Poster Printing

Poster printing

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April 30th

This week was dedicated creating Ideas for the lab next week and working on the printer tutorial. The tutorial is almost done, I will finish it this weekend and email it out to the group to make revisions.
The ideas that I have for next year are:
-Creating Learning contracts that hold students responsible for their individual projects.
-Lab involvement in campus activities at the beginning of the year such as GSA cookouts etc.
-Continuing the Blogging next year
-Having lab employees gear their lab work towards professional development (roundtable discussion, poster presentations, journal articles, etc.)
-Maybe have past lab GA's come in and explain the position one day during the training.

April 23rd

This week I gave a brief tutorial to the lab staff on the operation of the poster printer. I have also had a few opportunities to use the poster printer for SOE staff members. There are a variety of formats that a poster can be saved in, and I think that I have found a way to make a uniform print method. My tutorial is now in development.

March 12-15

I have spent this week installing printer drivers on various computers. I have installed color printer drivers on the Hallway PC that is attached to the TV. I have also installed the poster printer drivers on Laptop 1, 8, and 11. I have also installed it on Mac #1. The poster printer is now operational. On Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, I was trained by Butch Hilton on the capabilities of poster printers. It is a bit tricky, but I am in the process of making a tutorial. In the mean time, If anyone has questions, please schedule a time to sit down with me and I will be happy to help.

April 5-9

Using the suggestions provided last week I have attempted to complete the audio intro to the blog page. I have recorded an audio intro using audacity. I have also attempted to place this uploaded recording on my page. I have used various players and uploaded the file to various servers. I thought that It may be best to use scholar as the host, because each of us already have a scholar page. I am working with David to determine if the file should be saved as a streaming podcast or if it can be a basic file. We have tried both ways, and I am not sure why the file is not playing, but I will continue to work with it. Blogger is giving me an error message Once I find a formula that works, I will create a Camtasia tutorial that will provide step by step instructions on how to record, upload, link and embed the audio file to the page.

I also ran across an interesting article that discusses the use of Blogs to enhance reflection and Community of Practice. I will email this article to each of you, because blogger will not allow me to upload the article. This article could be useful for AECT.

March 29- April 2

During this week I have experimented with adding an audio introduction and media player to the blog. I have only been able to add songs to the site (I got the idea from Andy's page). I want to use audacity to create an audio introduction, however the blog does not recognize the mp3 format. I am attempting to find a way to develop or use an existing html code to embed a player within the site. The mp3 players that I have found only play music files found online. I am thinking that I will need to create a subsequent page to house the audacity recording so that it will be recognized by one of the existing players. If someone has any ideas on a better way to add an audio recording to the site, I am open to any suggestions.

During this week I have also began to work with the poster printer. I have loaded the paper into the machine. I have loaded the software on the Dell computers in the production lab. However, I am having quite a bit of trouble getting the network to recognize the printer. I have loaded the printer software to laptop #1. I am currently exploring the parameters and printer capabilities. Please let me know if you have a printer that you wish to have printed, and I can use your project for practice.

March 22-26

This week began with preparation for the GSA Symposium. Monday we reviewed the content for the presentation. On Tuesday, the poster printer arrived. I assembled the printer. We found that the printer needs to be connected to a dedicated Ethernet port. I will need to configure the IP address and install the software to a computer in order for it to work. Wednesday, we presented our information at the GSA Symposium. Thursday, we set up the 220L classroom in preparation of Elza's smartboard training session.

I am now looking to find innovative uses for video blogging in the lab. I will attempt to implement some use of this during the upcoming week.

march 15-19

During this week I have been considering how to use the blog features. I have been using some of the html coding features to change the display of the blog text. I feel that this feature may help to increase the overall appearance of our blogs. I am not very familiar with html coding, so I have been using the following website to better understand coding http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_marquee_code.cfm.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO POST YOUR WEEKLY ENTRY BY FRIDAY AT 11:59PM

Adding Links to other blog pages

Now that each of us has our blog set up, we must now link our blogs to the other Lab GA’s blogs.

1) Log on to your blogger account and select “View Blog”

This will take you to your blog page.

2) At the top of your blog page, you will notice a tool bar. Select the “Customize” tab

This will take you to a page that will allow you to make changes to the look of your blog.

3) Within this screen, there are several links with the name “Add a Gadget.” You must select one of the “Add a Gadget” tabs depending on where on the page you would like the links to your co-workers page links to appear.

Selecting “Add a Gadget” will take you to a list of predetermined gadgets within blogger.

4) Once the list of Gadgets appears, please scroll down until you see the gadget named “Link list.” This link will allow you to add links to other blogs and web pages. We will use this function to link the GA’s pages. Click “Link List”

A window will now show that allows you to configure this gadget.

5) A- In the “Title” bar Please write the name ET Lab Staff

B- In the “New Site URL” bar, insert the URL of the Lab Staff’s blogs (one at a time)

C- In the “New site Name” bar, insert the Full name of the Lab Staff member that created the blog indicated in Step B.

D- Click “Add link”, this should make the name and link appear in the list of links. Please check each link for accuracy prior to

Clicking “Save”

(Repeat Step B-D for each Lab Staff Member)

E- Click “Save”

After clicking “Save”, you will be redirected to the layout screen.

6) Now that you have made changes to your gadget, click “Preview” to view the appearance of your blog with the recent changes. Once you are satisfied with the changes, click “Save”.

Guidelines for Blog Posts

Evaluation Criteria

Each lab GA is responsible for keeping a weekly log of progress on their individual projects. On Friday of each week, each GA will log on to their blog and give an overview of the tasks completed during the week. Blog’s can be submitted via: audio, video, or text format.

Once the weekly blog post has been created, each lab GA is responsible for evaluating the weekly work of their co-workers. All lab GA’s are responsible for providing a critique of the material that include: Weakness, Strengths and Suggestions for improvement. Feedback needs to be provided to co-workers by Wednesday at 11:59pm.