May 09, 2007
kei's last blog entry
this is my last llc blog entry ever...tear...
so this is it! i'm done! good luck to everyone next year and have an excellent summer!
i'll come and visit next year!
bye!!!
Posted by kotawa at 04:52 PM
May 07, 2007
kei's monday shift
happy monday
one more final to go!!!!
nothing much happening
FGR came but Jessa didn't so FGR left
Posted by kotawa at 01:27 PM
April 30, 2007
Kei's monday shift
One more day of undergraduate classes!
I added a video tutorial on rendering.
I put the plastic forks in the "ROOM"
Also an IMPORTANT NOTE! If a Classics student drops by and asks about a classics computer program, it's on computer A under the classics folder!
Also, does anyone know if Group 6 from McIvor's class picked up their DVD. One of their DVDs is gone and they didn't take the other DVD which actually has the project burned on it. It's still next to the printer.
Posted by kotawa at 01:25 PM
April 27, 2007
kei's morning shift
happy friday!
I'm almost done with my last paper!
I also rendered Group 4 and Group C. The rendered files are in their folders.
Posted by kotawa at 09:02 AM
April 25, 2007
kei's shifts
just burned a dvd for Group 6 in McIvor's class
i left near the printer
give them both dvds
Posted by kotawa at 05:00 PM
April 23, 2007
kei's shift
more help with adobe elements
backed up some video projects onto the external drive
Posted by kotawa at 01:31 PM
April 20, 2007
kei's shift
some of the rendered videos had audio problems so i had to redo it
group 4 is rendering right now, if someone could check it that would be great
if an error message shows up, try to render it again in quicktime
Posted by kotawa at 09:00 AM
April 18, 2007
kei's wednesday shifts
Happy SSRD!
Important notice!
WITS is missing a USB cable! It has a usb end and the other end connects with a camera. Please keep your eyes open for this cable.
Posted by kotawa at 05:25 PM
kei's wednesday shifts
Happy SSRD!
Important notice!
WITS is missing a USB cable! It has a usb end and the other end connects with a camera. Please keep your eyes out for this cable.
Posted by kotawa at 05:25 PM
April 16, 2007
kei's shift
what a hectic shift!
here's the deal...this is important!
when capturing video
1) create the group folder on the desktop (name the folder GROUPNAME_PROFESOR)
2) open premiere elements ONLY! (don't use other programs)
3) save everything to the group folder (make sure you browse for the folder!!!!)
4) go to capture and elements will automatically save the video clips to this folder!
Posted by kotawa at 01:50 PM
April 13, 2007
kei's morning shift
uploaded the video tutorials for adobe premiere elements
Posted by kotawa at 09:06 AM
April 11, 2007
kei's afternoon shift
some editing on our llc webpage
discussed with Natalia about Friday's orientation
thanks Zhanna for covering my night shift!
Posted by kotawa at 04:58 PM
kei's shift
Cleaned up the llc
The Elements document on SPAN 232 is almost the same as our new one so I just did a few editing.
I linked Kelsey's video tutorials on our website and did some editing on the help desk webpage.
I'll be back later this afternoon.
Posted by kotawa at 11:28 AM
April 09, 2007
Important Message
Please READ!
Natalia and I were chatting about what we can do to help show the Spanish students how to use Elements since they will begin coming in to LLC soon to do their projects. Here's our solution. Sample videos from last year will be put up on their network share for their class (i think it's span232). Video tutorials will be put up soon on our llc website. LLC assistants will direct Spanish students to that page to learn how to use the basics of Elements. Students will be coming in on their own time so please be aware you will need to do this. If you know Elements fairly well and can teach them feel free to do so otherwise show them the video tutorials. They will probably start coming in starting next week.
Thanks for reading!
Next time, research using webcams to record teacher-student conversations.
Posted by kotawa at 01:32 PM
April 06, 2007
kei's shift
nothing much...
i'll be back this afternooon to help with adobe elements
Posted by kotawa at 09:40 AM
April 04, 2007
kei's unexpected shift
so i came back early from portland
did not expect that to happen
so i came down to the llc to see whats up...i took a look at the webpage review on our wiki
it looks good but should we have our login and password on that page anyone can access that page so someone can edit our llc page if they wanted to, i wouldn't know why but someone can
thats it, i have to leave early so i'm taking off now...
