Wacom Bamboo Tablet enables Teacher to draw characters for class
2013/09/03
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- We set up one of the Wacom Tablets which we have used for Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja practice in our student group rooms, at the LRC teacher station. Benefit:
- drawing characters where typing (including with IMEs) is not a satisfactory option. This includes
- IPA
- I noticed phonetics teachers making heavy use of the whiteboard and document camera/projector to transcribe.
- We tested a Phonetics keyboard, but remembering your keyboard shortcuts has a learning curve;
- Besides, the keyboard is currently not user-switchable.
- stroke-order demonstration for East-Asian languages.
- IPA
- Unlike the document camera, the Wacom could be set up at the teacher station – no need to move to the other end of the room, and works without need for the video switch we consider replacing.
- To use, you can
- e.g. start MS-paint (click start-button, “Run”, type “mspaint”, click “OK”)),
- select the “pencil” menu icon to the right of the center here:
, - remove the pen from pouch on the side of the wacom tablet next to the keyboard,
- draw digitally with the pen tip (soft),
- select the “eraser”menu icon to the right of the center here:
- turn the pen and rub to digitally erase (or “select all”and press the “del” key),
- finally save the drawing, if you want to reuse it or share it with students (e.g. using the Sanako playlist ).
- To change settings, go to the control panel (click start-button, “Run”, type “control”, click “OK”and start the Wacom Bamboo Control Panel Applet,
- if you do not like the Wacom tablet input panel being set to represent the entire left screen that is visible to students on the projector.
- if you are not right-handed,
- etc.
- drawing characters where typing (including with IMEs) is not a satisfactory option. This includes
Categories: audience-is-teachers, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Speaking, Writing
character-input, graphics-tablets, phonetics
Wacom Bamboo Settings for Teacher
2013/09/03
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For the dual screen teacher station, it should be the student viewable monitor
Are we complicating things with touch ? We still have a mouse connected.
In tablet, no button allows setting to "popup menu"
Categories: audience-is-teachers, Presenter-Computer, software, Writing
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How to find resources that best fit your schedule using the OWA scheduling assistant parallel timelines
2013/09/02
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- Load all equivalent resources for each resource type that you require.
- Using the parallel free/busy timelines in the “Scheduling Assistant”, look for and “plug the holes” (in white):
- In the above example,
- for the given time frame (between rad/green line), no item is completely available;
- however, if you adjust your time frame slightly to earlier in the morning, you would be able to book either camera13 and 17 (assuming you need only one) and micboom 2
- In the above example,
- Remove the resources from the “Attendee list that are non-white = busy for the start/end time that you require the resources for.
- Click upper left menu: “Send” to book.
Protected: Many input languages, keyboards and IMEs requested are not accessible to most LRC users
2013/08/28
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WordSmith Tools are once again not licensed
2013/08/28
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- StartingWordsmith from the desktop shortcut results in this:
- Didn’t I test and describe last summer how to fix this?
Protected: Signs that your language lab computers or network may need upgrading…
2013/08/27
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Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors
How to speed up jumping around YouTube videos in class with YouTubeCenter
2013/08/27
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- 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.
- 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.
- Solution:
- 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.
- Here is more on how to install YouTubeCenter.
- No configuration necessary, ”Dash Playback” which buffers videos completely locally, is the default setting.
YouTube Center, a power user extension for your video usage in class
2013/08/27
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- YouTubeCenter comes for a variety of browsers, but note that Firefox seems the only practically supportable browser in our campus computing environment.
- To download and install, go to : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-center/ and click on:
- There is not shortage of settings (e.g. preselected is the Dash Playback, useful to speed up jumping around a video, by disabling streaming):
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