Lingt is a very promising new tool designed for language teaching. It allows teachers to create assignments online into which you can add, images, text, voice recordings and videos, although currently only from YouTube, which could be a problem for some schools.
Once the assignment is ready, it can then be assigned to a class and each pupil can submit their individual responses back to the teacher. Pupils can submit written responses through Lingt and, as long as they have access to a computer microphone, responses can also include voice recordings.
Teachers need to register for a free account to create assignments but pupils don’t need to register at all. Simply share the appropriate link with them and they can submit their responses to you after supplying their name and email address after they have completed the assignment.
The fact that students don’t need to register is a big advantage in my opinion, as it makes this tool very easy to manage and more likely that students will embrace it.
Although I have not yet had the chance to use it with my pupils (we are still on our summer break) I have been experimenting with this application already and I created this assignment earlier today. Feel free to peruse it and even try your hand at Spanish!
I found the assignment editor extremely intuitive and easy to use. Recording voice prompts for your students is made really easy by the simplicity of the speech bubble interface: simply click to record, click again to stop and then again to re-play.
What don’t you have a go to see how easy it is and let me know what you think?
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Hi, Jose. Here by way of a tweet. I myself am experimenting with Linqt. Pretty cool. However, when I clicked on your link, it said, “Bad Gateway.” So, you may want to check it out. I really would like to see what you came up with!
Hi, Marcy. Thanks for letting me know, but the link works fine for me. I suggest you try again and, if it still doesn’t work, refresh your browser. I have noticed I have had to do that on several occasions today.
This is a really exciting new tool! I am trying it out, but having a problem – I can’t listen to the “student” responses. I know that they are recording because I am playing student and teacher, and the teacher recordings are fine. Have you had this problem at all? Any suggestions?
Hi Betsy, thanks for your comment. No, I am not having that problem. The only thing I can think of is, did you submit the assignment? If that doesn’t solve your problem you may want to contact Lingt about it.
Yes, I did submit them – and can see them when I log in as the instructor. I submitted the question to Lingt already, but thought you might have a quicker answer or the same problem. Thanks anyway!
I cannot hear student responses either. I am glad that it is not just my problem, although I wish I read this before I assigned a speaking assignment!!!
I wonder whether Betsy got a response from Lingt about this problem.
Nope, no response from Lingt. Very disappointing.
It works for me. It is a bit slow though, it appears the whole recording has to download before it is played in my browser, but it does play eventually after a few seconds’ wait.
Have you tried clicking on the play icon just the once and then wait a few seconds?
I have clicked and waited. It does not work. The button does not seem to be a link to any media related thing…I right click on it and it just asks if I want to save the image, instead of saving a file or downloading it.
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Many many thanks Jose for introducing me to this new top tool, that I’ll go on and share with colleagues here in New Zealand via our website. I’ll just add for your readers that the “share” section on the Lingt site is really good for inspiration once you’ve got going with the tool. U ☆!
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Hi,
Since students don’t need to create an account to do the assignment, is there a way to know what each student did? like how we, as prof, would know what answers belong to what student?
Thank you for your help.
Gisele,
Yes, there is. Students submit the assignment by entering their names and email addresses at the bottom of the screen. You know who’s done what simply by logging into Lingt and checking all your responses, all the turned-in assignments appear there with the sender’s name. Hope that helps.
Thanks for the information, I will ask my TAs to try it and see what will be the result
Hi José,
I’ve been playing with Lingt since I read you post: many thanks for making this tool know! I think it’s fantastic, especially to make yr11 practise for roleplays and speaking topics ( http://missferretti.typepad.com/miss_ferrettis_blog/2010/01/aqa-higher-roleplays.html ). The only “little” problem is that it seems impossible to use it in school – when you click on the speech bubbles to record your voice, it keeps on loading and nothing happens… but from home it works very well! I’ve used it for my International Project class (questionnaire) where they had to type in text and students loved it!
So, many thanks again,
Sarah Ferretti – Ryde High School
Hello Sarah,
Thanks for your comment. Lingt is indeed very good indeed to practice and assess speaking. Like you, I’m having to do the preparation at home and then having to ask my pupils to record themselves at home. But this, although a hurdle, has in fact presented us with an opportunity to do things differently, i.e. set speaking for homework.
There could be two reasons for the tool not working: 1) your school is filtering out the flash capabilities of the website (the website effectively asks the computer whether it can use the microphone – the line in – to record voice), as many teachers and all students don’t have admin rights to the machines they’re using, this would be impossible. 2) The second possibility is that your school needs to update the Flash software installed in the machines.
As you can imagine, the second solution is a very simple one and it may work for you, However, I suspect that the real reason is probably the first one. That being the case, it is notoriously difficult to get LEAs or individual schools to change their filtering policy.
In any case, good luck!
José