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Japanese Language Tools (Proofing, dictionary, furigana) in the LRC MS-Office 2010 installation

2013/09/30 Leave a comment
  1. Even if not showing in MS-Word’s Language selector),
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  2. Even though there is no Japanese Thesaurus: clip_image003
  3. There are these tools:
    1. In the Research pane, "English Assistance: Japanese"  (in the ribbon / "Review" tab, Proofing section, press the clip_image004 , then  ALT-Click a character to start a lookup: 
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    3. a Japanese  Consistency Checker:clip_image006
    4. Furigana:
      1. To enable: clip_image007
      2. Result (in view / Web layout):  clip_image008
      3. Incidentally, my blog has not quite made it into the TOP 5 of MSW-Office help content: clip_image009
  4. In addition, for Office, but also beyond, there are the tools of the MS-Office Input method editor (which include dictionary help when you write): clip_image010
Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, Dictionaries, e-languages, Japanese, Listening-Stations, LRCRoomCoed434, office-software, Presenter-Computer, Reading, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, small-group-work-spaces, Student-Computers, Writing Tags: , ,

Protected: Many input languages, keyboards and IMEs requested are not accessible to most LRC users

2013/08/28 Enter your password to view comments.

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Categories: all-languages, audience-is-IT-staff, e-languages, Glitches&Errors, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Presenter-Computer, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, Student-Computers, Writing Tags: , , ,

WordSmith Tools are once again not licensed

2013/08/28 Leave a comment
  1. StartingWordsmith from the desktop shortcut results in this: image
  2. Didn’t I test and describe last summer  how to fix this?
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, Corpus-linguistics, e-languages, Glitches&Errors, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging, software, Translation Tags: ,

How to speed up jumping around YouTube videos in class with YouTubeCenter

2013/08/27 Leave a comment
  1. Problem: When you use – that is to say: analyze – YouTube video clips in a classroom setting – whether in Film studies or second language acquisition classes –, you will find yourself jumping around a lot in these clips. This can be slow and enter a lot of undesirable little interruptions into your teaching (or learning) flow.
  2. Root cause: Since pedagogical use is not the primary use case for YouTube videos, their download configuration defaults to streaming, which preloads the video only a few seconds ahead of the cursor or playhead.
  3. Solution:
      1. If you want to buffer or preload the entire YouTbue video clip before examining it in your class, you can install a browser add-on called YouTubeCenter.
      2. Here is more on how to install YouTubeCenter.
      3. No configuration necessary, ”Dash Playback” which buffers videos completely locally, is the default setting.
Categories: all-languages, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-learning, Film-studies, service-is-configuring-learning-tools Tags: ,

YouTube Center, a power user extension for your video usage in class

2013/08/27 Leave a comment
  1. YouTubeCenter comes for a variety of browsers, but note that Firefox seems the only practically supportable browser in our campus computing environment.
  2. To download and install, go to : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-center/ and click on:image
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  6. There is not shortage of settings (e.g. preselected is the Dash Playback, useful to speed up jumping around a video, by disabling streaming):  image
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Categories: all-languages, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, Film-studies, reviews, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, software-old, web-browsers, websites Tags: ,

Protected: Why requiring manual configuration of the Sanako by students does not work for us

2013/08/20 Enter your password to view comments.

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Categories: audience-is-administration, audience-is-IT-staff, digital-audio-lab, e-languages, Glitches&Errors, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Presenter-Computer, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging, Student-Computers Tags: ,

LRC hosts help desk for students to register on their McGraw-Hill Connect online textbook website

2013/08/17 Leave a comment

This special Help desk will be sign-posted in the LRC on the day of the events. For now, consult the calendar of the iMacsand Group Room1, 2 (see https://thomasplagwitz.com/2012/11/04/how-to-view-lrc-hoursevents/).Here is the documentation:

Categories: announcements, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-training, textbooks, websites Tags:

Workaround for Sanako study 1200 tutor v7 window limitations

2013/08/06 Leave a comment
  1. Problem: Window maximizes only to size of,and location defaults to, primary screen. This is now on windows7.
  2. Workaround: make the screen whose size you desire the primary (and live with the side effects).
  4. Downside:
      1. Screencast recordings of instruction won’t work: Community Clips  can only  record the primary screen, which is not the screen displayed to students during regular teaching. Windows Media Encoder does not work with our non-standard dual screen configuration on Windows7.
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