Monthly Archives: March 2008

Integration Ideas Using a Document Camera (.doc)

101 Ways to use the Visualizer with Instruction (.doc)

Steps to make closed captioning (CC) work in Windows Media Player 11:

1. Download the video and CC file from Discovery Streaming to the same directory, and make sure they have the same name. The video file can be an ASF, ASX, or WMV. The CC file must be a SMI file.

2. Open the video file you downloaded. Windows Media Player should run.

3. Open the “Play” menu (if you do not see the Play menu, press the ALT key on the keyboard). Select “Lyrics, captions, and subtitles”, and click “On if Available”.

4.  Open the “Tools” menu, and click on “Options”.  Select the “Security” tab.  Make sure the following boxes ARE checked:  “Run script commands when present”, “Run script commands and rich media streams when the player is in a Web page”, and “Show local captions when present”.  Click the “OK” button.

5.  Close Windows Media Player.  Open the video file again, and it should play with captions.

– Jason Braddy
Manager, Technical Services

If you have a laptop with a “pointing stick,” or “blue knobby gizmo,” you may have had the experience that your cursor jumps around as you type. This can be especially annoying if you are typing something from an article and not watching the screen.Here’s how to disable the pointing stick.

Latitude E6400

1. Disable Pointing Stick:
   • Click on Start>Settings>ControlPanel>Mouse (double-click)
   • Click on “Big Brown Arrow,” Button Settings, Device Select
   • Disable Pointing Stick and Stick Buttons
   • Click “Apply”

Latitude D630

1. Download this driver ~Thanks to Efrin Ortiz for finding and sharing the driver.
2. Install the driver (restart if prompted)
3. Disable Pointing Stick:
   • Click on Start>Settings>ControlPanel>Mouse (double-click)
   • Click on “Big Brown Arrow,” Button Settings, Device Select
   • Disable Pointing Stick and Stick Buttons
   • Click “Apply”

 Latitude D620: Disabling Pointing Stick

Be careful to create folders for each of your different kinds of content

Each category hold only its own kinds…

• Collections will take everything though
• Resource library can be moved around the screen

If you use a “magic viewer,” be sure to bring it out last so that its on the “top” layer. Otherwise right-click on it and send it to the Top. For example if you have a google map under a google earth pic. Double click on the top pic. Click on properties. And choose the “top” layer.

When you download a resource pack from Promthean Planet, be sure to pay attention to where the resources import to when you double-click on the downloaded file.  To save time, if you’ve downloaded lots of resource packs at once, don’t reindex until you’ve installed the last one.

two types of Desktop Flipcharts

• page backgrounds are live
• photo desktop flipchart

Camera tool:

• easiest to use “area” to capture any image on display on the computer
• save to flipchart (1st option) if the easiest to use

Use “user defined buttons” to add shortcuts on toolbar, for example, Avervision, Firefox, GIMP

?SNA (A=arrange windows) great for sizing flipchart in order to show a web browser and flipchart side by side

You can use properties, insert, flipchart link to link to other pages within the flipcharts…. link stays attached to specific page even if the order of the pages within that flipchart changes

Important! Before sharing a flipchart, go to menu flipcharts and fill out “Summary” then “embed file actions.” Finally choose save. This will give users a way to find the flipchart they need and the videos and audio files will be embedded in it.