the different
activities, see the descriptions in
Activity Procedures later in
this guide.
SANAKO LAB 90 SESSIONS
A session is a group of students performing a learning
activity. You can freely choose the number of participants; a
session can consist of one single student, a number of
students, or the whole class. Altogether you can have up to
three sessions.
A session is the key concept of the SANAKO Lab 90 class
and the session-based thinking shows in the design of the
GUI. The Lab 90 sessions are color-coded, so on your
screen you can easily view all relevant information and follow
the right student icons.