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November 30, 2008
Sunday after the long weekend
Pretty quiet,
Hope everybody had a great thanksgiving!
Posted by hpham at 11:30 PM
November 26, 2008
Wednesday early evening
Deleonibus has the small viewing room this next Monday 12:40-1:40~
NOTHING HAPPENED~
Alright, everybody! I need to know if Dec. 5th works! E-mail the LLC listserve and let me know~
~つづく
Posted by vreeser at 02:06 PM
Wednesday 9-10:20
Slow morning; not much to do.
Posted by msunada at 10:13 AM
November 25, 2008
Tuesday 6-7
A few people were using computers.
Posted by msunada at 06:50 PM
Tuesday 2-5
Did online and Ponoma Manual research for a potential film running in a loop on the 2nd floor.
Posted by isuresh at 04:48 PM
Tues 2-4
Found the notes from the WWN meeting, and sent it out to Louise, Zan, and Jessa.
Looked around the Bootcamp manual for any Chinese resources, then started to look over the resources on the website. There are a few dead or not very useful links, so I will begin to document and possibly change these.
Posted by anave at 03:54 PM
Tuesday 11:30-12:30
A lady named Donna called the LLC and asked if anyone at the school knew how to speak Somalian or if we knew of anyone at all who speaks it.
Posted by msunada at 12:30 PM
tuesday
quiet shift, only a group of Spanish students were here
Posted by jbianchi at 10:19 AM
November 24, 2008
Monday 6-9
Spanish groups were here all my shift. Helped them all thi time. Probably will stay here till 9.30 as they would really like to finish the assignment.
Posted by oslabari at 08:55 PM
Monday evening again
discussed with Natalya about putting on the LLC holiday party~
E-mailed everyone about finding a suitable time for us to get together~
Helped one of the Spanish class groups get started using Movie Maker vs. Elements, which we determined was a pain in the @$$~
~つづく
Posted by vreeser at 05:51 PM
Monday 4-5
Spanish group was already here when I arrived. I closed the door for them to record around 4:45 & asked Simon if he could tutor outside for a while.
Posted by msunada at 04:56 PM
monday afternoon
compiled spanish resources for natalia, sent out wwn e-mail zan and luis
kelsey... i didn't know the humidifier needed to be on. We need to update the assistance manual!
Posted by jgfowler at 03:40 PM
monday 9-12
been working on a project for the end of the semester
Posted by jbianchi at 11:50 AM
Monday 9-10:15
One of the Spanish groups reserved the LLC today from 4:30 to 6:00.
Posted by msunada at 10:06 AM
November 23, 2008
Sunday 7-11
Both Spanish groups I'k working with came today. Group 1 continued dubbing. They are ok with the Movie Maker now and don't need any assistance.
Group 2 tried to burn the movie and the Spanish version. Adobe Premiere Elements doesn't work (we're having too much trouble with it, don't think it's worth using it in future). The problem is that when they they used Premiere Elements to cut the original Spanish file (which was 300mb in size) and exported the movie, they dot a 4.7GB .avi file (which is weird, they didn't add anything, just cut it). Of course, we couldn't record it on H drive or on the DVD-R because it was too big. Even more, we couldn't record it on the hard drive (although there was 361 GB of free space, it said that there is not enough space).
Does anyone know what's wrong with the file? If we can't figure anything out, they will cut the movie again using Movie Maker, yet, it could be great to help them.
If you know what to do: the file named Group2Cut-undub.prel located on the desktop of the last computer on the left (next to the Mac) is the project file. They exported it, the file is named Group2Cut-Undub.avi . they need to record it using ANY device so that they can bring it to class for presentation.
Posted by oslabari at 09:20 PM | Comments (0)
shift 5-7 sund 23rd
A group of spanish students came for their doubling project
Posted by jbianchi at 06:48 PM
November 22, 2008
Saturday
Simon came in. There is a group watching a movie in Walton 21. I did research for the past 4 hours. That's about it.