Posted by kotawa at 04:27 PM
April 02, 2007
kei's shift
Welcome back!
I have a favor to ask for anyone...could someone link the pictures on LLC resources page?
did blog how to's today
Later i will have to...
link brown bag lunch podcasts--with language lab unleased
start creating a adobe premiere tutorial
Posted by kotawa at 01:11 PM
March 22, 2007
kei covers rositsa's shift
that's what i did this morning
Posted by kotawa at 10:28 AM
March 21, 2007
kei's wednesday shift
lessons with beyza again
today i taught her how to upload audio on to blackboard
russian and french movie at night
Posted by kotawa at 08:59 PM
March 20, 2007
kei's shift
well actually it's kelsey's shift but i'm covering for her
brown bag lunch was today, exciting stuff!
updated the brown bag lunch series page
help two students setting up their laptop on the teaching station
Posted by kotawa at 02:18 PM
March 19, 2007
monday night
covered for anna-san
posted nakama audio chapter 6, 7, 8
more documentation work-created a new captivate video on mapping network drives
Posted by kotawa at 08:50 PM
kei's monday shift
Last week of class until spring break!
Tested skype equipment and i put them in the box of headphones.
More brainstorming on documentation.
Posted by kotawa at 01:31 PM
March 16, 2007
kei's friday shift
Happy Friday!
Successfully covered dimi's shift and all else a quiet shift
more work to do on the llc help desk page
Posted by kotawa at 12:36 PM
kei's friday shift
Happy Friday!
Successfully covered dimi's shift and all else a quiet shift
more work to do on the llc help desk page
Posted by kotawa at 12:36 PM
kei's friday shift
Happy Friday!
Successfully covered dimi's shift and all else a quiet shift
more work to do on the llc help desk page
Posted by kotawa at 12:36 PM
March 14, 2007
kei's wednesday shift
more lessons with beyza this time on editing our website
more documentation stuff; i've changed some things around with the llc references page so that it looks more appealing
looking forward to adding more video tutorials
small changes with the brown bag lunch page
Posted by kotawa at 09:04 PM
March 12, 2007
kei's shift
i hate daylight savings in the spring! i want my hour of sleep back!
but on a bright note, the countdown toward spring break begins!
there's only one brownie left!
Posted by kotawa at 01:30 PM
March 09, 2007
kei's morning shift
happy friday!
i'm almost done with battling with this nasty flu...almost...
Anyway it was my birthday yesterday so i made brownies for everyone. I left them in the room so take some!
And Michael I was sick and miserable all week and out of town for the past two days so i haven't looked into finalcut in detail yet but i'll make sure and get back to you next week.
Posted by kotawa at 09:02 AM
February 28, 2007
kei's shift
some little things...
i helped Elizabeth once again but this time about skype and live video streaming
fixed a small thing on world news
Posted by kotawa at 04:54 PM
February 26, 2007
kei's shift
just did some cleaning up and brainstormed about documentation (i need to work on this)
Posted by kotawa at 01:35 PM
February 23, 2007
kei's morning shift
happy friday!
a quiet morning so here's a tidbit from me
a a half ton squid was found recently and if you decide to make calamari out of that squid, the rings would be the size of normal car tire
that's big!
Posted by kotawa at 08:59 AM
February 21, 2007
kei's shift
lot's of panic over P. Varas' video but all has been straighten out
our best guess is that her computer has some setting issues, her dvds work just fine on our computers
prof. fofana and michael are working diligently with their documentary
more llc lessons with beyza and juliana
Posted by kotawa at 09:04 PM
February 19, 2007
kei's shift
talked to natalia about training tomorrow
My projects...
Began with Fuijiwara video project editing and translating a personal video from japan
worked more on dreamweaver studying templates, rss and css
webpage projects with professors
multicert/fast
willamette abroad maintenance
world news transition to blogs
llc website work
spanish 365 assitance
documentation transition to video documents
how to make the llc better and more efficient supporting language learning students
Posted by kotawa at 01:03 PM
February 16, 2007
kei's morning shift
still sick ahhhh....
checked to see if audacity was working on all of the computers...that took like 30 minutes.
if maria comes in to asks about stuff tell her that the package was shipped to her room at 9 am
Posted by kotawa at 09:03 AM
February 14, 2007
kei's wednesday shift
during the afternoon shift i was training beyza on how to upload pics and link them on the world news blog
night shift was all quiet
happy valentine's day!
