SANAKO Media Assistant

Digital interactive audio/video recorder

SANAKO Media Assistant Solo makes learning with digital audio, video and text files a stimulating experience as you can not only playback the content but also simultaneously record your comments, responses or translations.

Using Sanako Media Assistant Solo is an effective and enjoyable way to develop oral and listening language skills. You can listen to audio files or watch video clips from your hard disk or the Internet and at the same time you can record your speech and compare your recording with the original. Media Assistant Solo is a great tool to improve both pronunciation and intonation.

Media Assistant Solo also provides useful tools to easily create learning material by subtitling audio and video files and adding and saving digital bookmarks with questions or comments.

Now Media Assistant Duo and Solo have been enhanced to offer new benefits to teachers and students:

Variable speed playback for student convenience
Students can reduce the playback speed of learning material if they are having difficulty following. Putting more control in students’ hands encourages them to engage in active rather than passive learning.

Media Assistant file packaging helps teachers create teaching material outside of the Lab 300 setting
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. Coupled with our current Media Assistant Lite Site License campaign, teachers and students have great potential for taking learning beyond the school environment, and really making the language teaching investment work for them!

Attachment of more formats to bookmarks
Imagine the variety of teaching exercises that can be created if teachers could attach images, sound files, even presentation slides to bookmarks in Media Assistant. The benefits for teaching are clear – lessons have greater impact and are more effective when different media are combined to reinforce a point, and for the student, learning becomes more stimulating and also more effective!

For further information please see our brochure