Please try to remember to turn the dehumidifier on at night. Thanks
Posted by kherb at 03:56 PM
November 21, 2008
friday pm
simon and jose were here for awhile
reviewed the WWN, sent out an e-mail about it
have all name card pictures except for MEGAN! feel guilty and send it to me or natalia!
Posted by jgfowler at 06:50 PM
friday pm
simon and jose were here for awhile
reviewed the WWN, sent out an e-mail about it
have all name card pictures except for MEGAN! feel guilty and send it to me or natalia!
also, please wash your own mugs people!
Posted by jgfowler at 06:50 PM
Friday 11 - 3 pm
Fixed the problem with the Nakama Audio but only for the first 8 chapters. The problem with chapters 9 and 10 I failed to fix.
Posted by vsubboti at 02:59 PM
Friday 9-11
Tried to fix the problem with the Japanese Nakama Audio on WISE, but it requires administrator access. I checked and the missing files are on the external hard drive.
Posted by msunada at 10:45 AM
November 20, 2008
4-7 Thursday
Lin and Simon were in here working for a while. Other than that, it has been fairly uneventful. I talked with Natalia for a bit.
Did we ever figure out a coffee replenishing schedule?
Posted by kherb at 06:58 PM
Thursday 2-4
Talked with Natalia about language things...How we should restart the language blogs (change to wise, consolidate previous information onto the website or on the MyLanguage spaces.)
Revamping the site, and changing the organization of the language sections.
Also talked about how we might involve TA's and Faculty with the lab. (Mostly faculty)
The Colloquium was here today as well, making the salem guide. Looks like they're in the final stages...
Posted by anave at 03:11 PM
12-2pm
Helped an Spanish student
there was a colloquim class
Worked on phtoshop
Posted by jbianchi at 01:45 PM
Dmitriy's shift
Very rainy morning. it was cold in the lab, so i turned of the A/C. Marta was here, then Simon came, he spent my whole shift talking on skype. Then Natalia was here. I fixed(restarted) one of the computers.
Posted by dsemenia at 11:58 AM
Thursday 8-9am
Good morning! :)
Wrote new Russian blog. Continuing the triage of francophone films. A Chinese student came in to study.
Posted by mtarants at 08:44 AM
November 19, 2008
Wed 5-9
Had some trouble with the audio for a TellMeMore, just had to change the audio settings to match the headphones.
Tutoring happened as well, simon was here for a while.
Posted by anave at 08:41 PM
Wednesday Spanish recording
I'm here helping one of the Spanish groups with recording (they came today at 4.30). It is Group 1, they started recording today, so we'll be seeing them around for a while.
Yesterday evening I've been working with Group 2, they finished the assignment.
Does anyone know anything about the other 2 groups? Are they doing ok?
Posted by oslabari at 06:14 PM
Wednesday early evening
No Natalya?! Where are you?!?~
Everything was pretty laid-back~
A couple girls came in to work on their Spanish project~
Went upstairs to help a professor sign someone up with WISE~
published a couple SPAN-131 WISE pages on the request of the teacher~
~つづく
Posted by vreeser at 05:02 PM
Natalia - out this afternoon
I went home to take care of the cold. Hope to be back tomorrow.
Posted by nshevche at 02:46 PM
wednesday
-Been working on codecs and ways to storage online material in order to give access to some people
Posted by jbianchi at 12:52 PM
wednesday
-edited the world news entries...should be ready for publication soon
-there was a problem with the computer next door, then marta and i found that it helps to turn the switch on
-i put the bulletin board world news things up upstairs
Posted by afrackel at 11:43 AM
Wednesday 9-10:20
WITS Pro delivered the printed version of the World News Blog. It's on the printer.
