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You can get the LRC’s keyboard shortcuts to write foreign language characters automatically installed on your home or office PC …
..if you click on Microsoft’s FixIt here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560 (’nuff said elsewhere about US International keyboard layout) . Our British Friends seem to still type French, German, and Spanish accents the old tedious way. Maybe they find it too difficult to install the MS UK-International keyboard layout which takes care of most accents in all languages that use a Roman alphabet. I wish I could recommend them also a Microsoft FixIt installer which automatically enables the UK "international" keyboard layout option built-in to Windows. However, the FixIt version automated enablement seems only available for US International, not for UK international. If you want US International without manually configuring it (interactive video) , take advantage of MS FixIt by clicking here.
Text messaging in class using Sanako Study 1200
Students click: 
– Tutors click: 
. Stop endless spelling out of URL’s or queuing with raised hands during class. Your students will 
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How a teacher can see student computer screens in Sanako Study 1200–the ultimate training summary
How to resolve “WinAlign export files cannot be migrated because your User ID has not been specified”
- Steps to replicate:
- in Winalign window:
- menu:file / export file pair
- dialogue: “export file pair to file”, choose an name and format: text,
- wait for “export”dialogue to disappear;
- in SDL Trados Studio 2009,
- left menu pane: “translation memories”, menu button”:”open translation memories”,dialogue:”menu button: “open document”, choose the source text document, in dialogue:”open document”, dropdown: “target language”,
- dropdown: “target language”, select yours
- dropdown”: add”: “file-based translation memory”
- open dialogue:”file-based translation memory”, select exported text file;
- Error pops up:
- in Winalign window:
- Resolution: follow the instructions in the error dialogue.
- Bonus points for knowing that “translator’s workbench” is a legacy application and accessible only through SDL Trados Studio 2007: open this from the start menu.
- In the left pane, click to open “Translator’s workbench”:
- Give your username:
- Test: on your next try, you will get past the error into upgrade converting your winalign-exported text file into TMX:
What does your computerized classroom look like to you?
Language Lab: Silly fun for crash test dummies, or were you hoping to get there faster than on foot?
What does your computerized classroom feel like?
Language lab: You can get there fast, but only if you know how to land, not crash.
Voyant-tools.org
Neat encounter at the ThatCamp2013 Digital Humanities Unconference at UNCC today. Certainly a simplification over Wordsmith tools. That’s all the reviewing I have time for right now. 
LRC training animated-gifs
- This link gives you a nice overview list of the LRC animated gif’s for training.
- Chrome users need to install this first, still can view get only a subset.
- Neither Chrome nor Firefox offer a search-within like Internet Explorer.
- They are meant for display on the left lrc teacher station screen.
- whether you display them as student training material on the projector
- or display them as guidance for yourself
- Did you miss something?
- The animated gif’s cycle in an infinite loop. Just wait for the next round.
- If you want to restart the video now, press F5 or click the Refresh button
in your browser address bar. - Or use one of the slower speed videos I made.
- I also made clickable versions that you can hand-browse (more control. More effort also).
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Test the Sanako Installer, Webbrowser Popup Konfigurator for XP, or Windows7, faster LRC TeacherPC Log-in Let MS facilitate diacritics writing by installing for you US-International keyboard layout
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