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The McGraw-Hill Visual Resource Library (VRL) CD-ROM is an electronic library of educational presentation resources. The VRL CD-ROM is comprised of the Kudo Catalog Reader, which allows the user to view, sort, search, use, and print catalog images. The VRL features preset PowerPoint presentations, which allows the user to play chapter-specific slideshows.
Customize Your Lecture Presentations
Select from our chapter specific PowerPoint driven presentation to meet your lecture needs. Or, create your own presentations, importing images into your lecture notes. The Visual Resource Library provides you with flexible options for a dynamic lecture.
The Small Gallery View allows all of the images to be quickly displayed within the catalog window by reducing the size of each image. Users can get to this type of view by using the View pull-down menu, or by clicking on the Small Gallery button in the upper-left corner of the screen. This view allows you to quickly view thumbnail images.
The Gallery View features a grid style layout and shows several thumbnails at once, including their file name and file type. Users can reach this type of view by using the View pull-down menu or by clicking on the Gallery View button in the upper-left corner of the screen (middle button)
The List View displays each thumbnail with its corresponding Notes field. The Notes field contains textual information about each image, such as figure legend and number. Users can get to this type of view by using the View pull-down menu or by clicking on the List View button in the upper-left corner of the screen (third from the left).
By double-clicking on the thumbnail from any view (Small, List, or Gallery views), the user can view the image at full screen. This feature allows the user to make a closer assessment of the image before importing it into a presentation tool.
Images can be placed into supported applications by selecting Place from the Image pull-down menu. PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and other major applications accept images using Place from the Visual Resource Library. To place an image file using Place:
For Macintosh:
The Visual Resource Library also allows you to edit the provided images and save them on your hard drive by using Photoshop or other Paintbrush programs. No changes can be saved to the CD-ROM.
NOTE: For Macintosh and Windows PowerPoint users, use the Copy and Paste method.
There are two ways to remove labels from an image. The first method listed is the only method in which the changes can be saved. Both methods need to be done after the image has been imported into PowerPoint (or by choosing the image the image you want to work on from the chapter-by-chapter pre-arranged PowerPoint presentations available on the VRL).
To remove labels for printing purposes:
An alternate method for removing labels:
Note: this is not the best method for removing labels, as you cannot save any changes, but, it offers an alternative.
Remember, changes made by using this method cannot be saved, but it gives you a good idea of another way in which PowerPoint can be used to personalize your presentations to your needs.
Another method for importing images includes the Copy and Paste method.
For Macintosh:
For Windows:
NOTE: you must be in the full-size image mode for the Copy command to be active.
Many VRL CD-ROMs contain QuickTime animation movies. These animations can be used with the textbook images for enhanced lecture presentations. Here's how you can incorporate these animations into your PowerPoint presentations:
Copy and Paste Method:
Use the Find button to search for images with specific characteristics, or choose Find from the Image menu to start the search process. The catalog window changes to reflect the search results, displaying only those thumbnails that match the search criteria. This does not alter the original catalog in any way. The non-matching thumbnails are simply hidden from view. To restore the original view, use the Find button to search for Everything or choose Find All from the Image menu.
Use the first pull-down menu to tell the Visual Resource Library the characteristic it should search. If you choose Everything, you cannot choose other characteristics for the search.
NOTE: searching by Notes allows the user to perform the most advanced search.
Continuing the Search
Use the second pull-down menu to define how the Visual Resource Library will search the catalog. The search options change by the selection in the first pull-down menu.
Use the text box on the right to enter words to search for.
The Sort menu allows the user to sort by the same criteria used in the Find feature; however, the Sort and Find features affect the catalog differently. With Find, the Visual Resource Library narrows the range of thumbnails displayed by finding the one (or more) needed. Sorting leaves the whole catalog visible, letting you browse through organized images at your leisure and reorganize them as needed. Sorting and Finding do not permanently affect the Visual Resource Library.
To sort the catalog, select a sorting method from the Sort menu.
The Visual Resource Library image files have been formatted as follows:
The vast majority of commerical drawing or imaging programs are capable of opening and modifying PICT file format images. These include, but are not limited to:
Macintosh:
Windows:
Windows HINT: Images can also be edited by using MicroSoft Paint. When you copy a image from within Kudo (see cut and paste within Placing Image Options), you have temporarily placed a copy of the image in the system memory. Open MicroSoft Paint and select Edit and Paste. The image you had previously copied will now be placed into Paint, allowing you to edit the image labels and resave the resulting image file.
The Visual Resource Library CD-ROM, in addition to containing imagery from the textbook, contains chapter-specific PowerPoint presentations. These presentations can be played directly from the CD-ROM and do not require any additional software on the user's end.
To run the PowerPoint Slideshows:
Macintosh:
Windows:
Our goal in licensing the use of these images and any accompanying software to you is to allow you to enhance your classroom presentations and stimulate the use of computers in education. Given your interest in these images, McGraw-Hill would like to present a few guidelines to help answer some common questions related to the use of these images.
Classroom presentation and individual viewing
These resources have been licensed to you for your use in classroom
presentations, and for your general use to view these structures in a
single user environment. These images are not to be used to create products
that are competitive with any products of McGraw-Hill, or for you to
derive profit from their use, sale, or relicensing.
Creating educational courseware
Should you decide you wish to develop a product that makes use of these
images, McGraw-Hill must be notified, and separate written permission
must be obtained from McGraw-Hill. We encourage you to consider the
creation of other educational products, but in no way does your licensing
of this CD-ROM library constitute a transfer of the copyright of the images
for your use beyond classroom presentations.
Internet and Intranet usage
As for use of these images on the Internet, you do not have the right to
place any of the content of this library on the Internet for public or
private access. Should you desire to use these images on either an Internet
or Intranet site, you must contact McGraw-Hill to obtain such rights
in writing.
Network usage
If you wish to place this library, or any element of this library, on a
network for the purposes of general access, you must contact McGraw-Hill
to obtain written permission to do so.
Who to call for questions or permission
If you have further questions, or you wish to seek written permission to
use these images, please contact your local McGraw-Hill Sales Representative
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