Posted by msunada at 10:13 AM
Wednesday 8-8:30am
Prof Stalker came by to print out a page and to see ho the lab was doing in general. She is nice. :)
Also...the Spanish notebook that have been around the tables for a while now - I emailed the owner and when he comes by (his name is Nate), please give it to him. It will be in the black cabinet. Also....Did Claire Hoffman come by to pick up her choir folder? Did someone return it to her?
Posted by mtarants at 08:28 AM
November 18, 2008
Tuesday 7-10,30 (!!) pm
E-e, I'm still here :-) The Spanish group just finished recording and is exporting the video now. Will be here for some 10 more minutes until they finish.
Posted by jgfowler at 10:26 PM
Tuesday 6-7
I added a link to Content Production in the boot camp manual for the brown bag page.
Posted by msunada at 06:55 PM
Tuesday 4 to 6 pm
Posted some entries to Events Blog. Tried to burn the Rosetta Stone image to the CD and DVD, but failed.
Posted by vsubboti at 05:55 PM
Tues 2-4
A telemarketer called, just a recorded sales pitch...
Worked with PCTV, there is most likely an issue with permissions. I exported the channel list from the administrator workspace, it's now on the LLC drive under Andy>Channels>Channels.xml If anyone wants to play around with it, go ahead. It dosn't seem to work though. To export/import, go into start>Programs>Pinnacle PCTV>Tools>Channel Manager, then just click on import/export.
Posted by anave at 03:57 PM
Shift Monday 17th
Been working on video and codecs packs
Posted by jbianchi at 02:09 PM
Tuesday 11:30-12:30
Looked for missing Russian CD-ROM in the cd cases on the white rack, but couldn't find it. If anyone finds it, please let Natalia know. The picture on the disk is the same as on the box, which is currently by the printer. A colloquium class came in at 12:20. Not sure what time they'll be here til.
Posted by msunada at 12:26 PM
tuesday am
sent reminder to luis and megan to send in pictures for namecards
arranged spanish project meeting for tomorrow at 4:30 with Olga
sent in service request for jan and luis's wwn photos
Posted by jgfowler at 11:25 AM
Dmitriy's 8-9 shift
The weather is depressing, i want the sun to shine:) Very quiet shift. Did not even have to open, Marta was here long before me:)
Posted by dsemenia at 09:59 AM
November 17, 2008
Monday 6-9
On Sunday the girls had problems with the dubbing. They first closed the program without exporting the movie, and then tried to open it again. It was not working, we could hear no sound. As Howie and I figured out, the problem was that the PC was generally not playing the sound. We moved the video to another PC, and it was ok. But the girls had enough stress.
They are coming again tomorrow during my shift. Natalia, can we close the lab at 7.30 pm so that they can finish recording?
Today checked the PC and the Movie Maker. Everything great.
Few people were here during my shift.
Posted by oslabari at 08:46 PM
Mondays
Met with Natalya and discussed putting information on the Japanese blog being that I am a Japanese language representative~
Answered the phone, someone wanted to come in to work on something~
Contacted Minami about posting on the blog~
Evening was fairly slow; Simon was tutoring and everyone else is just using computers~
~つづく
Posted by vreeser at 06:05 PM
Monday 4-5
A couple people used the computers and came in for tutoring.
Posted by msunada at 05:05 PM
Monday 9-10:15
Enabled the Sign-Up tool on WISE for JAPN 201, 331, 432.
Posted by msunada at 10:04 AM
Monday 8-9 am
I emailed the suspected owner of the folder that has been on one of the tables for a few days about the fder having been forgotten. It is on the top shelf in the black cabinet. The person I suspect is the proprietor of it is Claire Hoffman. So, if she comes by, please give it to her. Thanks!
Posted by mtarants at 08:04 AM
November 16, 2008
Sunday night
One of the Dubing groups came in. MovieMaker wasn't working on their PC (computer E), so I moved them to a new computer. Everything seemed to go well once they got started on MovieMaker.
Posted by kherb at 08:06 PM
November 15, 2008
Saturday afternoon
One of the Spanish dubbing groups came in. I recommended they use MovieMaker instead of Premier Elements. It seemed to go really well. It only took a minute or so of explanation, and everything else went really smoothly.
