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LRC headset test on iMacs

2014/01/02 Leave a comment
  1. Logon to the iMac.
  2. Double click Macintosh HD.
  3. Click Application.
  4. Find Garage band and double click it.
  5. image
  6. Save the file to the desktop
  7. Press record image
    1. Speak into the microphone; then tab the microphone with your finger several times, to make sure you are recording through this source.
  8. Stop then play
  9. If there is no sound or you cannot hear anything, go to the Apple menuimage
  10. and click system preferencesimage
  11. Click sound then select the output tab
  12.  image
  13. Choose the usb option
  14. Select the input tab then again choose the usb option
  15. Close system preferences
  16. Try again to record then listen.
  17. Still not working? Check the iMac headset hardware , as described here: LRC routine walkthrough for iMacs and printer.
  18.  If it still does not work, report Computer # on clip board.
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, checklists, e-infrastructure, hardware, headphones, iMacs Tags:

Checklist for Vixia cameras (11-14)

2013/12/23 Leave a comment
  1. Parts
    1. Battery
    2. SD Memory Card
    3. Battery Charger
    4. Power cable
    5. USB cable
    6. vixia-components-CIMG0005
  2. Test the Functionality
    1. Start camera
    2. Record for 5 seconds clip_image001
    3. Playback:  clip_image002
  3. Maintenance
    1. Charge battery
    2. Initialize sd card: Sd-card like so.
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, checklists, e-infrastructure, Film-studies, film-studies-equipment, Reception-desk, service-is-library Tags: , ,

Checklist for heavy tripods (01-04)

2013/12/23 Leave a comment
  1. Are all Parts there?
    1. Tripod
    2. Head plate
    3. Screws /wing nuts
    4. Handleclip_image001
  2. Test the Functionality:
    1. Attach a camera to tripod.
    2. Move camera in all directions (top/bottom, left/right…)
  3. Maintenance:
    1. reduce tripod size again to its most compact position.
    2. Close all levers so that legs arrest.
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, checklists, Film-studies, film-studies-equipment, Reception-desk, service-is-library Tags: , ,

Checklist for Rebel cameras (17/18/19/20)

2013/12/23 1 comment
  1. Parts
    1. Battery
    2. SD Memory Card
    3. Battery Charger
    4. USB cable
    5. Lens

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  2. Test the Functionality
    1. Turn camera on
    2. Set to video
    3. Take a 5sec video
    4. clip_image002
    5. clip_image003
    6. Playback clip_image004
  3. Maintenance
    1. Charge battery
    2. Initialize sd card like so.
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, checklists, Film-studies, film-studies-equipment, Reception-desk, service-is-library Tags: , ,

Use CTRL+TAB to switch between tabs in Chrome kiosk fullscreen mode

2013/11/15 Leave a comment
  1. On the reception desk, when you open the NINERMAIL after logging into 49erexpress, Chrome opens NINERMAIL in another full screen tab (which hides the 49erexpress tab) – unlike full screen Internet  Explorer, which opened NINERMAIL in a new window, but which we had to abandon with the introduction of offfice365. 
  2. The 49erepxress tab is hidden, but still there, and you can switch between full screen tabs wit hthe keyboard shortcut CTRL+TAB (hold CTRL and pressing TAB repeatedly will cycle through all open Chrome tabs).
  3. So when a client is finished with NINEMAIL (meeting request), have them not only log out of NINERMAIL, but also CTRL+TAB back to the 49erexpress tab to log them out of 49express (and browse from the result window to the Sign-in link to be ready for the next client).
  4. No need to close the NINERMAIL tab. Next time somebody logs in to 49erexpress tab, Chrome will recycle the previous NINERMAIL tab.
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, e-infrastructure, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Reception-desk, service-is-library, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging, web-browsers Tags: , ,

Finding a balance between speed of log-in and readiness on help desk computers

2013/11/11 Leave a comment
  1. Problem:
    1. The LRC reception desk has 3 computers, each with 2 screens, one client-facing,  that, when not shared during collaboration for clerical tasks, display (LRC assistants have been instructed which screen has to show which information) LRC-related information (LRC calendar, home page with news and FAQs, slide show with signs).
    2. However, when a teacher was bringing student to Spanish tutor after tutoring hours, I  noticed,  that no LRC calendar was visible at reception desk (SAFARI on rightmost computer), nor could be loaded easily.
    3. Upon my asking, LRC assistant reported, Firefox never comes up correctly on her computer.
    4. What I could observe: Firefox came up with 2 windows w/o preconfigured tabs. image
    5. Safari came  up with 2 windows , also empty.image
  2. Root cause:
    1. It turned out that other students did not have this issue when logging in on the computers.

