February 24th, 2010 by chris
We’ve spent the last year listening to educators, hearing feedback, and improving our product. And it’s paid off, thanks to your hard work - Lingt Classroom has been used in over 3000 classrooms worldwide, recording more than 2000 hours of audio data! So in order to celebrate our progress over the last year, in the coming months we’ll be adding a fantastic set of new features, as well as transitioning to a new three-tier service model. For details on this new model go here.
Thank you for your continued support - it’s been an incredible year!
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December 7th, 2009 by Justin
We’ve been busy this summer doing two things. First, we’ve been thrilled to see Lingt Classroom grow in popularity and become an integral part of classrooms across the globe. It’s been a pleasure getting to know all the teachers out there who actively search for new technology to improve their students’ experience and found us. To all our users: thank you.
Secondly, we built a shiny new product that helps individuals learn a language online. As opposed to Lingt Classroom which helps teachers engage their students, our new site is meant for anyone that wants to self-study to pick up a new language. Lingt Classroom is still going to operate and be supported like it always has, and we look forward to continuing to improve it.
You can see the new site here. Right now, we’re only offering Chinese (other languages to be added soon), so to the Chinese teachers using Lingt: please tell your students to check it out.
Posted in Company, Feature Update, IB/AP, Language Learning, Technology
November 1st, 2009 by Justin
This month we’re were thrilled to be named “Site of the Month” by TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language).net. From the write-up:
Lingt stands out for two reasons. Firstly, it is straight forward. Teachers and learners should have no problem figuring out how to use it. All you need to do is give your students the URL to your Lingt classroom (you receive this when you sign up).The activities and quizzes you create are stored on site and you can offer individual feedback quickly and easily. Secondly, Lingt includes a function for speaking. Unlike the traditional paper based tests and worksheets, teachers can test listening and speaking skills.
You can read the whole review here. Thanks, TEFL.net!
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September 12th, 2009 by Justin
A great review by the excellent technology and education blog, Bag of Tricks. See it here.
From the article: “Lingt is a very promising new tool designed for language teaching. . . I found the assignment editor extremely intuitive and easy to use.”
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August 5th, 2009 by Justin
Though our blog has been a bit barren, Lingt’s new offices in San Francisco have been anything but. We’ve spent the summer working on exciting new language-learning technology that we’re very excited to roll out in the very near future. Which brings us to that new “classroom” label that recently appeared. . .
We love our logo and brand - so much so that we wanted to use it for the new stuff we’re working on. To avoid confusion, we’re going to start referring to this site as “Lingt classroom” - since our users are exclusively teachers (all whom we love for using Lingt). This site will now be at lingtclassroom.com, but lingtlanguage.com will continue to redirect here.
We’ll let you know what we’ve been working on very soon. We think you’ll all be very excited to see what we’ve got cooking.
Posted in About Us, Company
July 12th, 2009 by Justin
One of the most requested features from teachers has been to allow uploading of mp3 sound files to create Lingt assignments. Well, you’re the boss.
You can now double click a record bubble to reveal a new box that allows you to browse and upload mp3s. Enjoy!
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May 27th, 2009 by Justin
Our thanks to Thomas Braslavsky at the National Capital Language Resource Center for the great review of the Lingt Editor. We couldn’t have described our own software and mission better ourselves. Check it out!
http://nclrc.org/teachers_corner/tech_for_teachers/feature.html
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May 22nd, 2009 by Justin
A cool article about Lingt in the Boston Phoenix. Check it out here!
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May 3rd, 2009 by Justin
We had a wonderful opportunity yesterday to present to the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association yesterday. It was such a pleasure to get such thoughtful feedback from the people on the other end of our technology.
The response was resoundlingly positive and we can’t wait to work with them to get Lingt in more classrooms. We definitely look forward to seeing MaFLA again at their conference in October.
We met one extremely helpful and dedicated teacher named Joshua Cabral. He’s already blogged on our visit - check it out!
Posted in About Us, Education, Entrepreneurship, IB/AP
April 11th, 2009 by Justin
As the semester winds down, high school seniors around the world are dreading the fast-approaching IB and AP exams. If they’re like us (IB and AP students ourselves), the oral component of the language exams is amongst the most intimidating beasts.
My IB French teacher was great: very committed to making sure we learned French and enthusiastic enough to incorporate interesting classroom activites and homework. However, when it came to oral exam time, I couldn’t shake my anxiety. I felt so unprepared. Despite the in-class speaking drills, I was terrified of that spinning tape recorder. Just imagine how hopeless I would be if actually dropped in France.
I wish I had Lingt when I was preparing for the IB exam. My only real preparation was an after-school practice-run with my teacher a couple weeks before - which was itself a terrific effort on her part given the time and resources required to do this for the entire class. Lingt would have allowed me to practice responding to oral prompts as part of my homework - no need to take time after-school or in class. The built-in feedback mechanism would have let me re-listen to my original speech alongside my teacher’s feedback. It would have saved my teacher tons of time and effort - and from my perspective as a student, I would have much preferred online speaking assignments over another journaling or fill-in-the-blank exercise.
We think Lingt should be incorporated in a classroom’s normal homework regimen, but it does seem uniquely perfect for preparing students for the oral component of the IB and AP exams. Get in touch if you’re an IB Language teacher and are interested in incorporate Lingt for free today.
Posted in About Us, Education, IB/AP