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How to check if components of Canon camera (01-10) are complete

2011/12/19 Leave a comment
  1. Battery
  2. Battery Charger
  3. AV cable – FIREWIRE cables for transferring video are not included, we do not have enough. Use in the LRC only.canon-zr-800-CIMG0002 (2)
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How to book LRC resources – explained in one screenshot

2011/12/02 3 comments

You can come to the LRC reception desk to book an item  (you will still need to log into your NINERMAIL). But you can also self-help, and get immediate confirmation, from any device with access to your NINERMAIL:

If you have a basic LRC classroom booking scenario, send to the room lrcroomcoed434@uncc.edu what looks like “an email that includes times”: Go to your Ninermail inbox.  Using the little triangle icon,  unfold the “New” menu.  Click menu item “Meeting request”.  In the window, that opens, in the “Resources:” field, put lrcroomcoed434@uncc.edu.  In the “Subject:”, put your course number. Enter start and end times of your classes visit.  In the upper left, Click “Send”.  Within a few seconds  you receive a response email from the room in OWA: If you did not check the “Scheduling Assistant” tab, you may be asked to reschedule because of a conflict. If you fail to get a response,  something went wrong, did you mistype the address? OWA remembers and suggests it after first use, but the first time you need to get it right.

For more advanced scenarios (beyond #3 below), first find the email address of our bookable resources, then book it like so:

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More on repeating/recurrence here.

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How to stay up to date by receiving RSS like email newsletters in MS-Outlook

2011/11/21 Leave a comment
  1. Why subscribe?
    1. RSS is a great way to get your information both fast and filtered.
    2. For advanced filtering of RSS feeds, try Yahoo Pipes.
    3. However, WordPress makes this even easier by allowing for a wealth of atomic searching and filtering options. Choosing the right template (and content strategy), if you click on any of the linked items in either the category list or tag cloud on WordPress,
    4. wordpress-category-listwordpress-tag-cloud
    5. the resulting page will include an RSS link wordpress-rss-link, or simply add “/feed” to the URL of your category, tag or even search result page, to get a feed  that you can subscribe to.
  2. How to subscribe?
    1. MS-Outlookmakes subscribing to RSS more convenient since you do not need to go to a separate application like an RSS-Reader. Read your RSS with your email, think of the RSS feed as an email list, but personalized to your interests.
      1. You can subscribe to the “RSS feed” link like so: outlook how to subscribe to an rrs feed
      2. For historical reasons, I still use Google Reader, but I rely on Outlook’s advanced automated content download (including full text posts and multimedia attachments) and well-understood archiving, search and export features to not miss podcasts which I want to collect for potential use as teaching content: rss-outlook-feed When Outlook fails, as with some RSS formats, you can still try and resort to the Internet Explorer Feed store: rss-internet-explorer-feed
    2. If you use OWA: you can read feeds, but not add them through the OWA interface. If you are staff, you can still add them in Outlook first. If you are a student and restricted to NINERMAIL, you need to use a different feed reader. I recommend the free web-based Google Reader.
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Calendaring: How to view all your Moodle course assignments in Ninermail, OWA or MS-Outlook – Short version

2011/11/21 2 comments
  1. In Moodle:
    1. With Firefox (3.6 here), go to Moodle Calendar: https://moodle.uncc.edu/calendar/view.php?view=upcoming&course=1 
    2. Right-Click on iCal and choose “Copy Shortcut”: moodle-calendar-firefox
  2. In Ninermail/OWA: click “Calendar”, right-click “My calendars” , click “Add calendar’, click radio-button “From internet”, paste URL you put in clipboard into textbox, click button “OK”, right-click calendar added, click “rename” and call it “Moodle” moodle-calendar-OWA-subscribing renaming
  3. Alternatively, in Outlook Desktop: go to “calendars”, right-click “shared calendars” , click “add calendar’, click “from internet”, paste URL you put in clipboard into textbox, click button “OK”, right-click calendar added, click “rename” and call it “Moodle”moodle-calendar-outlook-2010-subscribing1
  4. Want a longer explanation?
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How to use the online Spanish pronunciation help to generate phonetic alphabet transcriptions and text-to-speech

2011/11/18 Leave a comment
  1. Go to http://showroom.daedalus.es/es/tecnologias-de-la-lengua/phonetictrans/phonetictrans.php, enter your text, select your phonetic symbol set:
  2. spanish-text2phonetic-alphabet-daedalus
  3. Unlike with the Portuguese help, there is no text-to-speech option here.
Categories: Advanced, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, Beginner, e-languages, Intermediate, learning-materials, Spanish, Speaking, websites Tags: , ,