Posted by kotawa at 09:05 PM
February 12, 2007
kei's monday shift
i'm back but sicker than ever and tired
i updated the classroom schedule on the website but i couldn't find the original to make the hard copy
so we may need to make a new one or if someone knows where the original file is please update it and print out a color version of it
Posted by kotawa at 01:26 PM
February 07, 2007
kei's wednesday shift
ahhh yes my wednesday shift...what did i do???
trained our new employee, beyza for about an hour
typed a brief outline for LLC training
at night i brainstormed what to do about the audacity workshop
so here's what i did...
i made a new link called LLC help documents under resources
there i made a link for blackboard and audacity
the step by step instructions for audacity is there but i couldn't link the video file that kelsey made to that page
it would be nice if someone could look into that
otherwise, the document follows the video up to saving the file which isn't in the video but that shouldn't be a problem
ok that's enough i think...time for some sleep and off to NWC swimming championship
wish me luck!
Posted by kotawa at 08:58 PM
February 05, 2007
kei's shift
i covered for demi today
lots of stuff...sort of
installed captivate 2 which by the way is awesome! Check it out if you want to its on computer A.
helped jason wang? with audacity
cleaned up some things on the computers
Posted by kotawa at 01:25 PM
February 02, 2007
kei's morning shift
nothing much in the morning
kelsey came in to talk about the tech fair but i really didn't know what to say so maybe i'll be more prepared next time
what was i supposed to talk about Natalia?
Posted by kotawa at 09:02 AM
January 31, 2007
kei's afternoon and night shift
i updated the willamette abroad site for uganda, south africa and india that was requested by the email
at night a person came in to use the "room" to watch a video
now i have to figure out how to create a step-by-step how document for audacity/blackboard audio uploading via using captivate and conventional writing
i will need to install captivate 2 on two computers and install our skype communicator sometime soon
Posted by kotawa at 09:01 PM
January 29, 2007
kei otawa
helped a person burn a cd...some computers have trouble doing that, it's very frustrating
She left for class so she should coming back for that cd today. I left it on the center table. It is labeled Sasha Lee which is her name.
Also, a man came in to reserve the viewing room. He will be emailing Natalia.
Posted by kotawa at 01:30 PM
January 26, 2007
kei's morning shift
nothing...
Posted by kotawa at 09:04 AM
January 24, 2007
kei's wednesday shift
i took a look at the llc schedule page that anna had problems with, i had a nice chat with her about that later
i "trained" john how to link the world news pics to their bios
there is german movie showing in the classroom right now
Posted by kotawa at 09:11 PM
January 22, 2007
kei's shift
not much going on
i had a nice chat with natalia about what to do with FGR's project
i started deleting the spam comments on our blogs (if you are bored feel free to help)
Posted by kotawa at 01:28 PM
January 18, 2007
kei's night shift
nothing much going on...a quiet night except i helped show a video for linguistics students
Posted by kotawa at 09:01 PM
January 16, 2007
kei's morning shift
what a morning shift!
snow and ice outside
fire alarm went off i guess
other than that no one came down and it was all quiet
Posted by kotawa at 10:05 AM
January 15, 2007
kei's shift
i put velcro on the door for the sign...it looks kinda tacky but whatever
could someone go to the classroom next door and fix the language settings for the dvd player, it's set on chinese at the moment
i added another blog to willamette abroad
happy first day of classes and mlk day!
Posted by kotawa at 01:35 PM
kei's shift
i put velcro on the door for the sign...it looks kinda tacky but whatever
could someone go to the classroom next door and fix the language settings for the dvd player, it's set on chinese at the moment
i added another blog to willamette abroad
michael, the new organizer is genious!
happy first day of classes and mlk day!
