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Our Clickers: Software and Hardware

2013/09/10 Leave a comment
  1. The clickers come with software (PPT Add-In) that allows teachers to integrate simple interactivity (multiple choice questions etc.) into their slide decks.
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  2. The following teacher-hardware allows the teacher to present their interactive slide deck in the classroom and aggregate and display (for discussion and adaptive teaching) the student responses CAM01079CAM01083CAM01084CAM01086
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How to easily avoid “Death by PowerPoint” and focus audience attention by showing paragraphs 1-by-1

2013/09/10 Leave a comment
  1. Open the Slide Master (“menu:View”/ “Slide Master”), then make these changes: image
  2. Close the Slide Master, for the change to affect all your slides from now on (without you having to add animations for each paragraph individually).
    1. We only did the master for the main layout. I f you want to have the effect on all slide layouts, keep adding animations like shown above.
    2. If you want to remove this effect, you can go into the master slide as shown and delete the animations in the animation pane.
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The Scheduling Assistant is simply multiple calendars displayed as parallel timelines for easier comparison

2013/09/09 Leave a comment
  1. We are all conversant in reading a daily – like here for the classroom-, weekly or monthly calendar sheet: image
  2. If you send a Meeting  request to the classroom to book it, the Scheduling Assistant displays exactly the same free/busy information  for the classroom.
    1. Same pattern of events as above: image
    2. Except that it is folded from a calendar into a timeline format (and in OWA does not display text explanatory beyond with what/whom the room is busy).
    3. This timeline format may be less familiar, but is much more practical to compare the availability for the multiple participants of a meeting.
  3. Compare here: Same pattern for the room booking on both views.
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Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure Tags: , , , , , , ,

Our Clickers

2013/09/09 Leave a comment
  1. If teachers bring you tools like the ones below – this is the teacher-portion hardware of the UNCC clickers. There is more information about campus clickers here and here, and live troubleshooting support via x75500:

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Clinic on PowerPoint for teaching presentations

2013/09/09 Leave a comment
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How to work around a possible bug of Sanako Study 1200 collecting student files opening multiple explorer windows?

2013/09/09 Leave a comment
  1. Problem: To great confusion of my teachers, Sanako version 7 often seems to open multiple collection windows (1 per student recorded?) when collecting files, like so:
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  3. Possible Cause: From the screenshot above,
    1. where only 1 collection event out of 3 shows this undesirable behavior,
    2. and the 2 that did not, collected all file either under student computer name or all under student  login name:
    3. is it possible that Sanako has a bug which causes it to open one Windows explorer window per student file collected, if
      1. some students are displayed under their computer name,
      2. while other are displayed under their login name?
    4. This is aggravated by another limitation (or bug): Students that come online after  I chose show student computer names, are not affected  by this setting, but display with their login name (the default).
  4. Possible Workaround:
    1. Make sure all students display under the same naming scheme.
    2. This is best achieved by waiting until every student icon shows up in the classroom map before changing the classroom map student display option.
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How to set up your computer to access ASCM URLS with Adobe Digital Edition for DRM-protected eBooks

2013/09/09 Leave a comment
  1. I downloaded the Adobe digital Edition from here: http://www.adobe.com/products/digital-editions/download.html
  2. I installed the downloaded Adobe  Digital edition like so:
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  6. I can now run the Adobe Digital Edition program:
  7. However, File / open / paste url won’t work.
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  9. Also, if I download the ASCM file, Windows still does not know which application to open ASCM file with
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  11. I CAN HOWEVER DOWNLOAD AN ASCM FILE AND DRAG drop this into an open digital edition window, to get this at least
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  13. I went  down the "authorize your computer" route:
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  18. Here is my first example (from the Adobe samples website):
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  20. From now on, I can simply click on adobe digital edition links  with ASCM files.
  21. When getting the download dialogue, I can skip saving and click "open":
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  25. Note: you are consuming a license if you open te ebook with your account.

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