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Syllabus

  • Website creation in HTML
  • OpenOffice.org: Writer, Impress, Drawing, Calc
  • Speech synthesis with MBROLA

Requirements

  • Website with HTML elements presented in class
  • OpenOffice document: OO Writer and OO Impress with figures created in OO Drawing and charts and tables created in OO Calc
  • Sound file with synthetic speech
  • Attendance in class (2 absences allowed)
  • Registration at USOS

Classes

  1. 2010-02-19: Website creation
  2. 2010-02-26: Website creation, cont.
  3. 2010-03-05: Website creation - frorms and frames
  4. 2010-03-12: Website creation - forms and frames, cont.
  5. 2010-03-19: Website creation - students' individual work
  6. 2010-03-19: Website creation
    • a note on the Cascading Style Sheets (CCS)
    • students' individual work on their websites
  7. 2010-04-09: Introducing OpenOffice.org and text formatting

    Homework - Read:

    1. Gibbon, D. 2004. "What a Linguist Needs to Know about Word Processing"
    2. Gibbon, D. 2007. "Stylesheet for Term Papers and Theses": PDF, OTT
  8. 2010-04-16: OpenOffice.org Writer: text formatting, cont.
  9. 2010-04-23: Korean Day!
    1. Presentation of the Ubuntu operating system.
    2. Computer hygienie.
    3. OpenOffice.org Draw
  10. 2010-04-3o: Speech perception tests of the speech synthesis quality
  11. 2010-05-07: OpenOffice.org Writer: text formatting, cont.
  12. 2010-05-14: OpenOffice.org Writer: text formatting - final project
    • professionally formatted styles
    • automatically numberred headings
    • lists
    • tables
    • figures
    • cross-references to tables and figures in the text
    • title page
    • Table of Contents, Index of Figures, Index of Tables
    • automatically numberred pages
    • footnote
    • bibliography
  13. 2010-05-21: OpenOffice.org Calc: Basics
    • Using worksheets
    • Find & Replace functions
    • Sorting data
    • Filtering data
    • Creating charts
    • Creating calculations
    • "IF" function
    • Relative vs. absolute addresses
  14. 2010-05-27: OpenOffice.org Impress
  15. 2010-06-04: Praat: doing phonetics by computer