INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CENTER
SUMMER HOURS:
Monday - Friday 9am - 4pm May 29 - Aug. 17
August 18 - 28 available upon request
Fall semester begins Wednesday, August 29.
Tell Me More for French and German is available for class use. There is a poster at the front of the PC area with help in logging on and there is a green card under the keyboard to help you navigate. Please feel free to ask Joan or her student assistants for help.
Please DO NOT set up your own account. Accounts were set up by class - you should log in to TMM with your user name and your password
is the ID # on you school ID. Remember, the first two letters are capitals.
Satellite receiver
for
German - Deutsch
Welle;
Russian - RTVI, and various Spanish stations is available by the sofa in the
IMC. Patrons can choose the station they wish to watch per this list. In addition, there will be 3 monitors by the window that receive the campus network which will have TV 5 for French, Univision for Spanish, AZN for Asian countries and an Arabic station. These can be viewed in classrooms, the IMC and the dorms.
Gramática Viva, an interactive
Spanish grammar CD-ROM
is available for use in the IMC. Please ask at the service desk.
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The IMC provides support
for the study of language and culture as a teaching facility, resource
center and media
library. The processes of acquiring language and culture skills
are enhanced through the use of newspapers, magazines, video, satellite
television, CD-ROMs, and the internet. |
The IMC is an in-house,
multimedia facility located in Academic IV, B wing, rm 219 comprised
of :
- 26 PC station teaching
computer lab (also available for self-study) with Windows XP Pro,
Microsoft Office 2003 with multi-language support
- self-study area of 10 additional PC
stations , a scanner with one PC
- 6 MACs for MLL 495 class use
- 20 station audio cassette
area
- 12 VHS players, 2
multi-standard VHS players, 3 DVD players, satellite reception
area
- classroom for 25 with
a VHS, DVD, computer, dataprojector, overhead projector
- typewriter, computer
printer, copier and transparency services for a fee
- wireless access for
laptops
- library of language
materials - catalog available at service desk and on
line
- Film
Library holdings for various subjects (Psyc, Soc, Afam, Amst,
etc.)
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MONDAY through
THURSDAY 9am - 9pm
FRIDAY 9am - 4pm
SUNDAY 12pm - 6pm *NEW*
Hours will vary during January and summer (usually Mon-Thurs 9am -
4pm)
Phone: 410-455-2464 or 3685 (Joan) |
- typewriter, computer
printer and copier available, transparency services
- video duplication
according to copyright law with a fee (from and to NTSC, PAL,
SECAM)
- audio duplication
of course related language tapes for a fee, 24 hr. service, 1
tape at a time
- Biology lecture tapes/DVDs
available for in-house use and overnight rental (usually Bio 100,
Cell, Genetics - $2 per night, 1 tape at a time)
STREAMING
VIDEO FOR CELL , BIO 100, BIOL305
- satellite reception
for French, German, Spanish and the International Channel
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Advantage- fewer
keystrokes for accents, easier to remember.
Uses punctuation marks as a shortcut for accents.
Go to START-SETTINGS- CONTROL PANEL- LANGUAGE & REGIONAL OPTIONS-
LANGUAGES TAB - DETAILS or INPUT LOCALES tab.
Click "Change" button if it appears.Choose English (US) as the input
language.
Scroll down to English(US) and click on keyboard.Click Add.
In the input box,check keyboard layout/IME.Scroll down and select US
International.
Click OK- Apply- OK.
Once you have set up the choice for the international keyboard,
you still have to highlight it- Click on the keyboard icon the bottom right for that.
For more information,visit this site.
International Keyboard
Help
The above site will also help you with installing other language
inputs,like Japanese & Hebrew. You will get
more information about it on our purple help card under the keyboard. You are welcome to make a
copy of it - Please return it from where you got
it. Also we will have cards with layout available under the keyboard.
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| MSWord SpellChecker for Languages: |
1) Remove "auto correct". Click Tools--> Auto correct options, and
remove
the check mark in "show autocorrect options".
2) Type your composition.
3) Highlight all the text.(or click Edit, and then select all)
4) Click Tools, Language, and Set Language.
5) Set the language to the appropriate language.For Spanish, use
Spanish (Spain- Modern Sort), For French- FRANCE.
6) Click tools,options and Spelling and grammar.Set Grammar options to
"grammar and style"(in language)
7) Click on the spell checker logo to begin checking spelling.
8) Reminder- you need to evaluate the suggestions given by the spell
checker- it is a machine and imperfect- just as the Engish spell checker is-
so don't just say yes to all the options it gives you.
RESOURCES
UMBC HELPDESK:
various help pages - OIT Help Desk
NETSCAPE
SEARCHES:
Recommend GOOGLE, YAHOO,GO.COM, METACRAWLER, MSN SEARCH
To refine your search, please use Albin
O. Kuhn Library Help or the Search
Engine Showdown.
READING CHINESE,
JAPANESE, RUSSIAN WEB PAGES
If you have trouble reading these pages - go to view- encoding -
Cyrillic Windows 1251, JP (auto detect) or CH (big 5).
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Office of Information Technology • Main Office: ECS 125 • Phone: 410-455-3838 • Email: oit@umbc.edu |