Troubleshooting the wireless headsets in the TV viewing area

2011/11/18 Leave a comment
  1. For lack of small group work areas, the 3 headsets help sharing the LRCROOMCOED433. They amplify the sound for the TV viewing audience, allowing to turn the TV volume down so as not to disturb other users in the shared area.
  2. No sound?
    1. headsets turned on?
    2. headset volume turned up?
    3. headsets batteries dead?
    4. transmitter turned on?
  3. Static noise on headsets?
    1. headsets batteries weak?
    2. no line of sight to transmitter?
  4. Other things you can try:
      1. a different headset. We have 3.
      2. a different transmitter. We have 2.
  5. An image says more than 1000 words:
    1. CIMG0005 
    2. CIMG0004
    3. unisar-tv777-03
    4. unisar-tv777-05
    5. unisar-tv777-04unisar-tv777-01
    6. unisar-tv777-02
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Web-based romanized letters to Cyrillic transliteration tool.

2011/11/16 Leave a comment
  1. Our Russian tutor uses this transliteration tool HTTP://TRANSLIT.RU which allows for phonetic input on a keyboard that does not have Cyrillic letters and seems popular with native speakers of languages written in Cyrillic.
  2. As so often, that implies: not designed for language learners. The explanation attests to that: translit_info
Categories: Advanced, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, Intermediate, Russian, websites, Writing Tags: ,

Calendaring: How to view all your Moodle course calendars in one place (like live@edu, Google calendar or MS-Outlook)

2011/11/16 Leave a comment
  1. UPDATE: this does work, just make sure to give it some time to update AND to have actual appointments in the time window (length of that window is a setting you can change in Moodle) that you are trying to display.
  2. Static inclusion of syllabus deadlines in your calendar
    1. Go to your Moodle Course / “Go to calendar…” / select from dropdown: “Upcoming Events”:   “All courses”/ click on “Export Calendar/iCal. Open with MS-Outlook (fails in IE8).
    2. Here is showing how: screencast demo loading Moodle’s iCal into MS-Outlook (desktop).
    3. This is a static export of all your Moodle calendar information – taught and enrolled courses combined  (despite image_thumb showing in each of your courses. The dropdown: “Upcoming Events” does default to the current course, though).
    4. The utility of this (= what “all” comprises, and how helpful the event information is) depends on how the course designers use the Moodle calendar functionality – or allow Moodle to do it for them: For setting a start/end (= deadline) for any assignment or assessment automagically adds this event to the Moodle course calendar.
  3. A potentially even more useful dynamic subscription(that will reflect late-breaking changes, like extended deadlines in your courses or additional assignments)
    1. you can get if you right click on image_thumb2 and choose “Copy link” from the context menu.
    2. I have not found a way to feed the Moodle iCal link manually into MS-Outlook 2010 (Shared Calendars / Add Calendar / From Internet) or OWA (different problem comes and goes. Just subscribe while problem is gone Smile). In MS-Outlook, you can subscribe to this link via menu:tools / tab:internet calendars / button: new / dialogue new internet calendar subscription / paste the URL you copied. moodle-calendar-outlook-2010-subscri[1]
    3. Don’t forget to rename your calendar to something more useful than the default, like “My classes”, by right-clicking and choosing “Rename”in OWA or “Properties” in Outlook2010.
    4. moodle-calendar-outlook-2010-subscri[3]moodle-calendar-outlook-2010-subscri[2]
    5. Your syllabus deadlines are now always only two clicks away in your Ninermail:
      1. click on “Calendar”
      2. click on checkbox “Moodle”.
  4. What seems not possible with any current version of Moodle is editing/updating your calendar in MS-Outlook and having the changes synch with Moodle, or any import actually – only the opposite direction works. So the tool is more useful for students (who don’t need to edit) than teachers (but still a nice aggregator of teaching information for the latter).
  5. More on Calendar you can find in the official 1.9 Moodle calendar doc and FAQ.
  6. I would prefer to use other calendaring software, but the export options of the Moodle (1.9 and 2.)) calendars are limiting. So I also find myself adjusting the settings when using the Moodle calendar:

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  1. Adjusting these settings may also fix the following error in OWA which reads like ICS link is invalid/broken, but may only mean that no events where returned for the time window that Moodle defaults to (with performance reasons, which, however, does not apply if Moodle does not have to return *any* events to your request).  In other words: Try expanding the time window for events, e.g. to include the full term.moodle-calendar-owa-subscribing3
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