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Try these Jing learning modules

The videos below provide 'how-to' information that not only talks you through various computer and research functions, but shows you how to use them in video format. Play them as often as you like until you become comfortable with them. (See also the text based how-to, Make It Work)

Want to suggest another module? Just email me to explain what's needed and why.

The following are Jing tutorials unless otherwise noted:

  1. Accessing Your Course Learning Materials
  2. Reviewing Papers using the Discussion Board on D2L (swf file)
    Before you deposit the document for review, make sure to save your paper as an .rtf formatted document with a one word alphanumeric filename. Otherwise, some students may not be able to open it. Be careful to always promise to review as a reply to the original student's discussion board entry, and then return the paper as a further reply under the student's primary entry so that everything stays together. See also
  3. Revision: Peer review is just the first step. Now, you as the author of a paper must revise it. To help you do that, I've given you several websites to assist you:
  4. Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism Internally, cite either using parenthetical citation AND ALSO show the sources in a work cited section. Remember to cite sources for images, graphs, and tables within their captions.
  5. Depositing a Paper on D2L's Dropbox. (swf file)
    Before you send the document, make sure it is written in full block memo format, single spaced with a space between paragraphs, and Times New Roman 12 point font. Save your paper as a .rtf formatted document with a one word alphanumeric filename. Make sure your name is on both the paper and the D2L submission memo. When you send your paper to the dropbox, you will get email confirmation of its reception.
  6. Understanding grades and getting feedback on D2L
  7. Doing Quality Research: Using Using Google vs. Google Scholar
    1. Using and citing things found on Google
    2. Using Google Scholar
    3. Using Google Scholar 2
    4. Using Google Scholar 3

    Please remember: When working with books, articles, websites, WHETHER DIRECTLY QUOTING OR PUTTING THE IDEAS IN YOUR OWN WORDS, you must cite your sources in BOTH parenthetical citation AND the Work Cited section. Only directly quote very, very small hunks of a few words (or lines of poetry, etc.). Putting quotation marks around large hunks of text keeps you fairly safe from academic dishonesty charges, but I then would need to give someone else credit for writing the paper, not you. So, the authors of some articles or books get and A and you (who wrote little or nothing) get an F. Similarly, do not believe that just changing or moving around a word or two avoids plagiarism. Sorry, no luck and no cigar! Why? You're clearly copying all the OTHER words in the sentence as well as trying to pass that author's work and thinking of as your own. When in doubt about how to cite sources, go to either Writing A Paper For Me or the English Department's site on Academic Integrity.

  8. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
  9. Middle English
    1. Reading Middle English
      1. Part 1: Breaks off abruptly. Go on to part 2.
      2. Part 2
      3. Part 3
      4. Middle English Orthography (References writing Middle English characters in Microsoft Word when writing your papers and other times when you need them.)
    2. Using the M.E. Dictionary
  10. Using Wimba:
    [Note: Wimba requires sound capacity. Most newer computers have built in microphones or can accept stand alone microphones or headsets. Not sure if yours does? Check with your favorite techy! Microphones, as it happens, are cheap. My headset cost less than $12.00 at Circuit City. You can buy expensive audio equipment if you want, but you certainly don't have to do so for my courses.]
    1. Using the Voice Boards
    2. Using the Wimba Live Classroom (Note: Problems with Wimba live classroom? Contact Wimba Live Classroom Support 24/7 at 1- 866-350-4978. Remember that you don't need sound capacity on your computer to use the Live Classroom. Click on the phone icon within your live classroom session, and you'll get a phone number and classroom number that will let you call in that way. It is, unfortunately, not a toll free number.)
    3. Giving a talk on the Wimba Live Classroom. You'll need to present your paper as a talk on Wimba's Live Classroom in your small groups. Here's how

      Keeping track of who's who in the Wimba Classroom: Remember that nobody can see your face! State your name clearly as you enter the room, and also when you begin your talk and as you ask questions. I otherwise can't tell who's talking to give grades. .
    4. Wimba Live Classroom Talks. Second discussion. Also, remember to select a moderator, who'll turn on and off the archive, and to email me to confirm your talk title and when you gave it. One big reason your group needs a moderator is that only one person should be in charge of managing archiving or it will keep getting turned on and off. When everyone is in the room and the group is ready to start doing the talks, make sure a moderator has been selected.

      Archiving:       When you go in to the Wimba Classroom, you'll see that archiving is off. The little button is at the top of the area on the right. The person the group chooses to act as moderator must click it, and will then hear it say that it's starting the archive. It takes a minute, and then it says that archiving is on. At the end of everyone's talk, the person chosen as moderator then clicks the archive button again to turn it off. Again, it speaks, telling the moderator that it's archiving, and then telling you that it's done.

    5. Listening to an archived Wimba Classroom session. This short tutorial teaches you how to go in and listen to your own or other people's Wimba Classroom Talks.
  11. Microsoft Word 2007. It doesn't much matter what software you use for word processing so long as you know how to use your own AND you save the document you want to transmit in a format that is viewable by everyone. This section explains how to make Peer Review Comments using 2007 version of Word. It also discusses saving your word file as a .doc or .rtf file rather than a .docx, .wps, or other file format.
    [Note: If your word processing software doesn't have a comments function, just put brackets after the item upon which you wish to comment and type them in there in red]

    Note: if you have problems saving or transmitting documents, you need to contact the Help Desk. I'm not the tech person, and can only give you these general instructions.

12. Allophonic/Phonetic Sounds
      Note: This goes with the Phonetics website, which uses the same
                logon and password as this site.

    1. Consonants
    2. Vowels
    3. Allophonic Variations on /t/

 

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2006; Last edited May 20, 2010
Bonnie Duncan
Millersville University
bduncan@millersville.edu
Date created: February 20, 2008; last edited January 29, 2009

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