How to show CC on your SmartBoard with DVDs

From: Kehoe, Yvonne M.
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:37 PM
To: All FH North High Employees
Cc: Miller, Cynthia L.; Cobb, Deborah L.; Brewer, Lawanda Dawn; Kelly, Christine Elaine
Subject: Showing Closed Captioning

I had a representative from Schillers come out to help us with our closed captioning (CC) woes.  The Sign Language Interpreters informed me that some of you were having trouble getting CC on a DVD.  Here is my advice if you are showing a DVD:  play it through your computer and not your DVD/VHS player.  If you go through your computer (and your computer is hooked up to your SMART Board speakers), you should either have the option of selecting English subtitles or CC.  Here are the steps to follow:

1.                   Put the movie into the DVD drive on your computer and show it through your computer, not the DVD/VHS player.

2.                   Go through MY COMPUTER and click on the DVD symbol.  The movie should start showing on your computer screen.

3.                   On the Play Bar at the bottom of the screen (where you see the -> to play, the box to stop, and the || to pause), there will be the letters “DVD” in all caps to the left.  Click on that.

4.                   Select “special features”

5.                   Select “captions”

6.                   Select “closed captioned”

You do not have to go through the above steps if the movie has “Language” as an option on the movie menu; you can select it and find English subtitles (using your mouse) as an alternative.  If you are showing a movie that does not have English subtitles (and we found some that do exist), you should be able to follow the above instructions and get CC.

Let me know if you are having any difficulties after following the above steps.

As for showing VHS tapes and getting CC…we’re still working on that.  It looks like the only option for now is to:  a) find another, more update movie on a DVD with the same content, or b) hook up the cable from your VHS player to a TV/VCR combo as you have been doing.

Angie Gunnell just sent out an email pertaining to purchasing DVD’s to support your curriculum…perfect timing.  Take this as an opportunity to purchase those newer movies on DVD format (if available) that have CC.

As most of you are aware, equal access to all information is the law (ADA).  Call me or ask your friendly Sign Language Interpreter to assist you.

Thank you,

Yvonne Kehoe

Teacher of the Deaf/HH

Francis Howell North High School

September Tech Committee Notes

Tech Meeting

9/24/14

·         FHN Blog

o   Tagging the blog

o   Naming Protocol for easy searching

§  Using the “Labels” feature

·         IC

·         MC

·         Articles

·         Instructional tools

·         Sharpschool

·         Schoology

·         Google Accounts

·         Tutorials

·         Tech Updates

·         Tech Committee

·         Voicethread

§  Also can use the search tool

·         Updates from ITS/IWS meeting

o   Learned Schoology and Voicethread

o   Voicethread accounts are ready

·         Updates from IT meeting

·         Updates from Media Specialists

o   Hotspots are ready for checkout

o   Communicate this to all when student laptops are ready

·         Other Updates

o   Email messenger in IC

§  Will put in the blog

 

·         Possible Lunch and Learn Topics-Oct, Nov, Jan, Feb, Mar, April

o   Luigi and Raphael’s as possible vendor

o   Sharepoint-Birch or Ben will present 2^nd semester

o   FHSD Google Accounts/Google Docs-Aaron Manfull on 10/24

o   Creating a Schoology account for your class-11/14 with Gina Hartman

o   VoiceThread (we are getting a district subscription to this)-LMS

§  In December

 

·         Update from Tech site visit and Ray Eernisse

o   Mastery Connect

§  May be pushing out an upgrade district wide

§  Issues with scoring MC and writing tests put together

§  Bottom line-continue to use the curriculum maps to get assessments

§  There may be more MC training documents placed on Howellnet or other resource

o   Browser issues

§  IE 9/Chrome—suggested that you use Chrome as main browser…there may be something soon that will suggest which browser to use for each program

o   HP Audio/Video issues

§  HP is working on this and has fixed the audio with a filter device that plugs into the docking station

·         Audio filters

§  They are working on the video issue

o   New iPad 2 Cart from District budget request last year

o   Extra laptop cart w/ s-cards (request from Ray)

o   Extra former teacher laptops

o   Purchasing the replacement projectors and printers

o   AP for guidance/ Guidance will be getting new devices, etc.

