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How to use the MS-Office Labs Community Clips Screen Capture Tool

2012/05/31 7 comments
  1. I seem to remember this initiative of having MS-Office users sharing tips and tricks using screencasts has been faded out – but the screen capture tool is still available, and it is not restricted to recording MS-Office applications.
  2. After download and install (here on Windows 7), image
  3. click the community clips system tray icon to easily start a screen capture: image
  4. Or access the context menu with advanced options: image
  5. including restricting recording to specific windows:
  6. image
  7. It does not start up very fast: image
  8. It flashes a frame around the recorded area.
  9. This is a test…
  10. clip_image001
  11. image
  12. image
  13. The preview starts automatically: image
  14.   About the file quality: image
  15. Both the save and the email option imagework, only the built-in upload fails, likely due to the demise of MS-Soapbox: image, but can be easily uploaded to other services, e.g. MS-SkyDrive
  16. Unfortunately, like the Windows Media Encoder clips, it won’t preview without download on SkyDrive – unlike the (newer) MS-PowerPoint 2010-recorded screencasts: image
  17. Still, the MS-Office Labs Community Clips Screen Capture Tool seems to have a friendlier interface than Windows Media Encoder, and is as free.
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, multimedia-recording, service-is-documenting, service-is-learning-materials-creation, software, Student-Computers Tags:

Error code 14001 when installing Audacity

2012/04/27 5 comments
  1. Symptom: Audacity installation seems to complete without error, but attempting to start Audacity at the end of the installation process results in an error about bad environment with the above error code.
  2. For your reference: It is has been the missing Visual C++ redistributable installation here in the past on staff computers.
  3. Solution: Download and install the redistributable, then try restarting Audacity: It should start now.
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, multimedia-recording, service-is-documenting, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging Tags:

Download WordPress blog post overview into Excel table

2012/03/15 Leave a comment

See what I mean: Downloading and browsing the full content XML is of course more powerful than this.

Categories: blog, documentation, Screencasts, service-is-documenting Tags: ,

Protected: Moodle streaming video recording assignment glitches 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8: A running log

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Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-languages, Glitches&Errors, iMacs, Learning-logs, lms, multimedia-recording, service-is-documenting Tags: , , , , ,

Wimba Classroom –> Saba Centra: A running log

2012/02/15 Leave a comment
  1. http://teaching.uncc.edu/ctl-blog/centra-classroom-replace-wimba
  2. As this pertains to the LRC, more info will be posted here, as it becomes available, and issues and resolutions, as they come up.
Categories: Distance-education-format-is-Synchronous, e-learning, lms, service-is-documenting, service-is-project-managing, web-conferencing Tags: ,

LRC demo, troubleshooting and debugging screencasts

2012/02/07 Leave a comment
  1. The LRC student PC image contains a file C:\temp\screencastfullhighaudio.wme
  2. Doubleclick or run the file, in the encoder window that comes up, click the green menu button to record your screen.
  3. When done demonstrating on screen, swtich back to the encoder window and click the red button to stop recording.
  4. Rename and archive (the student hard drive is “frozen”) the screencast video output file which you will find in c:\temp\screencast.wmv.
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, e-infrastructure, Presenter-Computer, service-is-documenting, Student-Computers Tags: , ,

LRC Outlook/Exchange 2010 Resource Calendaring: How to alter meeting times in OWA

2012/01/23 Leave a comment
  1. If you are the meeting organizer (you initiated the meeting request), in your NINERMAIL/OWA calendar, just click on the meeting and drag the meeting start and/or end time with your left mouse button in the desired new location (works like in Outlook), and send updates (this will not affect for the series of a recurring meeting, only the current occurence): CIMG0127
  2. If you are not the meeting organizer, the meeting organizer, when requesting a meeting with you, may have allowed you to “Request a new time”: use the corresponding button (screenshots are for Outlook):
    1. in the meeting request: outlook-meeting-request-response-propose-new-time-from-calendar-item-menu-context-menu-does-not-have-this-option.
  3. or in the calendar item context menuresponse-propose-new
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, office-software, service-is-documenting Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

How to batch convert image files with IrfanView

2012/01/11 Leave a comment
  1. Had to make a large number of screenshots recently without being able to set the most convenient file format.
  2. Fortunately, IrfanView has powerful conversion options:
  3. irfanview-batch
  4. and makes batch-converting easy:irfanview-batch2
  5. Limitation: IrfanView uses only one processor core here (Windows7 home): irfanview-batch3
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, e-infrastructure, service-is-documenting, software Tags: , ,