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Tutorials

Audio and video:
- Making an audio recording using Quicktime
- Making a video recording using Quicktime
- Importing sound files from an audio CD
- digitizing audio tapes
- digitizing video from a DVD or VCR
- uploading files to the online materials web site with Dreamweaver
- Creating a qtl. file for QT streaming
- subtitling using Quicktime Pro

Encoding and Fonts

The following information is relevant to the Wesleyan University context and gives explanations on how to type characters into programs supported at the campus level. All information is relevant to Windows XP and Mac OSX.

Windows

1. with codes holding the "Atl" key and typing the numbers on the numeric keypad

¡	Alt + 0161	Õ	Alt + 0213	æ	Alt + 0230	ñ	Alt + 0241
¿	Alt + 0191	Ö	Alt + 0214	ç	Alt + 0231	ò	Alt + 0242
À	Alt + 0192	Ø	Alt + 0216	è	Alt + 0232	ó	Alt + 0243
Ã	Alt + 0195	Ü	Alt + 0220	é	Alt + 0233	ô	Alt + 0244
Ä	Alt + 0196	ß	Alt + 0223	ê	Alt + 0234	õ	Alt + 0245
Å	Alt + 0197	à	Alt + 0224	ë	Alt + 0235	ö	Alt + 0246
Æ	Alt + 0198	á	Alt + 0225	ì	Alt + 0236	ø	Alt + 0248
Ç	Alt + 0199	â	Alt + 0226	í	Alt + 0237	ù	Alt + 0249
É	Alt + 0201	ã	Alt + 0227	î	Alt + 0238	ú	Alt + 0250
Ñ	Alt + 0209	ä	Alt + 0228	ï	Alt + 0239	û	Alt + 0251
		å	Alt + 0229		Alt + 0240	ü	Alt + 0252

2. In the Word help menu, type "keyboard shortcuts for international characters" and it will display the following information:

à, è, ì, ò, ù - À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù	CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
á, é, í, ó, ú, ý - Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ý	CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), the letter
â, ê, î, ô, û Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û	CTRL+^ (CARET), the letter
ã, ñ, õ Ã, Ñ, Õ	CTRL+~ (TILDE), the letter
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü, Ÿ	CTRL+: (COLON), the letter
å, Å	CTRL+@, a or A
æ, Æ	CTRL+&, a or A
œ, Œ	CTRL+&, o or O
ç, Ç	CTRL+, (COMMA), c or C
ð, Ð	CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), d or D
ø, Ø	CTRL+/, o or O
¿	ALT+CTRL+?
¡	ALT+CTRL+!
ß	CTRL+&, s

 

Macintosh:

acute	á, é, í	Option + e, the letter
grave	è,à,ù	Option + `, the letter
tilde	ñ Ñ	Option + n, the letter
circumflex	ê Ê	Option + i, the letter
umlaut	ü Ü	Option + u, the letter
cedilla	ç Ç	Option + c or C
	¿	Option + ?
	ß	Option + s
	¡	Option + 1
	£	Option + 3
	§	Option + 6
	º	Option + 0 (zero)
	oe ligature	Option + q
	€	Shift+Option+2

Language Learning/Teaching Organizations and Resources

ACTFL: The American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages - www.actfl.org

CALICO: The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium - www.calico.org

IALLT: The International Association for Language Learning Technology - www.iallt.org

CARLA: The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition - http://www.carla.umn.edu/index.html

NERALLT: New England Regional Association for Language Laboratory Technology -
http://www.nerallt.unh.edu/

The Yamada Resource Center - http://babel.uoregon.edu/

The Japan Association for Language Teaching - http://www.jalt-publications.org/

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