Lab 300 - Comprehensive, hardware-enhanced language lab

Sanako Lab 300 lets you manage your language class with ease. For example, you can customize content to individual students or groups, record student practice sessions, access a media library, multimedia teaching material, and testing tools, convert analog sources to digital formats, and much more.

Can be installed into an existing computer classroom, includes separate audio cabling for high-quality real-time audio.

What are 21^st century language labs and why use them in teaching?

Teacher-led activities lead to versatile and engaging lessons:

• Variety of tools, exercises, and learning modes increase opportunities for listening, speaking, and interacting
• Use a wide variety of content; convert analog sources to digital formats
• Individualize teaching by grouping and pairing students, allowing them to work on exercises at their own pace; monitor and record progress

Use class time more productively:

• Monitor student screens and remotely control student PCs so students get personalized learning and support
• Focus on teaching and learning, thanks to functionalities such as Internet- and application-blocking
• Meet students’ varying needs by dividing the class into smaller groups that can work on exercises at different paces
• Ensure that all students are engaged in language learning at the same time

Students can learn individually:

• Language learning can be teacher-led or at the students’ own pace
• Ability to record their speech and exercises enables self-evaluation

More Lab 300 features and benefits - click on the topics to expand them

Converting your Existing Audio Tapes

Save time and expense due to the way that Lab 300 automatically digitizes and prompts you to save your files every time you use any taped material within your lessons. Build up your library of digitized materials for use within the lesson or for self-access purposes.

Communication

The teacher can speak to the entire class or to a selected group, as well as listen to a selected student and participate in a student’s activity. The teacher can select students to work in groups, pairs, or to simulate telephone calls to each other.

Tests

Lab 300 counts and marks the answers to multiple-choice exercises, with results immediately displayed on a graph using the Response Analyzer function. Students’ voice responses to oral tests may be either saved on a cassette tape or copied digitally onto the server.

Classroom Management

With Lab 300, teachers can launch and close programs, copy and launch files on student PCs, shut down, restart and logoff the student PCs, and control the students’ web browsers.

Program Source Control

The Program Source Control is integrated directly into the Lab 300 Teacher Software. For example, an external audio or video recorder or a CD player on the teacher's PC can be used as a Program Source. Four different program sources can be transferred to four different groups simultaneously.

File Packaging

The file packaging feature allows users to package or zip material that is created outside of the school environment. This gives the teacher greater flexibility in creating teaching material, as it can be done off-site, e.g. at home, and easily used at school during classroom teaching.

DVD Control

A simple feature that offers a world of convenience to teachers, as it allows them to use one interface – the Lab 300 GUI for teaching activities, as well as to control the DVD that is in the computer. No more switching from one window to the another – everything is easily, efficiently and conveniently located in one user-friendly interface.

Recording

With two tracks for use - one for the program, the other for student recordings - digital learning material is played on the program track, and students can record their responses on the student track.