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How to make (and cancel) a room/resource booking without conflict by sending a meeting request from OWA and OUTLOOK–the ultimate training…
…using animated .gifs. Note the update for Outlook (desktop) users at the bottom. (Slower? Click the Links.)You can not only book lrcroomcoed434@uncc.edu like this, but any resource listed here.If you need the classroom repeatedly or other advanced features, read on.
To Book:
0.25sec,0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, , 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec. 1.5sec
To Cancel booking (why so?):
0.25sec,0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, , 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec. 
Both book and cancel booking: Compact: 0.25sec,0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, , 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec. 1.5sec
Or including unmarked frames: 0.25sec, 0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, 1.5sec, 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec.
And now in addition 2 screencasts (make/cancel reservation) for our OUTLOOK (desktop) users:
OneNote “absolutely loved by everyone who uses it” according to LifeHacker
Microsoft’s note-taking application OneNote is one of those apps no one really talks about much, but is absolutely loved by everyone who uses it. Heck, you guys even voted it your favorite outlining tool, personal project management tool, and minutes meeting service, not to mention third place for best note taking app. It’s available for a ton of platforms, too (despite it being part of Microsoft Office), so if you’re finding that Evernote just isn’t quite powerful enough for your organizational needs, give OneNote a shot—you might be surprised at everything it can do given its lesser-known status.” (Onenote makes #1 of Top 10 Underhyped Windows Apps, via OneNote Testing). Now how to spread that love?
Copy/paste meetings with resource mailboxes in Outlook on MS-Exchange 2010?
For schedules too complex to be managed in the repeating dialogue, why can I, in Outlook calendar, copy/paste meeting requests that include rooms into a new time slot, but while the new meeting appears immediately in my calendar, no update gets sent to the room unless I open the new meeting and click the button: “send” manually:
How students can record their picture or photo presentations with PowerPoint 2007
- On the ribbon:slideshow, click “record narration”,
- click “Change quality”,
- change the quality to 16Kbit from the default of 8kbit (which caused audio break-ups when I tested),
- click OK and present, using the headphones,
- then Save As / Show.
- You can easily use the saved file to e.g. upload the assignment to your teacher’s Moodle / File Upload Assignment.
How students can record their picture or photo presentations with PowerPoint 2010
- The screencast shows the necessary steps:
- inserting a photo album,
- presenting while recording the presentation with narration
- saving as a show (.ppsx) – make sure you have ribbon:”Slide show”/ “Play narrations” checked:
- to prepare an assignment for a Moodle single-file-upload (How a student takes a Moodle Simple file upload assignment).
A comparison of options for student oral photo presentation assignment
- Objective: Student presents personal photos in target language (e.g. home). b
- Contenders for Tools:
- Voicethread (free version)
- University-environment
- For Multimedia authoring:
- MS-PowerPoint
- not yet contenders
- MS-Community Clips (screen capture recording, to be installed)
- benefit: single purpose, record yourself talking while flipping through the images on your computer
- cost: new tool to learn, and no long term perspective
- Sanako Student Recorder: not a contender, it has subtitling options, but cannot author multimedia presentations (teachers used to with the Sanako authoring tool, but this is not longer supported).
- MS-Community Clips (screen capture recording, to be installed)
- As LMS: Moodle.
- For Multimedia authoring:
- Comparison:
- Student
- Authoring:
- (PowerPoint ties:) Image upload is easy in Voicethread (including batches):
, but PowerPoints Insert / Photo album is as fast (if you have digital photos). - Image narration:
- (PowerPoint ties:) Image upload is easy in Voicethread (including batches):
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Assignment submission: Voicethread (free) has no support for assignments, only for sharing. Students have to find a way to submit their Voicethread,
- either by email or invitation to pre-created contacts:
- or, – with higher initial setup cost, but greater reusability benefit – by invitation to a pre-created contact:
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- either by email or invitation to pre-created contacts:
- Sharing/peer-editing/grading:
- (Moodle would win where it has peer-grading options. YMMV:) Sharing within the class is possible, but sharing with "anyone" is a privacy (possibly FERPA) issue, and sharing with a handmade class list (no import) is tedious.
- Authoring:
- Teacher: grading
- Managing submissions
- (LMS wins?:) Voicethread (free) does not allow an export that could be uploaded to the LMS.
Student can email links or invitations like these: 
. It is up to you managing them, and completion of assignment and grading for the class. This is no LMS gradebook. - (Voicethread wins:) PowerPoint can be saved as a slideshow that starts on click (save as .ppsx) (including with narration). But opening and listening, without the need for saving to a local file, remains easier in Voicethread.
- (LMS wins?:) Voicethread (free) does not allow an export that could be uploaded to the LMS.
- (Voicethread wins:) Providing feedback is possible,
including oral 
– but is this insert recording? And providing editing access is not the default: 
- Record-keeping:
- (Moodle wins:) Voicethread: Uh.. oh..?! I see no retention story, especially not in the free version. With Moodle, you can leave all that to the institutional support.
- Managing submissions
- Student: receiving feedback
- (A tie:) Voicethread’s audio feedback versus Moodle/PowerPoints gradebook access.
- Learning curve:
- Voicethread has the advantage of being a specialized tool (relatively few options, still relatively simple interface – few distractions).
- Other tools have the advantage of greater familiarity in the long run and reusability. Of course it depends also where you are working: stable positions get greater benefit from embarking on the institutional environment.
- Student
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Summary: PowerPoint/Moodle remains the solution for the pedagogical task at hand that the LRC currently supports. Fortunately
- a narration of a picture presentation using PowerPoint and
- its submission by the student and grading by the teacher on the basis of a Moodle single file upload assignment are not too difficult.
How you can share MS-Office files via MS-OneNote instead of directly through MS-SkyDrive
- Simple steps:
- Drag and drop your MS-Office File to your MS-OneNote page.
- When prompted, choose to “insert a copy” (rather than merely linking the original file).
- This puts a copy of the file in the MS-OneNote folder on your local drive,
- which (file and folder) gets synched with your online (MS-SkyDrive) version,
- which, if you shared it, gets synched with the MS-OneNote folder on the local drive of the PC of the person you are sharing with,
- who, by double-clicking, can open and edit his synched local version of MS-Office file in the corresponding MS-Office application.
- Stepping back:
- Benefit: If you have a working MS-OneNote-based workflow, embedding MS-Office file can quickly extend this workflow.
- Risk: If you do not share the MS-OneNote with other editors, you should have no problem. Be aware, though, that concurrency is limited. Unlike accessing the MS-Office file in MS-Office through Office Web apps from MS-SkyDrive directly, editing the MS-Office file from MS-OneNote does not block updating the MS-Office file on remote computers – so expect synching conflicts later if you do not manage concurrency (e.g. by limiting editing sessions).
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