Welcome to the second episode of the Teacher's Corner Screencast.

Teacher's Corner is a website created by a teacher (myself) for other teachers, for students and for everyone willing to learn. It provides you with interesting, captivating and sometimes entertaining lessons, tutorials and fully fledged courses on software, the internet and technology in general. I addition to that, another section of this website will offer short lessons snippets on learning English in the future.

In this episode I introduce you to LEO, an online dictionary that translates between German and English, German and French, and German and Spanish. You'll learn everything you need to know on how to handle LEO's web interface. Also, I'll cover several ways of integrating LEO with your favorite browser and with LaunchBar, a multi purpose utility for the Macintosh.

Known issues:

There are some minor flaws in this show. None of them is a showstopper, so I chose to publish the show anyway:
– Minor language flaws: If you find them: Please ignore them. If not: Never mind.
– Minor artifacts while recording. I am not quite sure why they are there, since they don't show up in the source clips I recorded with SnapZ Pro. Maybe Final Cut Pro has some compatibility issues with those source clips' format. I definitely have to look at this for the next show.
– Although the sound quality has been improved considerably compared to previous show, it is not perfect yet. The volume changes slightly from time to time.

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If you'd like to try LEO yourself, go to http://dict.leo.org
For information on LaunchBar, go to Objective Development.
Maybe you also consider watching a cool screencast on LaunchBar. If so, go to Screencasts Online.
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I enhanced the website a little. I updated the Visual Helpdesk section and rearranged the menu bar. There are still many improvements to be done.

Welcome to the very first episode of the Teacher's Corner Screencast.

Teacher's Corner is a website created by a teacher (myself) for other teachers, for students and for everyone willing to learn. It provides you with interesting, captivating and sometimes entertaining lessons, tutorials and fully fledged courses on software, the internet and technology in general. I addition to that, another section of this website will offer short lessons snippets on learning English in the future.

In this episode I introduce you to Journler, a journaling application. Journler can store, organize and find almost any kind of information in an extremely intuitive and yet very powerful way. This is what makes it so useful for teachers and learners alike. You will learn how to:
– input and import information and files
– organize data by creating folders and smart folders
– work with multimedia elements
– find information stored in Journler

Known issues:
There have been some technical problems throughout the production of the show:
– On some parts of the movie, the mouse pointer looks weird. This is due to my recording application, SnapZ Pro from Ambrosia Software. The app wasn't 100% compatible with my Intel Mac at the time of the recording.
– In one section of the movie I demonstrate the recording features of Journler. However, when playing back the recordings there is no sound. This is, again, due to SnapZ Pro. Both issues have been resolved by Ambrosia Software by now and won't be an issue in future recordings.
– On some sections of the movie the sound quality isn't perfect. Again, this problem has been resolved by now and won't be an issue in future episode.

Please join the forum and tell me what you think of this show.

Download the show here

If you'd like to try Journler yourself, go to http://journler.phildow.net

If you like this show and would like to stay in touch, you may subscribe to the RSS-feed provided in the sidebar on the left.