Posted by kotawa at 01:35 PM
December 21, 2006
kei's winter break
create a willamette abroad tutorial
flash mx 2004 research
Posted by kotawa at 03:59 PM
December 13, 2006
kei's morning shift
checkout winpitch!
it's a awesome program to check pitch
you need to go to program files and find the folder winpitch
Posted by kotawa at 10:22 AM
December 12, 2006
kei's shift
Prof. Covarrubias came in to return the laptop. She borrowed a set of headphones from us.
fixed the request from the study abroad student for the willamette abroad
fyi, if we want to we can link the pics of each world news submitter to their bios
i've tested a couple already
click on the pics on the last two submissions
Posted by kotawa at 01:27 PM
December 06, 2006
kei's morning shift
span 232 came in to work on premiere elements
fyi to all llc assistance that students from this class will come in and may ask you some questions about premiere, it might be a good idea to know some stuff about premiere if you don't already
they may ask you where to save the final product, final products should be exported as .avi by going to >export>movie and save it in the span232 network drive (\\home\span232) all students will have access to this network drive
Posted by kotawa at 10:01 AM
December 05, 2006
kei's night shift
burned a dvd for the That 70s Show group
the truffles were awesome!
i copied the premiere elements instructions to our llc seedwiki page, it's under 'video'
Posted by kotawa at 09:15 PM | Comments (0)
kei's shift
whew what a busy shift
helped teach adobe premiere elements and burn dvds
Posted by kotawa at 01:56 PM
November 28, 2006
kei's shift
just a simple note...we have extra printer paper now
Posted by kotawa at 01:35 PM
November 21, 2006
kei's night shift
nothing much just a bunch of span 365 students working on their project
i'm trying to figure out why the video clips shift when the audio clips are moved
Natalia, I will likely be back by Saturday night so I could probably open up the LLC if needed
Posted by kotawa at 08:59 PM
kei's shift
nothing much
some printer problems
helped prof. delgado with some of her web stuff
did some more world news archival work
Posted by kotawa at 01:55 PM
November 15, 2006
kei's shift
just fyi, you can also use the firewire cables to connect the hard drives
u don't have to only use usb
i also put the scrubs hard drive back into "the room"
Posted by kotawa at 10:10 AM
November 14, 2006
kei's shift
helped span 365 student
did some archival work for world news
couldn't copy russian rosetta stone so i left it in the black cabinet
Posted by kotawa at 01:40 PM
October 18, 2006
kei's morning shift
there is a german class in the classroom right now
i put a simple instructions page on our seedwiki about premiere (under class projects)
the seedwiki is fixed now
description/ID/introduction cards(whatever we call them) for john, michael, and dimitry came in today
Posted by kotawa at 10:06 AM
October 17, 2006
kei's night shift
nothing much happened...just helped out a span365 student with adobe premiere
markus came in to see if the classroom was open tomorrow morning
Posted by kotawa at 08:56 PM
kei's shift
updated more on the world news archive
added a wiki on how to update the willamette abroad site
Posted by kotawa at 01:31 PM
October 11, 2006
kei's morning shift
worked on copying our seedwiki for the llc
maria delgado picked up the video
Posted by kotawa at 09:06 AM
October 10, 2006
kei's night shift
more world news archival stuff
helped set up spanish movie
Posted by kotawa at 09:00 PM
kei's shift
i found episode #143 not #43 so i left that on the table; i couldn't find #43 in the booth but i found this video in the "room"
i put the tea stuff that was in the cabinet into the "room"
Our LLC seedwiki seems to be not working. I noticed that if you log in, we have a new, blank wiki for the llc. So, we may need to copy our old wiki to this new place...
FYI, there are extra headphones in the cardboard box below the printer
Posted by kotawa at 01:31 PM
October 04, 2006
kei's morning shift
more worldnews updates
finished uploading nakama files to blackboard
We will need someone to help Prof. Fujiwara download Audacity to her computer. She has a Mac.
Posted by kotawa at 10:14 AM
October 03, 2006
kei's night shift
worked more on the worldnews archives
copied nakama audio from the cd; they are ready to be uploaded to blackboard
Posted by kotawa at 09:00 PM
kei's shift
worked on world news archive
fixed the microphone velcro
helped with FAST documentation
Posted by kotawa at 01:37 PM
September 27, 2006
kei's morning shift
Worked on updating the llc website and video dubbing instructions for premiere elements is below.
Please use the DVD player rather than the computer to show the Premiere Elements Tutorial.
For Spanish 365 there are only a few things to focus on.
1) Audio controls and editing
2) Minor video clipping
The most important thing to know is how to edit your sound clips.