Posted by kherb at 01:56 PM
November 14, 2008
Friday 9-11
Uneventful morning. Two people used the computers.
Posted by msunada at 10:56 AM
November 13, 2008
Thursday 7-9 pm
Posted some entries to Events Blog. Nobody was here.
Posted by vsubboti at 08:54 PM
Kelsey's shift
I looked at MovieMaker so I can help out the group that is coming in this weekend.
Posted by kherb at 07:03 PM
Movie Maker
There were some problems with the dubbing voice using Adobe Premiere Elements. The voice was interrupting when played in Premiere Elements.
The better way to dub the voice is using the Movie Maker program. I tried it and it works much better. Here's how you can do it:
Dubbing in Movie Maker
1. Start Movie Maker from the Start Menu, then go to Program>Accessories>Entertainment>Movie Maker
2. Import the movie you want to dub over (File > Capture Video)
3. Drag the movie down on to the timeline (the movie will appear divided into scenes, so just select all of them and drag down to the timeline)
4. If you want to completely silence the sound of the video click on the small Volume icon on the left hand-side, just above the Timeline, and the drag the slider to Audio/Music
5. Go to Tools > Narrate Timeline
6. Then select the time where you want to start the narration at by moving the Time slider on the exact moment in the movie
7. Click on Start Narration
8. Then when you are done with the narration, save the .wmv file where you want it to be.
9. When you are ready with editing your movie click on Finish Movie and save the file in the desired format. You can save the movie by going to File > Save Movie File.
Posted by oslabari at 05:07 PM
nov 13 th 12-2pm
Been working on Voice Thread
There was a colloquium class
Posted by jbianchi at 04:15 PM
November 12, 2008
Wed 5-9
Not much going on, scheduled a class in the LLC tomorrow, there will also be one 2:30-3:30 on Friday.
There is a film meeting and movie going on in the joined room.
Posted by anave at 09:01 PM
Wednesday all day today
Started off checking out a DVD for Minami~
Worked on an issue involving the PCTV program. Here's how to get it to play all of the channels it offers. You will have to do it manually each time you want to watch one, so instruct our patrons wisely:
lick on the wrench icon after opening the program; it's on the bottom left-
Then click the "add" button on the right of the settings menu-
click the drop-down "channels" tab and scroll to the number you want. Refer to the list on the desk for the correct number-
after selecting one, click "tune" followed by "ok" and you should be on the channel you selected~
~つづく
Posted by vreeser at 04:57 PM
jose
been working on voice thread and presentations, and ideas for every exchange student
Posted by jbianchi at 12:53 PM
Wednesday 9-10:20
Natalia showed someone how to use WordChamp, and a few students were on the computers.
Posted by msunada at 10:05 AM
November 11, 2008
Tuesday 7-9 pm
Waited for Spanish, students, but they didn't show up. So far the Spanish dubbing process is rolling. Here's a short summary (exerpts from the blog):
10-11-2008 morning
some spanish students came into schedule a time to work on the spanish audio project. they will be coming in at 8 during olga's shift for help!
10-10-2008
Victor: Came in and observed some girls doing Spanish project. They were self-sufficient
Jose: helped spanish students with adobe premiere
Megan: Several Spanish students came in to work on their projects.
10-09-2008
Megan: Busy shift...A group came in to do the dubbing assignment for their Spanish class.
Other than that pretty calm.
Posted by jgfowler at 08:50 PM
Tuesday 6-7
Quiet as usual. Some people were here at the beginning of my shift, but no one was here by the end...
Posted by msunada at 06:52 PM
Tuesday 4-6 pm
Searched for Rosetta Stone CDs in Internet. Please don't turn off the first PC, Rosetta Stone files are downloading there.
Posted by vsubboti at 05:46 PM
Tuesday 11:30-12:30
Natalia gave a study abroad presentation, and the water company came and filled up the water jug in the small viewing room.
