anthony mostek – noaa national weather service and tom whittaker
Post on 22-Dec-2015
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Today’s training
• Objective: prepare and teach teletraining lessons using VISITview– background– overview– hands-on
• Requirements:– basic DOS experience– Power Point, Corel Draw or something similar– Windows 98, 2000, NT, or XP computer (LINUX or
MACS can be used)
VISITview ProjectVISITview: teletraining / distance-learning / collaboration
software aimed at the meteorological community
• History:– Initiated 1998-1999– Four programmers have contributed– Feedback from instructors directs changes
• Goals:– Complement other training aids– Continue to evolve as needs are identified
VISITview Overview
• Modes– pre-loaded lessons – via a browser (VISITview RAMSDIS Online)
• Participants– master (instructor)– student– listener
• Client/server• Not a slide preparation tool
VISITview Terminology
• Lesson – a collection of pages
• Page – one or more frames
• Frame – a single image (GIF or JPEG)
• Client/server – commands are initiated by the client; the VISITview server redistributes commands
• http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/visitview/terminology.html
VISITview Client-Server
• Training Sessions– the Lesson is downloaded to your local computer
before the scheduled session
– the server is used to distribute the “small” commands to everyone (move pointer, turn to next page, draw text and animations, etc.)
• VISITview RAMSDIS Online– all images are downloaded in real time from the server
– the server is also used to distribute the “small” commands to everyone (move pointer, turn to next page, draw text and animations, etc.)
The Student’s view
• Download a lesson– make a directory, ftp the file, ‘run’ it
– (use a browser for VISITview RAMSDIS Online)
• Voice connection - set up a conference call via phone or yahoo messenger
• Basic mechanics (“knobology”)• Starting up a session
– convenience batch files
Features for students and instructors
• Big Red Pointer– positioning (click)– drawing
• drag for line
• SHIFT+CTRL+drag for box
– change color using choice box
• On - screen help– open (ALT+?)
(in English)– close (any other
key)
Help pop-up
Annotations – drawing and textTo draw free-hand, just “drag” mouse – press button and hold while moving; when you release button, drawing is sent
To draw a box, hold SHIFT+CTRL and “drag” the mouse
To do text, click ALT+T. A | cursor will appear. Type your text. Move it around. Change color. Press “enter” to send it to everyone (press ESC to abandon)
Animation ControlsAnimate or stop
Change colorChange animation speed
Loop or Rock mode
Manually set frame or fade
Fade mode on/off
Toggle between last two frames
Single step back (<) or forward (>)
Labels are dim – example of “disabled” controls
Erase all
User ID and “chat”To initiate a chat window – ALT+C Enter a user or site ID and hit the “submit” button
Chat client window – resizable. All chatting is public – everyone sees everything.
Write here.
Other features
• Zooming – pixel replication
• Enhancements – colorizing images on-the-fly
• Portals - frame within a frame– 4 panels emulation– showing “large” frames
• Overlays available
From the Instructor’s viewpoint
• Creating a lesson: your slides and the Builder
• Packaging and testing
• Distribution
• Doing a lesson
Page and Enhancement Controls
Load next page
Load the selected page
Load previous page
Shows frame number and label / Select page to show
Get client/studentstatus of last load
Choose an enhancement to apply to the current page
Appears red when you have NOTloaded a selected page yet
When beginning, hit Next to load first page
Creating a lesson
• make your slides
• use the VISITview Lesson Builder
• check your lesson
• distribute your lesson
• run a session
Make your slides
• Use Power Point
• Pages consist of one or more frames
• Each frame is a single GIF or JPEG image
• Image size determines VISITview window size
• 640X480 is good
• Portals and other issues
Use the VISITview Lesson Builder
• Start the builder (visitbuild.bat or from start/All programs/VISITview Lesson Builder)
• Use “browse” to gather and organize your pages
• Put labels on each page• Use “file => move” to move things around• Use “save lesson” to save it into a ZIP file
The builder interfaceFile menu
Edit menu
Labels for pages URL for linked text or audio
Initial Big Red Pointer position
Page and frame thumbnailsSlide
through page or frame
Insert
Append
Append all
Browse thumbnail
View pages, frames, portals, or overlays
Browse directory and files
File menuOpen an existing lesson in a ZIP file
Start a new lesson
Save the work as a zip file
Browse for images in a directory
Make a Windows .EXE file drom a .ZIP file
Import Presentation
Make an image from a URL
Unzip File
Exit (if changes, ask to save)
Edit Menu
Undo previous Move or Delete or Insert or Append
To move page or frame:1. select page/frame to move2. click this Move item3. click on destination page/frame
Copy/Delete secected page or frame
Browse for imagesBrowse directories to find file names
Current directory
Thumbnail of last selected file(click so see original size image)
Hints, cues, messages
Insert thumbnail at selected position
Append thumbnailto end (of pages or frames)
Append all
Filenames appear here when you browse.**Click to select one file**CTRL+Click to toggle one or more image files.**SHIFT+Click to select a range of files
Organize Pages and Frames
Type in page label
Initial red pointer position
Page selected(magenta border)
Type in linkedURL or audio filename# frames on
this page
Original filename
Slide through pages/framesSelect page or frame view
If there are frames for a loop, check to have them looping upon startup and set the speed
Save Lesson and Set Parameters
Essentially, accept the defaults.
Choose Save Lesson under file menu
Specifiy filename (name.zip)
Save
Cancel
Directory name
Directory contents
Parameter details
• Height – height of window (frame size + 120 lines for controls (e.g. 480+120=600)
• Width – width of window (frame size + 20 for borders (e.g. 640+20=660)
• Server hostname – name of machine running VISITview server you want to use as a promary server (e.g. www.ssec.wisc.edu)
• Alternate servers – name(s) of other machines running VISITview servers you use as backups (e.g. visit.cirs.colostate.edu) Entries here make alternate batch files.
Getting assistance with VISITview
• Home page on the web (in English)
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/visitview
• Contacts ?