Features and Benefits

SANAKO Lab 100 is a versatile language learning center that requires only one computer – the teacher’s. Students are equipped with durable, low cost and simple to operate user audio panels with high-quality digital audio that is ideal for language learning. Students will love to learn in this modern environment because they can work with the best possible tools.

SANAKO Lab 100 offers teachers a mistake-free approach to conducting modern and exciting lessons in the language classroom.

The new versions of SANAKO Lab 100 introduce a podcasting feature to help teachers make more digital learning material available for students. The solutions allow teachers to easily upload digitized or existing MP3 material to the web* for students to access online, thus extending learning possibilities.

By making classroom and home study material available on the Internet, teachers can more easily integrate classroom learning with independent study. Online material also supports on-demand learning, allowing students to access resources as needed.

Podcasting in SANAKO Lab 100 offers many benefits:

• Allows school to extend learning opportunities beyond the classroom
• Materials used in lab can be accessed for off-campus exercises or self study
• Materials can be used with different SANAKO solutions
• Makes effective use of the Internet to extend learning opportunities
• Integrates popular, easily available media resources into the language lab
• Allows for use of podcasts on mobile learning devices alongside language labs
• Supports self-evaluation and peer evaluation of student recordings

* The school must have web server or access to a web server to support files.

• Easy-to-use Language Lab
• Activity-based approach answers teacher’s needs
• Many dynamic ways to communicate in the Lab
• More effective learning for each individual in the language class
• Digital and Analog Program Sources

Robust and dynamic system. This innovative language lab provides a variety of instructional modes that guide teachers and students through the lesson. The teacher using SANAKO Lab 100 doesn’t have to worry about making a wrong move, since only those controls that are necessary for a particular phase of a program are available at that time - all teachers can use the system, regardless of the level of their IT skills.

Better and more effective teaching and learning. The activity-based approach of the Lab 100 solution includes varied exercises that correspond with teaching needs. Teachers can simply select the activity they want to begin without complicated moves on the user interface, saving time and increasing efficiency.

Support and feedback in real-time. With SANAKO Lab 100, the teacher can control the entire class and communicate with an individual, a pair, or a group of students, without disturbing the others. Because the teacher has a variety of different ways to communicate with students, support, instructions and feedback can be given as situation requires: to an individual student, pair of students, collectively to a group or session or the entire class.

Tracking student progress and skills development. Allowing students’ individual work in the Lab 100 environment improves students’ performance as they can concentrate on their own progress; it also caters to the different skill levels in the classroom.

Discussion Activities. The Pair and Group Discussion activities in Lab 100 promote student interaction and provide an easy tool for conversation exercises.

Tests. The testing and grading activities available in Lab 100 reduce the time the teacher would traditionally spend on these activities –Lab 100 therefore offers teachers the ability to work faster and more efficiently, and these tasks become easier, too!

Recording Student Responses. Student performance can be monitored and assessed by recording individual responses, either with the Recorded Response or Question and Answer activity.

Quiz. With the Lab 100 Quiz function, the teacher can easily add multiple choice and true/false exercises to the teaching plan.

Student Grading.With the Lab 100 grading function the teacher can give students grades and additional notes. The grade results can be seen in a report view, which can be saved and printed out for later review.

Self Study. The teacher can allow students to operate their digital Lab 100 User Audio Panels to work with the program material independently.

Individual Learning. Allowing students’ individual work in the Lab 100 environment improves students’ performance as they can concentrate on their own progress; it also caters to the different skill levels in the classroom.

Podcasting. The podcasting feature helps teachers make more digital learning material available for students on the Internet, thus integrating classroom learning with independent study.