Each student will need to use audacity to record their voice. Then in Premiere they will need to import their mp3 recordings by clicking on the Add Media button at the top left of the screen (the plus symbol). Your imported audio should show up in the Media window which will enable you to just drag your audio or video files to your timeline.
Now the editing begins. Notice how you can add multiple sound tracks. The Zoom tool will be a useful tool when you need to edit at specific times. To cut out extra audio use the click and drag method or use the razor tool. To adjust volume just move the yellow line that goes through the audio clips and move it vertically.
Sometimes a group may need to cut some video clips. Just use the same click and drag method or use the razor tool and delete the unwanted clip.
Posted by kotawa at 09:01 AM
September 26, 2006
Kei's night shift
今日は。Just testing the language feature...it looks like it works if you copy and paste. You can't directly type it in...
Went over Premiere stuff with Kindra and Natalia. Updated the LLC website.
Things I need to do tomorrow morning...
1) Organize the website folder-we no longer need world news.
2) Set up Premiere instructions and step by step process review. Watch DVD.
3) Fix blog feeder for language events.
Posted by kotawa at 09:00 PM
September 20, 2006
kei's morning shift
made my inspiration diagram
i found the dvd tutorial for premiere elements
Posted by kotawa at 10:07 AM
September 19, 2006
kei's night shift
several things happened
2 movies were shown during my shift. It ended smoothly. No problems.
I put the key to the SML 117 teaching station in the SML 117 lockbox.
I converted the audacity instructions to pdf and linked it to the seedwiki page.
Posted by kotawa at 10:28 PM
kei's shift
several things...
1) checked some things for the new willamette world news site. it looks like we need to set up categories and subcategories for countries and names. i'm still looking into how we are going to put images.
2) checked for adobe video tutorials but couldn't find it. i don't think it is built in because the video tutorial developer is a third party developer.
3) ms. lazaryeva, the russian t.a. came in to reserve the classroom for tomorrow(9/20) at 8 p.m. to show a russian movie. her email address is glazarye@willamette.edu
Posted by kotawa at 01:25 PM
September 13, 2006
kei's morning shift
a quiet morning but one problem
prof. gr couldn't log in to the teaching station in sml 117
there is a special password
i had to talk to the tech people about it
Posted by kotawa at 10:11 AM
September 12, 2006
kei's night shift
nothing much happening
i helped the spanish TA with the movie
I talked to michael about the Amadou project
the meeting with Allison was postponed until thursday at 11:30
Posted by kotawa at 08:54 PM
kei's shift
i removed the blog feed on the llc resource page. i thought it was unnecessary.
i trained dimitry on dreamweaver and he put the tv station table on the resource page. not too bad for the first time.
updated the willamette abroad list
Posted by kotawa at 01:30 PM
September 06, 2006
kei's morning shift
Two french classes came in and took a brief tour of le patron and blackboard.
Looked at WinPitch as a possible new program for asian languages.
Posted by kotawa at 09:56 AM
September 05, 2006
Kei's shift
Lots of things going on...I can't sort it all out but here it goes
1) Talked to Natalia and Rosista about upcoming plans with the LLC
2) Meeting with Allison next week Tuesday at 11:30 at the LLC to discuss new website, world news, and willamette abroad. Everyone else can join me!
3) video tutorials on the LLC home drive check it out
4) website updates...took care of llc events and walton 21 schedule
that's all i can remember, i'm sure there's more...
Posted by kotawa at 02:01 PM | Comments (0)
July 11, 2006
Kei's Summer Shift
The new LLC website is up! We have a new poster in the computer lab. Lately I've been working on multimedia training materials.
Posted by kotawa at 05:59 PM
June 14, 2006
Auralog
www.tellmemoreeducation.com
Lots of fun but only 4 languages are offered.
Posted by kotawa at 01:53 PM
June 12, 2006
Kei's summer shift
just testing the rss aggregator...
Posted by kotawa at 12:06 PM | Comments (0)
Kei's summer shift
just testing the rss aggregator...
Posted by kotawa at 12:06 PM
May 31, 2006
Kei's summer shift
More work on the llc website design. Movin' right along...
Posted by kotawa at 03:09 PM | Comments (0)
May 23, 2006
Kei's Summer Shift
Backed up span365 files.