    2. It also turned out that the offending student’s profile had been frozen prematurely (in an obsolete state not incorporating changes we had to do during the term to maintain functionality of the reception desk computers in a changing campus IT environment).

  3. Workaround: Unfreeze the computer, delete the prematurely frozen profiles, have the student log in to recreate it using current default user settings, freeze the computer, to make the computer, 3 weeks before classes end…
  4. Solution: not sure I have one.
    1. Trying to have everything set up stably at term start is not the solution, but the problem.
    2. How can agility be increased?
      1. LRC assistants need to report problems. They may need better training to be aware of problems, and need an incentive to report problems, and a culture where reporting problems is not considered a problem in itself, but an achievement.
      2. The LRC lost its Symantec-Ghost imaging infrastructure which it could not only use for the lab PCs, but also to maintain 3 identical computers at its reception desk. This requirement for imaging was not considered during the recent upgrade of the labs imaging infrastructure, and we do not know how to get this capability back.
Categories: e-infrastructure, Reception-desk Tags: , , , ,

How to create screencasts of student presentations for the language learner ePortfolio in the digital audio lab

2013/11/08 Leave a comment

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  1. Students can now easily video-record their own screens during class presentations – not only when using PowerPoint; instead students could demo a website, like their Facebook page.
  2. Last year, we were limited to PowerPoint’s record slideshow with timing and narration feature, and either send the PPSX (small, but requires the PowerPoint viewer) or the “Save as” video (new in PowerPoint 2010; computing intensive and large file size).
  3. Now with MS-Community Clips, screencasts are
    1. minimal effort to create (keyboard shortcut WIN+ALT+R or T; save on desktop; drag/drop into Sanako homework folder)
    2. and little effort to distribute:
      1. Students could have uploaded to a Moodle’ file upload assignment (default file size limit: 64MB) or Kaltura file upload assignment (not sure whether there is a size limit). This seems more suitable for assignments with screencasts recordings.
      2. In this instance
        1. Sanako collected the Homework files to the Sanako share,
        2. my langlabemailer emailed them as attachment (so far tested to allow for 25MB attachment size, the equivalent of 7-8 minute screencast, a hefty space to fill in L2!  We also established: 45MB is too much… Smile)  to the originating student and teacher, for review, grading –
      3. and – provided it passes muster as an attractive and significant piece – possibly for re-use in the student’s language learner ePortfolio.
  4. In addition,
    1. Before the presentations, the teacher easily collaborated on proof-reading the slide decks of individual students, by using the Sanako Remote control screen sharing feature.
    2. During the presentation, students followed more closely – which seemed to increase their attention and comprehension -, thanks to audio and screen being shared to them from the presenter, using the Sanako’s  “Model student” feature.
Categories: Arabic, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, e-languages, English, eportfolio, Farsi, French, German, Greek (modern), Hindi, Italian, Japanese, learning-usage-samples, Mandarin, multimedia-recording, office-software, Portuguese, presentations, Presenter-Computer, Russian, Spanish, Speaking, Student-Computers Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

View a path to where you can start troubleshooting Pearson MyLanguageLab Wimba Voice Java

2013/11/06 Leave a comment

We used to do proctored LRC chapter exams using this textbook online component, but the Wimba Voice student recording tools stopped working, although a possible solution has been proposed with the problem report. This screencast  leads to an exercise where more testing (each supported browser will behave differently – this is Chrome) is possible::

Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, German, Glitches&Errors, Student-Computers, textbooks Tags: , , , ,