Posted by msunada at 12:30 PM
tuesday am
looked for installation cd for older (2002) rosetta stone programs (italian, russian) in black book, on shelves and Natalia looked in cabinet. any one have any other ideas?
student here using photoshop.
study abroad (spanish) meeting at 11:30
ALSO! some spanish students came into schedule a time to work on the spanish audio project. they will be coming in at 8 during olga's shift for help!
Posted by jgfowler at 11:20 AM
November 10, 2008
Monday 6-9 pm
2 students were here to use computers. 2 students came to the small viewing room to watch some materials for their class. And a french party is going on. A lot of fun.
Posted by msunada at 08:41 PM
Monday evening
Came in and observed some girls doing Spanish project. They were self-sufficient~
Dubbed my own video for Natalya. I'm good to go~
Listened to Jose talk for the entire time. You're pretty loud, homie~
~つづく
Posted by vreeser at 06:00 PM
2.30-5.00
worked on language software and instalation
helped spanish students with adobe premiere
Posted by jbianchi at 05:07 PM
Monday 4-5
Several Spanish students came in to work on their projects.
Posted by msunada at 04:56 PM
9-12
Working with the software for encoding and ripping
helped one student to sign up for tutoring
Posted by jbianchi at 03:03 PM
Monday123456667
Opened up with lunch and some talk to Natalya about the Spanish class using our facilities in the near future~
Someone called for Natalya~
Posted Takumi Matsuri on the Events blog~
Nothing eventful~
~つづく
Posted by vreeser at 03:00 PM
monday
-added an entry to the events blog
-helped someone sign up for tutoring
-edited introduction entries for the WWN bulletin board in a word document
-Prof. Wu came by wanting to schedule her class to come in Wednesday morning
Posted by afrackel at 12:30 PM
Monday 9-10:15
Quiet morning. Not many people came in.
Posted by msunada at 10:13 AM
November 09, 2008
Sunday Night....(8-11PM)
Busy shift...A group came in to do the dubbing assignment for their Spanish class
Posted by msunada at 10:56 PM
November 08, 2008
Saturday Afternoon
Long shift, Jose came in toward the end, I left him the key so he could use the lab.
Posted by anave at 04:05 PM
November 07, 2008
friday pm
luis and megan please send natalia your namecard photos!
worked with hebrew student to begin final project (translation using bibleworks)
Posted by jgfowler at 07:03 PM
Friday evening
A girl came in to use Rossetta Stone Italian; but we couldn't get it to work. It seems that Rossetta Stone was not installed properly on any of the computers in the lab. The Auto Run feature doesn't work; and it simply doesn't do anything.
I believe we have to log in into each CPU with admin privilege to reinstall Rossette Stone to get it to work.
Natalia is out for today; so I can't do anything for now
If you can get it to work, please email and notify :
Alicia Maggard
at
THANK YOU!
Posted by dsemenia at 03:48 PM
Friday 9-11
Quiet morning. Only a couple people came in.
Posted by msunada at 11:00 AM
November 06, 2008
Vladimir's shift Thursday 7 - 9 pm
Posted couple entries to Events Blog. Very calm shift. Nobody was here.
Posted by vsubboti at 09:02 PM
Dmitriy's 4-6 shift
Many people were here until about 5 pm, but then everybody left and just my and Kelsey were here
Posted by dsemenia at 06:03 PM
Thursday 2-4
Arrived to a busy class, one person forgot their flash drive. I sent them an email, it's currently on the top shelf in the black cabinet.
Tutoring was here as well, both chinese and french.
Apparently some problems with dubbing, Olga is taking care of it.
