Thomas' Work Space

1. The workshop stayed  “this side of the digital audio lab”, i.e. focused on those generic teaching tasks that the Sanako Study 1200 can facilitate which have the widest teaching application (including in, but also beyond language-skill-courses):
   1. remote controlling student computers,
   2. screen sharing, collaborating with students,
   3. launching applications on students computers,
   4. sending students to webpages,
   5. launching handout files to students and collecting their input back
   6. locking their computers, screens or keyboards,
   7. “clicker” classroom polls, for which I have written a PowerPoint Template you can base your own clicker-like face-to-face class exercises on.
   8. and more…
   9. Here are two screencasts of my presentation:
      1. one for the right screen/participant screen (using the Study1200 teacher to student screen casting). Requires Windows Media Player on PC, like in the LRC: download from MS-SkyDrive.
      2. one for the left screen/projector, where I displayed mostly a PowerPoint. You can watch this in parallel using another player, e.g. the VLC player, like in the LRC. However, it can also stream from MS-SkyDrive.

1. Enables easy exercise creation:
2. Resides on S:\coas\lcs\labs\lrctest\templates\Teacher.pot;
3. Requires MS-PowerPoint 2010, as installed on the teacher computer in LRCRoomCoed434.
4. Training videos are available for download here (requires Windows Media Player on Windows, as installed in the LRCRoomCoed434).
1. powerpoint_template_overview_default_slide.wmv
2. powerpoint_template_sequential_slides.wmv
3. powerpoint_template_interactive_slides.wmv
5. Usage samples available on request from
1. German Beginners,
2. Intermediate 
3. and Advanced Classes.

1. Symptom: Without hardware changes (a visualizer that seemed to enter into the equation as an AV source seems to have been ruled out as culprit), PowerPoint cannot display show from primary right screen to secondary left screen.
2. Cause: Upgrade to PowerPoint 2010 from 2007, but seems really an underlying video driver limitation that has given us grieve in our – admittedly uncommon: 1024*768 on secondary, projector-connected screen, dictated by the projector – setup before.
3. Workaround: Make the 1024*768 left screen the primary screen.
   1. Upside: this allows to project the show to the class, but teacher can still move the underlying PowerPoint presentation onto the right screen (for previewing answers. The PowerPoint 2010 upgrade did fix the PowerPoint 2007 bug that interactive animations from PowerPoint 2003 where briefly revealed on slide load before they went into the default hidden state).
   2. Downsides:
      1. Presenter view is still not possible, complains about seeing only one screen connected, even though “Check” button brings up the windows screen properties dual screen.
      2. The Windows taskbar displays on the left screen, so teacher staging is visible to the class when projector is on (as it always was with a single screen. Only the  secondary right screen added a staging area for the teacher).

1. The Educause ECAR for 2011 Lists among its top actionable survey results: “Nail the basics. Help faculty and administrators support students’ use of core productivity software for academic work.
2. Not a language learning specific result , but a reminder also for the LRC to prioritize:
1. LRC posts on “productivity software”,
2. and most of our students’ “academic work” lives online in Moodle.

1. re LCD projector
   1. First, book the projector from this list of bookable items (manual included). 
   2. Here is what we have as Projector: <
   3. connect the VGA-adapter which is in the package:  
   4. (if your laptop does not have a secondary VGA connector, you may need to bring an adapter).
   5. power the projector on: (also always power it off using the power button; never just pull the power plug).
2. on your laptop:
   1. find the key combination to enable the secondary output
   2. 
   3. right-click the windows desktop, access the graphics card settings;
   4. Enable the graphics card to send a video signal to the projector you just connected.  . I the projector native resolution is not automatically recognized, it is 1024*768.
3. If you want to show a slideshow on the projector, go to PowerPoint 
   1. ribbon, (1) Slide Show/ item: (2)) set up show, and bring up the (3) set up show dialogue 
   2. here you can configure to show on monitor 2 (numbers correspond toe the numbers 1 and 2 in the graphics card dialogue above): . Same principle as with other dual screen computers, like the teacher station in LRCCOED434.

1. Many streets may lead to Rome, but here is the "One Microsoft way”, built into PowerPoint 2010: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-HA010336763.aspx: You can essentially “save as”  video, including recorded narrations. You have to have your media inserted in 2010 format. Here is a walk-through:
2. under “file”, “save&send”, use “create video”
3. if you get a compatibility error like so:
4. follow the instructions given;
5. watch the progress bar:
6. Takes over 60 minutes with on average over 50% CPU of an Intel i5 with 8 GB Ram, to produce a 75MB file of 920*760 and less than 18 minutes in length. But this video streams from MS-SkyDrive.

1. In WordPress, a SkyDrive embed code for PowerPoint

   iframe src="http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidPowerPointEmbed?p1=1&p2=1&p3=SD25C841818181C2!132&p4=&kip=1" 

   width="402" height="327" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">/iframe

   gets converted to:

   office src="http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidPowerPointEmbed?p1=1&p2=1&p3=SD25C841818181C2!132&p4=&kip=1" 

   width="402" height="327"

   (similar to the behaviour shown with Excel Web App. Likely here also, you will have to replace a secure protocol "https", if it occurs in your embed code, with "http").

2. WordPress displays this like so:
3. And you can full-screen to SkyDrive like so:
4. Online editing is also possible, but not part of this test.

Before trying to show your PowerPoint on the classroom projector, with your PowerPoint file open on the teacher computer, go to the dialogue: “Set up Show” and choose from the dropdown: “secondary monitor”, click “OK”, like so:

Then proceed as normal.