Researched DL Recorder.
Researched new ideas for LLC website.
Updated Chinese page.
Podcastmaker:
This is a program created by Potion Factory. It's a simple application for creating Podcasts (only for Mac). You can download or find more information at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/podcastmaker.html.
Posted by kotawa at 12:05 PM | Comments (0)
April 28, 2006
kei's shift
Ghosting is still going but it looks like Mitch has it under control. Remember that the French examinations are on Firefox.
Posted by kotawa at 09:00 AM
April 19, 2006
kei's shift
What a slow day...but it's a day off from school so I can't complain. It's a regular work schedule today and Natalia will be out all day.Posted by ckari at 10:07 AM | Comments (0)
April 05, 2006
kei's shift
Lots of phone calls this morning! Whew! I checked the VCR because there were some problems with the French News tape from Tuesday afternoon. Apparently there were some sound problems and display problems. Everything should be fine now but if the problem persists we may need to look into it. It would be great if someone could check tonight if the recording went smooth. keiPosted by kotawa at 09:56 AM | Comments (0)
April 02, 2006
kei's shift
Welcome back! Spring break is over and classes are back. The LLC is back and it looks like movabletype is updated with new appealing look! keiPosted by kotawa at 11:03 PM | Comments (0)
March 15, 2006
kei's shift
Linda Gerlits (4351)(lgerlits@willamette.edu) came in this morning to pick up her German CD. She said she will talk to Natalia about how long she will keep the CD.
k
Posted by kotawa at 10:03 AM
March 10, 2006
kei's shift
The CD-ROM/DVD-RAM works !!! Yeay! So I reinstalled Roxio on to the computer with the projector in the LLC and I installed Roxio on the teaching station in the classroom. So, burning DVD is all good now!
kei
Posted by kotawa at 09:03 AM
March 06, 2006
computer problems
So I was working on the main computer that's connected to the projector and I noticed that both the DVD-RAM drive and the CD-ROM drive are corrupted and currently not working. I tried getting them to function again but an error keeps coming up. Could someone look into this? I'm not good at hardware stuff.
This should be fixed ASAP before someone uses it and panics because it is hooked up to the projector in the LLC lab.
thanks!
k
Posted by kotawa at 11:05 PM
March 05, 2006
kei's shift
Lots of people today.
I tried to set up the tv in the corner. The tv is hooked up to the vcr but no cable connection.
Posted by kotawa at 10:59 PM
March 03, 2006
kei's shift
Updated the Willamette Abroad page but apparently there were some some changes with the site due to some administrative updating so the blogs have been wiped out.
Posted by kotawa at 09:00 AM
March 01, 2006
kei's shift
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ!
Prof. Courtin-Schreiner called me this morning requesting that she would like to have a program on OPB recorded. I don't know if this is possible because we don't get OPB anymore but I said we can look into it.
The program is on Thursday at 8 p.m. called Pink Martini Life on the OPB channel. Is this something we can do? If not, please let Prof. Courtin-Schreiner know.
Hristo this is for you. You have several items left in the cabinet for you. One is a textbook for speech and the other is a DVD from Prof. Fofana.
Posted by kotawa at 09:56 AM
February 24, 2006
kei's shift
Set up camera for Prof. Fofana.
happy friday!
Posted by kotawa at 09:00 AM
February 23, 2006
kei's shift cover for caitlyn
Covered caitlyn's shift for about an hour.
Natalia, there are some magazines for you in the llc lab.
Posted by kotawa at 02:03 PM
February 22, 2006
kei's shift
Natalia went home because she wasn't feeling well but she plans on coming back this afternoon.
The Russian movie is in the cabinet marked "sht"
happy hump day!
Posted by kotawa at 09:58 AM
February 15, 2006
kei's shift
I did some cleaning and sorted out the cabinet. I tried uploading the chinese audio files but I forgot that I'm the TA for the fall semester class not the spring semester. I took the german tape out and so it is ready to go! The video tape is in the cabinet. Natalia is sick so if you have any questions for her you can call her or email her. keiPosted by kotawa at 10:02 AM | Comments (0)
February 03, 2006
kei's shift
Whew, a busy morning for once...
I've created a template for our new website so it might be a good idea to use it for easy updating.
