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How to record your speech with Audacity

2012/01/11 plagwitz Leave a comment

For a cut-and-dry recording session, the LRC has a simple instruction on
1. Recording_an_MP3_Audio_File_Using_Audacity_in_the_LRC here.
2. Uploading an mp3 recording into a Moodle Forum here.
For more advanced editing with Audacity, I have a detailed screencast here.

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-languages, lms, Screencasts, Screenshots, service-is-learning-materials-creation, software Tags: audacity, audio, moodle, recording

How to make changes to a meeting request to update/alter a reservation

2012/01/10 plagwitz 2 comments

You can easily release a reservation of an LRC room or resources, completely or partially (e.g. some of the time when you return an item earlier than anticipated), from your calendar in OWA/NINERMAIL:
By opening the meeting request
1. In (staff:)OWA,
2. go to your calendar
3. find and open your meeting
4. make changes to the meeting, e.g. start and end time
5. click “Send Update”
6. (students:)NINERMAIL: looks like you have to cancel the meeting and recreate it with new times. This may change once we get the calendars used by students set up to autoaccept.
More conveniently, without opening:
1. right-click on and choose delete the appointment (if necessary, the system is smart enough to ask you whether you want to delete an entire series of appointments or only this occurrence; on cancelling, see also here).
2. Or to release the reservation partially (= reduce the time), drag the upper or lower margin to the new desired start or end time.
3. If you are working with a meeting request (which by definition has more than the organizer as participants, unlike appointments you make for yourself on your calendar; be wary of making changes to meeting requests which you are not the organizer of (= you did not initially create the meeting request)), the system offers you – and should should accept – to notify the other participants automatically.
4. Which in this case is not a person, but only (unless other people have been included in the resource booking which can be done) a resource mailbox which, if configured to autoaccept, may still respond to you like so, in this case with an acceptance, since you can not cause a conflict when releasing a resource that had been reserved for you):
6. This also only affects the occurrence you are currently working with, as you can see from the stricken-out recurrence icon that results:
7. This flexibility is one of the main reasons (= better resource utilization) why we introduced this system: so that users who want to visit the LRC with their class/borrow a resource on short (often happens, depending on pedagogy, with a couple off days or less ) notice don’t have to be turned away with no good reason.
8. Just do not try updating from the publically viewable web calendars, those are for “view”-ing only, including by students:

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-manager, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers Tags: 2007, 2010, 2011, calendaring, live@edu, ms-exchange, outlook, outlook-live, scheduling

Transcribe sounds into Arabic letters on the web using Yamli

2012/01/06 plagwitz Leave a comment

How do you compare this to Microsoft Maren and Google Arabic keyboard input?

Categories: Absolute-Beginner, Advanced, Arabic, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, Beginner, e-languages, Intermediate, mental-notes, Uncategorized, websites, Writing Tags: yamli

Calendaring: How to view all your Moodle course assignments in Ninermail, OWA or MS-Outlook – Shortest

2012/01/05 plagwitz 3 comments

Start in Moodle here, then do steps –1 to 2. Open NINERMAIL, continue with steps 1 to 8:

Want a longer step-by-step?

Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, documentation, lms, Screenshots, step-by-step-guides Tags: calendaring, FAQs, moodle, ms-outlook, OWA

Meeting Requests in OWA – from the source

2011/12/22 plagwitz 1 comment

The Scheduling Assistant

Add or Remove Attendees

Select a Meeting Room

Reply To or Forward a Meeting Request

And more: http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/bb899488.aspx

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-infrastructure, service-is-library Tags: 2007, 2010, 2011, calendaring, FAQs, live@edu, ms-exchange, outlook, outlook-live, resources

Language tutoring support in the LRC

2011/12/20 plagwitz Leave a comment

New and improved as of Spring 2012: We now have 2 computerized small group work spaces for tutoring groups.
An effective computerized help desk
A live CAE tutor calendar display. This will help the time zone-challenged students until all students are put into the right time zone in NINERMAIL (or self-help). At that point all students will be able to load the tutor calendar of their choice in NINERMAIL. The tutor calendar has also “LRC” in the title – this way students always are reminded WHERE the tutoring is. We are also working on getting small group workspaces set up in the entrance library area to the left.
Improved tutor signage
A variety of non-computerized tutoring workspaces
A variety of computerized tutoring workspaces that allow the tutoring to share with other uses of the LRC.
As listed in this view when you enter the LRC:

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, service-is-tutoring Tags: calendaring, NINERMAIL

How to check if components of Shotgun Microphones (05-08) are complete

2011/12/20 plagwitz Leave a comment

Use this list:

micro
seat1
seat2
cable1
cable2
adapter1/4”
windshield

Or use the illustration from the microphone package:

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, documentation, e-infrastructure, Film-studies, service-is-library Tags: audio-technica-atr6550

How to check if components of Microphone Boom pole (01-04) are complete

2011/12/20 plagwitz Leave a comment

Boom
Adapter for microphone holder. To change the screw size to that of the microphone holder you have , you can unscrew the adapter and turn it around – however, do not lose it!