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New Teacher MAC Computer in Coed037 with Final Cut Pro 3
2011/10/26
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- A new Mac Mini on the teacher podium was installed today in Coed037.
- Because of case size difference, the new Mac Mini had to be installed on the right side wall of the podium, unlike the old one which was smaller and fit on the keyboard tray.
- It is still switched through the podium as before:
- For logging in, use the generic, not your personal account.
- Standard current ITS MAC image.
- Final Cut Pro 3
- was installed into the image, and run.
- Media components (Audio content, Motion content) allegedly have also been included in this install.
- We also added MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2. Note, however, that the non-beta version does not have the YouTube.com download capability mentioned here earlier (you will get this error more focused):
- Because of podium monitor incompatibility, we could not increase the screen resolution to the minimum 1280*800 required Final Cut Studio 3.
We nevertheless were able to start Final Cut pro. You can permanently bypass this warning dialog if you see it, and report problems. 
- Because of podium monitor incompatibility, we could not increase the screen resolution to the minimum 1280*800 required Final Cut Studio 3.
- We also permanently bypassed this firewire error:
- And here is the result:
LRC assistant responsibilities: A checklist (on reception desk next to your screen)
2011/10/26
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For larger view, click “Full screen”windows in lower right corner. Mote that the sheet with LRC assistant responsibilities is handily posted right under your screen at your work station – refer to it as needed,
Sample of how students use the foreign language TTS (text-to-speech) in the LRC
2011/10/21
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Last week, I noticed this student in the LRC working on a speaking assignment in her SLA class. First, she wrote a draft of her presentation. She then had the Deskbot TTS wizard (in the lower right of her screen) read out the draft to her. She recorded her version, modeling after the Deskbot’s pronunciation. Then she had the Deskbot read out the draft again, to compare with her own recording.
Look for the little guy in the lower right corner of the screen with the cartoon bubble over his head.
I favor the use of the Deskbot TTS (a Windows XP technology) as an easily accessible speaking dictionary, including during face-to-face teaching, when students may otherwise be too shy to make an utterance because they are not sure about the pronunciation of a single word, or even ask the teacher to pronounce it for them. Prosodically, the deskbot TTS leaves many things to be desired. Let’s hope that Windows 7 will enable us to set up more advanced TTS support in the LRC.
How to use the online Portuguese pronunciation help to generate phonetic alphabet transcriptions and text-to-speech
2011/10/20
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- Go to http://www.co.it.pt/~labfala/g2p/
- Write or paste your text into the textbox:“Grafemas”
- Choose your preferred phonetic alphabet (IPA, SAMPA) and other options.
- Press button: “Converter” to see results.
- Press button: “Sintetizar” to hear results.
- Like so:
- Or click here to view a demo (requires Windows Media Player) with audio (download requires Windows Media Player). Our example was:
- Input: Tudo bem? É o jeitinho brasileiro. Oí, árbitro! Cadê o penalty? Não, não posso faze-lo.
- Output: tˈudu bɐ̃ĩ ˈɛ u ʒɐitˈiɲu bɾɐzilˈɐiɾu oˈi ˈaɾbitɾu kɐdˈe u pˈenalti nˈɐ̃ũ nˈɐ̃ũ pˈɔsu fˈazɘlu
LRC Assistant Start of Year Training: The Screencast
2011/10/19
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Click here to view a sample LRC assistant training presentation.
How to link screencasts from MS-SkyDrive
2011/10/19
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- I am trying to replace – in the routine cases that do not need post-editing, but where speed is of the essence – my practice to post-process my screencasts in MS-Expression Encoder (installed on one machine only) and upload the result with a page to load a Silverlight Control – all hosted on my MS-Windows Azure portfolio.
- Much easier and quicker would it be to store screencasts in MS-SkyDrive (mapping to drives in MS-Windows enables a more robust drag and drop than the still browser-specific web version on live.com), and top take advantage the embed links provided.
- Unfortunately, WordPress.com, my blogging platform, does not support iframes with videos from MS-SkyDrive.
- However, by linking to the URL in the embed code, to open in a new window (with the inelegant instruction to “click on the thumbnail that opens”; if it loads slow, the thumbnail ALT displays essentially the same),:
- I can get the user to an MS- Silverlight control which loads:
- and plays the video:
- more user-friendly and robustly (This has been tested to work on MS-Windows 7 with IE9 and Firefox 3.6) than distributing the bare WMVs of my screencasts directly.
How to make a screenshot of your computer screen
2011/10/18
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- You can look it up, or:
- on Windows, press the “PrintScr” key (upper right corner of your keyboard)
- on Mac OS X, Command+Shift+3.
- Then paste the clipboard into an application that can handle images and that you are familiar with (your best bet may be MS-Word).
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