Posted by anave at 04:00 PM
Dmitriy's shift 9-12:00
Talked with Natalia about life, which can be great sometimes, about the president and politics. Then one woman came to get help with wise, but she did not have an email to be able to register, so i called Natalia, and Natalia was able to deal with her and her attitude:)
Posted by dsemenia at 11:58 AM
Thursday 7-9am
Continuing to update the list of the Francophone films. Took off the World news Bulletin Board - the big green background and the photos, cleaned the tape off the photos, they are now tacked on top of the assistant desk. Will be walking by the Cook's Stationery store today to see what kind of pretty things they might have for the bulletin board. :) A student came in to use a PC.
Posted by mtarants at 08:49 AM
November 05, 2008
Wednesday early evening V
Answered the phone~
Helped a guy figure out the volume on a computer. It was muted :P ~
Some girls came in to study Spanish from the translation class~
~つづく
Posted by vreeser at 04:57 PM
Wednesday 9-10:20
Not a very busy morning. Prof. Deleonibus (French) and Marta spoke to some students in France via webcam. The webcam kept having white noise off and on, but I'm not sure why.
Posted by msunada at 10:14 AM
Wednesday 8-9 am
A wonderful morning with Skype. Tried to fix the translation fro French conference. The program showed not our video, but a TV program. This happens when you try to open Skype on some conputers. So, just change the Skype video settings. And in order to have sound just check that everything that has to be plugged in is actually plugged in and reboot the computer.Besides that, we also had problems with the Skype audio settings. Fixed everything, hope students enjoy the conference.
Posted by msunada at 08:56 AM
November 04, 2008
Tuesday 6-7
Uploaded the Brown Bag Lunch Series pages to the LLC website & watched the election.
Posted by msunada at 06:54 PM
Tuesday 4 to 6 pm
Created couple entries at the Events blog. Prepared online TV for Simon's session.
Posted by vsubboti at 05:53 PM
Tuesday 11:30-12:30
Started updating the French films page on the LLC website, but Natalia said to hold off until Marta finished her project first. Showed Natalia the pages for the Brown Bag Lunch Series. She approved them so I will be putting those up tonight.
Posted by msunada at 12:31 PM
Tuesday 7-9am
I brought a zip-tie and fixed the key-thing. not it should be fairly reliably fixed. Working on my project which is updating the list of Francophone films available in the WU library that we can put later on the LLC website. I got the complete list by emailing Doreen Simonsen.
Posted by mtarants at 07:53 AM
November 03, 2008
Monday 6-9 pm
Work on the Premiere Elements. Uploaded the announcement to Spanish 365 class.
Pretty calm here, only a couple of students came to use PCs.
Posted by oslabari at 08:08 PM
Monday nightskies
Very sloooooow~
Nothing special happened~
Manned the fort til Olga came by~
Posted by vreeser at 05:57 PM
Monday 4-5
Worked on the web pages for the Brown Bag Lunch Series some more. If things go smoothly, they should be up some time this week.
Posted by msunada at 04:52 PM
monday pm
talked to natalia about wwn communication
gave simon the tell me more french cd's to use with student
sent out e-mail reminder about name cards. megan, olga, victor, marta and luis we need your pictures!!!
Posted by jgfowler at 03:57 PM
early monday
Nothing too crazy happened~
Helped a guy with wordchamp set-up and flashcard functions~
Fielded a couple phone calls~
~つづく
Posted by vreeser at 02:59 PM
Monday 9-10:15
Began creating individual pages for different days in the Brown Bag Lunch Series 2008, but haven't uploaded any of them yet.
Posted by msunada at 10:02 AM
Monday 8-9 am
I brought instant French vanilla coffee to the small viewing room. We need sugar and creamer. :( No new voicemail messages. I changed the clock with the 1-hour behind thing. :) (Right, Daylight Savings Time).
Posted by mtarants at 09:00 AM
November 02, 2008
Sunday Night (8-11PM)
A girl came to use Skype...Other than that it's a quiet night
Posted by kherb at 10:56 PM
Sunday evening
very quiet and dull...i did some web surfing and looked at some nifty programs.
Posted by kherb at 07:58 PM