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MS Project training notes

2006/12/15 Leave a comment

screencast ms-project training

  • Course is about setting up a project, not tracking (but beginnings will be covered)
  • file menu
    • save as: e.g. webpage
  • edit
    • undo: only 1 undo level
    • tasks
      • split
  • view
  • calendar
    • :base calendar: tools / options
    • tools / change calendar [how does this relate?]
      • these are company holidays
      • can it load holidays like outlook – yes, from project central server
      • attach the calendar to the project: project / project information
        • many projects are built from finish date, but that leaves no slack time
  • tasks pane
    • used only with project central server?
  • tool bars
    • standard
    • format
    • ask pane
    • project: quicker ways than that
  • insert subtasks
    • simply press insert key to insert rows
    • 0 duration = milestone (can also have a milestone with a duration)
  • constraints
    • difference between a deadline and a constraint: deadline is less important
  • review
    • start
      • project start date: menu / project:
      • calendars:
        • base calendar = tools / options / calendar
        • project calendar  = tools / change working time / new
        • assign / attach that project calendar to the project:  menu: project: project information
        • show holidays on Gantt chart: context menu: Gantt chart: nonworking time (option: in front of the taskbars: interrupts the taskbars)
      • recurring tasks: menu: insert: recurring task
      • set duration: d = day, m = minute, mo = month, w = week
      • creating link relation ships
        • visually by dragging tasks onto each other in the Gantt chart
        • writing in field predecessors (sf is default, s=stat, f=finish, relation ship), -lag and +lead time
        • constraints and deadlines
    • resources
      • types
        • WORK: REUSABLE
        • MATERIAL: CONSUMABLE
      • groups
        • teams
        • internal or external
        • suppliers
      • max units
        • e.g. FULL TIME OR HALF TIME PERSON
  • last hour
    • resources – critical (overrun) tasks
      • reallocating resources to reduce slack and slippage
    • baseline
      • set: menu: tools / tracking / baseline
      • in the Gantt chart, the blackline is the baseline
    • tracking
      • recommended to always display the tracking toolbar
    • reports
      • menu: view / reports
  • Outlook: level 2 training
    • tracking
      • split task
      • update task
    • customization (views, reports, filters)
    • master projects
    • resource pools
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Protected: Course series on 20th century cultural history based on “100 deutsche Jahre” documentaries

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Categories: e-languages, German, learning-usage-samples, Slideshows Tags: , , , , ,

Collaborative timeline activity for face-to-face classes on history

2006/03/15 Leave a comment
  1. An easily produced and repeated classroom activity, originally developed for listening comprehension and speaking practice in  language classes, based on filling out collaboratively a timeline spreadsheet in the digital audio lab:
    1. Listen and process/write:
      1. Advanced German class listens to segments of an authentic German cultural history documentary from the authentic German TV series “100 deutsche Jahre” (which follows a single topic throughout 20th century German history).
      2. And each student enters notable summaries of events with their time of occurrence into a spreadsheet
      3. that the teacher
      4. has at beginning of activity distributed to each individual student using the digital audio labs file management features
      5. and after listening collects from students, merges, either with student author data or an anonymous student identifier (for corrections), into an excel timeline spreadsheet
      6. and visualizes the collaborative outcome as an easily collated timeline on the projector to the entire class.
    2. Speaking: Discuss!
      1. Identify what are the gravity points for the comprehension of the video by the class: Why are these events deemed important?
      2. What are the outliers? Criticism? Justification?
      3. Also correct language errors in the  student output.
    3. nexus_timeline_excel_100_deutsche_jahre
      1. In early 2006, there was no Excel web app – collaboration likely has become simpler now
        1. launch link to publically editable spreadsheet to class
        2. visualize using excel web app charts
Categories: Charts, classroom-activities, digital-humanities, German, learning-materials, Listening, Speaking Tags: , , ,