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How to batch-produce animated-GIFs in different speeds

2013/02/14 Leave a comment

As a little time saver, here is a program (64bit) that automates animated-GIF production with the free UnFreez (a bit hairy to control from AutoIT, hence the mouse-moves) for a dozen or so different speeds. Decompile if you need to adjust it, otherwise no AutoIT software is needed. All other prerequisites are  explained in the startup dialogue, rename the dummy output files to your liking.

Categories: compiledcode, e-infrastructure, service-is-learning-materials-creation, service-is-programming Tags: , ,

How to batch watermark your images for free with Irfanview

2013/02/13 Leave a comment

batch-watermarking

– just to be a bit more concise than this useful, but long post on yet another great feature of this free program (shout-out to Kai). Not shown here: after making your settings here, click button “Start batch”.

Categories: e-infrastructure, Screenshots, service-is-documenting Tags: , ,

Looking forward to the Digital Humanities Unconference at UNC Charlotte

2013/01/29 Leave a comment
  1. Why I come to THATCamp Piedmont:
    1. I am looking for practitioners of NLP in a language and literature teaching context since I am working on Using NLP tools to automate production and correction of interactive learning material  (presented at Calico 2012)
    2. for the Learning Exercise Creation Engines (presented at EUROCALL 2007) I developed.
  2. A little about myself:
    1. My Ph.D. thesis expanded the close reading of textual variants in the German editorial schools of Hans Zäch and the use of the computer-generated textual concordances in the interpretation and selection of textual variants into a corpus linguistic-inspired approach, that traced Leitmotifs in the work  (partially first digitized by myself) of the foremost Swiss-German classic as a digital corpus using Regular Expressions programming.
    2. I have since applied my corpus linguistic approach to
      1. the use of machine translation software
      2. the automation of learning material creation  (glossing, question generation, differentiation) on the basis of natural language processing of textual  (film subtitles, news) corpora.
Categories: announcements, conferences, e-languages, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Screencasts, service-is-learning-materials-creation, service-is-programming Tags:

How to set text-to-speech to a different language on LRC Windows XP computers

2013/01/29 Leave a comment

set-deskbot-text-to-speech-language-to-portuguese

Example for Portuguese – choose your own language instead.

Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, Screenshots, Speaking Tags: ,

Code documentation for a job ticket assignment and reporting application

2013/01/28 Leave a comment
  1. JobAssignments allows for managing job tickets with easy tagging and filtering of task assignments, and for aggregate analysis and reporting. 
  2. Originally developed only for simple tag aggregation reports (watch a demo), JobAssignments  can now also analyze the tag graph: jobassignments_tags_keyneighbours
  3. Click the table of contents on the right to browse the VBA documentation built with Aivosto.
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Categories: documentation, e-infrastructure, service-is-documenting, service-is-programming, service-is-project-managing, sourcecode Tags: , , , , ,

2012/3 enrolment per language in the main LRC constituent departments (LCS and ELTI)

2013/01/24 Leave a comment

excel-pivot-visualization-databars-conditional-formatting-report-express-student-enrollment

Categories: Analytics, audience-is-administration, Charts, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Metrics, reports, Spreadsheets, Visualizations Tags: , , , ,

LRC online language learning materials: the list

2013/01/17 2 comments

Below you can find a scrollable and searchable list of LRC learning materials in Moodle metacourses  (of which you can find a standalone list here).

You can filter this LRC Excel Web App using the column header dropdowns. You can click on the language in the leftmost column to go to your language’s metacourses and in its folders easily locate the resources in the right columns.

Languages that do not have their dedicated metacourse are LCTL/independent study and can be found in the LRC metacourse.

Note that the material you are looking for are not necessarily in this list, as there are other containers for language learning materials used on campus, including individual Moodle courses, textbook publisher applications, often based on Quia, like for Hybrid 1st-year Spanish, and the library ereserves.

Larger view here. UNCC-LRC Editors click here.

 

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, English, erepository, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Japanese, learning-materials, Mandarin, Metrics, Portuguese, Russian, Spreadsheets, Yoruba Tags: , , ,

How students can record their picture or photo presentations with PowerPoint 2010

2013/01/17 Leave a comment
  1. The screencast shows the necessary steps:
    1. inserting a photo album,
    2. presenting while recording the presentation with narration
    3. saving as a show (.ppsx) – make sure you have ribbon:”Slide show”/ “Play narrations” checked: image
  2. to prepare an assignment for a Moodle single-file-upload (How a student takes a Moodle Simple file upload assignment).
Categories: Arabic, assignments, audience-is-students, documentation, e-languages, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek (modern), Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Mandarin, multimedia-recording, office-software, Polish, Portuguese, recording-software, Russian, Screencasts, service-is-applying-learning-tools, Spanish, Speaking, Swahili, Yoruba Tags: , ,