o   Where are we with Sharepoint? Share drive may be gone by fall break?

o   Work order report once a month

o   Top 5 IT problems for data collection and survey feedback on work orders for next year

o   13-14,000 devices in district

o   How do we let parents know to encourage students to bring laptop/tablets to school

o   Eventually top websites will be monitored

o   Staff survey coming as well in 3^rd quarter

o   Copiers-get locations for all copiers (109 and main office)

o   Wiring for APs coming now and APs will be added as well by maybe end of the year

 

·         What other data could we use?

o   What percentage of our students have Smart Phones

Labels

Here is the list of labels to use for your blog entries:

Sharpschool Website

Instructional Tools

Articles

Tech Committee Information

Technology Updates

Gadgets

Tutorials

Infinite Campus

Mastery Connect

Google Accounts

Schoology

Test

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Resizing images for your website

These two videos will give you some insight as to how to resize your images to use on the website. Sometimes images are too wide, other times their file size is just too big. Both of these tutorials should help give you some options for resizing to make your images fit on your site.

To access the district's video on how to resize images on a PC, follow these instructions:

1. Login to Atomic Learning here: https://www.atomiclearning.com/k12/login/fhsdschools (You can find the login button at the top of the page.) Your login to Atomic Learning is the same login that you use for your school email and Infinite Campus.
2. Once you have logged in, click on this link for the Resizing Images video.

If you would like a bit more precise of a tool to size your image for the web, consider using the website resizeyourimage.com. You can find a tutorial I made on it here that shows how to use it once you know what size you want your image to be. 

• Access the ResizeYourImage.com video here

Tech Committee Agenda

Tech Meeting

9/24/14

·         FHN Blog

o   Tagging the blog

o   Naming Protocol for easy searching

·         Updates from ITS/IWS meeting

·         Updates from IT meeting

·         Updates from Media Specialists

·         Other Updates

o   Email messenger in IC

§  Won’t be available until next year

 

·         Possible Lunch and Learn Topics-Oct, Nov, Jan, Feb, Mar, April

o   Luigi and Raphael’s as possible vendor

o   Review topics covered at Tech Fest

o   Sharepoint-October 3^rd May change

§  Birch or Ben will present

o   FHSD Google Accounts/Google Docs-Aaron

o   VoiceThread (we are getting a district subscription to this)-LMS

 

o   Other Support needed

§  IC Messenger for teachers to send out emails to parents and/or students

·         Still checking

·         Update from Tech site visit and Ray Eernisse

o   Mastery Connect

§  May be pushing out an upgrade district wide

§  Issues with scoring MC and writing tests put together

§  Bottom line-continue to use the curriculum maps to get assessments

§  There may be more MC training documents placed on Howellnet or other resource

o   Browser issues

§  IE 9/Chrome—suggested that you use Chrome as main browser…there may be something soon that will suggest which browser to use for each program

o   HP Audio/Video issues

§  HP is working on this and has fixed the audio with a filter device that plugs into the docking station

§  They are working on the video issue

o   New iPad 2 Cart from District budget request last year

o   Extra former teacher laptops

o   Purchasing the replacement projectors and printers

o   AP for guidance/ Guidance will be getting new devices, etc.

o   Where are we with Sharepoint? Share drive may be gone by fall break?

o   Work order report once a month

o   Top 5 IT problems for data collection and survey feedback on work orders for next year

o   13-14,000 devices in district

o   How do we let parents know to encourage students to bring laptop/tablets to school

o   Eventually top websites will be monitored

o   Staff survey coming as well in 3^rd quarter

o   Copiers-get locations for all copiers (109 and main office)

 

·         What other data could we use?

 

Microsoft Lync Tutorial Resources

Microsoft Lync is a teleconferencing software pre-installed on all teacher laptops. 

Since there hasn't been any formal training on it, here are some resources.

Here are some videos in Atomic Learning:

http://www.atomiclearning.com/k12/microsoft-lync-training

This is also a helpful resource:

http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetId=HA102145938&lcid=1033&NS=OCO14&Version=14&pid=CL102175023