Ana Montero came in today to look for a DVD called "butterflies". We could not find it. It was supposed to be in the "room" but it was not there. I looked in the cabinet and the booth but it could not be found. If you know where it is please let her know because she needs it for her class today. Her email address is below.
amontero@willamette.edu
Lastly, a student came in to watch the french news.
Posted by kotawa at 08:56 AM | Comments (0)
February 01, 2006
kei's shift
i found the integrated chinese cd so we need to start putting some audio files from that cd to blackboard
first we need to convert mp4 to mp3
then we can start uploading those files to blackboard
the CDs are in the cabinet in a manila folder
Posted by kotawa at 09:59 AM
January 27, 2006
kei's shift
uploaded the WAL 21 class schedule to the llc website...
Posted by kotawa at 09:01 AM | Comments (0)
January 25, 2006
Kei's shift
Cleaned up Willamette Abroad. I found some bugs which means that there are probably more. This may be why we have those errors.
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January 18, 2006
Kei's shift
First shift of the semester!!!
Changed some links on Willamette Abroad.
Cleaned up the lab.
Gave Alex a tour of LLC lab.
Prof. Blanco came in to ask a question on blog. Apparently she wants to automatic approval with email submissions but it's not working.
Posted by kotawa at 10:05 AM
December 07, 2005
kei's morning shift
Three phone calls within one hour...wow.
Did some research on Publisher. It appears that it is not included in XP Pro because I believe it is illegal to bundle software with the operating system. So, to install Publisher we need Office XP Pro.
Posted by kotawa at 09:02 AM
November 18, 2005
Kei's shift
Covered Rebekeh's shift for about an hour.
IMPORTANT!!!
When downloading audio files from blackboard you may encounter some problems especially when using Netscape. Blackboard may freeze a some point and the audio file may open in the browser. It will be easier if the audio file opens in Windows Media Player. To do this go to tools > options and file types. Click on MP3 so that the player can read mp3. This should automatically open the audio file in Windows Movie Maker.
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November 17, 2005
Kei's shift
Covered Rebekeh's shift. I was supposed to talk to Mike Reich who knows a lot about XML but he had some scheduling conflicts so the meeting was postponed until next week.
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November 06, 2005
Kei's shift
Helped out two SPAN 365 groups.
A student from SPAN 331 came in to watch a video in the "Room".
Here are some steps to follow when helping out SPAN 365 students.
SPANISH 365 DUBBING PROJECT
1) Map Network Drive
a. My Computer > Tools > Map Network Drive
b. \\home\span365
2) Set up
a. Microphone
b. Speakers (optional)
c. Video folder/Audio folder
3) Open Windows MovieMaker
a. New Project.
b. New Collections folder.
c. Save Project.
4) Import Video to Collections folder.
5) Drag movie clips to bottom timeline.
6) Edit and narrate.
7) Save all work.
More details are in the llc home drive in the "notes" folder or on the LLC seedwiki page.
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October 23, 2005
kei's shift
Nothing much...worked on international education website.
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October 16, 2005
Kei's shift
Nothing much tonight. Cleaned up a little and did some work for the Office of International Education. Also helped a multi-cert student.
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October 12, 2005
Kei's shift
Nothin much...just some small things like clean up and some website things. I added Phoebe to Argentina in the Willamette Abroad site.
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October 09, 2005
Kei's shift
Another quiet night in the LLC.
Put some stuff on the Atelier blog.
I checked Room 235 and everything seems fine. I couldn't get into Room 236 because it was locked so if someone could check the the tv in 236 that would be great.
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October 05, 2005
Kei's morning shift
Nothin much. I cleaned out the new cabinet and put the cds in. Also, the booth is a little cleaner.
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October 02, 2005
Kei's shift
Nothing much. Quiet.
Just helped someone with span365.
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September 28, 2005
Kei's shift
Not much again...just some more research on javascripts.
Posted by kotawa at 09:07 PM | Comments (0)
Kei's shift
Not much happening.
Uploaded some information on the LLC wiki.
Worked on some International Education stuff.
Posted by kotawa at 09:25 AM | Comments (0)
September 25, 2005
Kei's shift
So much stuff yet so little time.
1) Found out how plugins work on Dreamweaver. It's really simple if it's QuickTime. I added information on plugins in the llc wiki.
