Beyond the text… multimedia objects in PPT Eva M. Fernández October 27, 2003

Building PPT Text Slides  entering and formatting text  default slide layouts  placeholders  printing slides  saving your work  displaying your work ~ running a slide show formatting toolbar drawing toolbar

PPT: Beyond the text  Easy integration of…  sounds  images  movies  etc.  Viable alternative to…  tape recorders  slide projectors  VCRs  etc. some examples…

S NPVP simple: S  NP VP S SS CONJ S S S coordinate: S  S CONJ S subordinate: S  S S S S S CONJ S Simple & Complex

An architecture for bilingual cognition JOINT MEMORY STORE events lived in Lx or Ly material learned in Lx or Ly LEXICON XLEXICON Y GRAMMAR XGRAMMAR Y phonology X syntax X semantics X pragmatics Xpragmatics Y semantics Y syntax Y phonology Y

BORROWING: BORROWING: use of a word or phrase from Lx within Ly utterance Ya no están, están en special Ahí para comprarlo para este weekend; pa este weekend  mot juste, gap in lexicon, etc.  phonological & morphological integration into host language  notice, both borrowed words are from English

ON-LINE READING TIMES: MONOLINGUALS & BILINGUALS

The United States  A place with numerous linguistic minorities  Take Queens County, for example  44% of the population speaks a LOTE at home (1990 US Census)  Of this 44%, MOST are BILINGUALS  Figures overlook people who speak LOTEs, but don’t use them at home

Motivation  student performances

Figure 1. Correspondences between bilingual and monolingual behavior in sentence processing, categorized as language-independent and language- dependent. Sx indicates set of strategies associated with Lx.

Linear Correlation Coefficient (r)

QC ONLINE / BLACKBOARD  the class website is accessible only through QC ONLINE (Blackboard 5)  to access it, you must: 1. activate your account: 2. login to QC Online and edit personal information:

Menu  manipulating PPT objects  drawing objects  formatting and positioning objects  embedding and formatting objects  tables, organization charts, equations, graphs

The Drawing Toolbar  insert objects  autoshapes  word art  clip art  format objects  fill, line, text color  line and arrow style  shadows, 3-d effects  organize objects  align  group  order  rotate

The “Insert” Function  “objects”  textboxes and “autoshapes”  tables, graphs, organization charts, equations, …  pictures  movies, sounds  hyperlinks  to websites  to run a program

Exercise 1: Generating an Organization Chart  build your own, by hand, using autoshapes  a chart illustrating the morphological components in a Spanish regular –ar verb?  a “family tree” for the characters in Cien Años de Soledad?  a sitemap for your website?  your favorite restaurants, rank-ordered by type and cost?

Exercise 2: More Complex Displays  an equation  using the equation editor  an organization chart  using the organization chart utility  a phrase structure tree of the sentence  The spy saw the man with the binoculars.

Exercise 3: Plotting Data  Use this information… or invent your own: Preliminary Data: Michigan Run (April 2001) Heavy Matrix Light Matrix Relative Clause Length 1 PWd PWds PWds4951

Exercise 4: Creating Navigation Buttons  Prepare some slides to navigate around…  your favorite website  your recently-built PPT show  your desktop  … SIL SPEECH ANALYZER Microsoft PaintA Paper I Just Wrote

Thanks for coming! 