2) Still trying to figure out how .ico files work on webpages. Very frustrating!
3) Whoever built the new cabinet did something wrong. It needs to be rebuilt. The glass won't fit because the hinge that holds the glass is backwards. The top button thing is on the wrong side. So the piece of wood that holds the button thing needs to be turned around. The glass won't go on if we don't fix it.
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September 21, 2005
Kei's Shift
I couldn't find the key to get into the computer lab.
People were still in there watching a movie. I called Campus Safety but they never showed up so I couldn't get in for my shift but I worked in the Multimedia Room.
I finished cleaning the LLC home drive.
I also found out that .pdf files work on blogs. We can upload a .pdf file and link it.
Posted by kotawa at 08:59 PM | Comments (0)
Kei's shift
A quiet shift.
I was able to clean the server and the LLC home drive. All images are now in the images folder. Otherwise I left old files in the archives folder.
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September 18, 2005
IMPORTANT!
Kei's Shift
There was a lot going on today.
1) I cleaned up the server but I stored old items in the llc home drive.
2) I am currently trying to clean up the llc home drive. I'm putting all old images into the images and keep those. I'm moving all important documents to the "llc notes" folder and later it will be put on seedwiki. Old files will remain in the "archives folder". I will not touch other folders with people's name on it. I am mainly concerned with the website stuff. There's so much stuff!
3) Added some things for the index page for the llc website.
4) Several Spanish 365 students came in today to do their first recordings to dubb tv shows into spanish. We had some problems. Read more in the extended entry...IT'S IMPORTANT!
We recorded some clips but we didn't get any audio.
To fix this problem:
1. Go to the settings on PCTV (the button looks like a wrench).
2. Click Audio tab.
3. Under device drop down box click SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio.
4. Leave TV playback LIne-in.
5. Change the sound recording input to "What U Hear".
Now there should be sound recorded also. I fixed this problem on all of the computers so it should be fine.
SPAN 365 students should have access to the SPAN 365 home drive to save their recordings. Make sure they label them accordingly.
\\home\span365
These students may come in during the day to ask questions.
They are:
Janel Addicott
Torey Jovick
Scott Bowles
Rebecca Norton
Suggestions for future recordings:
1-Get speakers and a better isolated location for recordings.
2-Clean up old files in the Collections folder on Movie Maker.
3-Use Roxio Movie Creator to create DVDs (we need to install them first)
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September 15, 2005
Kei's shift
Did some more work on Carp but no success. I give up. I can't do anything else to it.
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September 14, 2005
Kei's shift
Several things happened...
1) Worked on Willamette abroad again, everything looks good but there are a few gliches still especially in the index page.
2) I couldn't find the .mp3 files for the Integrated Chinese Audio. If you use firefox it will ask to save or open and students should save it and open it with quicktime. Windows Media Player won't recognize that format.
3) I learned some new things with code. There are a lot of free codes out there. I'm trying to figure out how to create favorite icons for bookmarks.
4) I trained Zan tonight. She put some stuff up on the index page of our website but unfortunately there are some problems and the pic is not centered correctly on IE but it's fine on firefox and netscape.
I also trained her how to use blackboard so she is ready to upload files to courses.
Posted by kotawa at 09:04 PM | Comments (0)
Kei's shift
Several problems this morning.
1) The Chinese Integrated Audio does not work on blackboard. My guess is that blackboard does not work with mpeg 4 yet. Can we reformat those audio files to something that blackboard can recognize?
2) LLC home drive is FULL! We cannot save anymore on it. So we need to clean up. Delete old files that we don't need.
Posted by kotawa at 09:03 AM | Comments (0)
September 11, 2005
Kei's Shift
A few people came in today. Two people actually used the viewing room.
1) I took care of the Integrated Chinese MP4 files. They are all on blackboard but I left the old files on.
2) I tried to fix the Carp error but there are still some gliches. I'll continue researching.
3) THERE ARE NO DRY ERASE MARKERS IN THE CLASSROOM. We might need to go get some more from upstairs.
4) Quelle is not on the Software H drive folder. Why not? Atajo and Systeme D are but not Quelle. hmmmm...
5) I tried cleaning up the booth a little bit but I think it will be cleaned soon when the cabinet is built.
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