Setting up Your MSN Messenger for Distance Learning.

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Setting up Your MSN Messenger for Distance
Learning.

• (Please note This tutorial is made using
  Microsoft Windows Vista using Internet Explorer
  7. If you are using a different operating
  system, your
• view will look slightly different.)

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Table of Contents

• Introduction.
• Downloading and Installing MSN Messenger.
• Creating an Account.
• Adding ESMP to Your Contact List.
• Configuring Your MIC and Webcam.
• Joining a Class Remotely.
• Notes and Errata.

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Introduction

• MSN Messenger is a program produced by Microsoft
  to facilitate the sharing of information,
  pictures, videos, and other media.
• In ESPM, MSN Messenger can be used to allow
  distance education students to remotely connect
  and participate in class in real time.
• To use this software to its fullest you will
  also need a MIC and a webcam.

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Downloading and Installing MSN Messenger
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Downloading and Installing MSN Messenger

• To download MSN Messenger, click the link below.
• http//get.live.com/messenger/overview
• This should open a web page that looks like

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Downloading and Installing MSN Messenger

• Click on the link illustrated in
  the picture.

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Downloading and Installing MSN Messenger

• This should take you to a page that looks like

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Downloading and Installing MSN Messenger

• You will notice this page has 4 check boxes that
  look like this
• You will want to click each of these boxes till
  they look like
• Once you have completed that, click the
  button at the bottom of the page.

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Downloading and Installing MSN MessengerOne of
two things should happen at this point.

• 1) A cautionary message bar will appear at the
  top of your browser that will look similar to.
• Click on the bar and you will see a dropdown
  menu. Click on the Run, Allow, or Install
  link as shown.
• The box in scenario 2 should now load.

• 2) A dialog box will open. Prompting you to save
  or run the file.
• Just select and the download
  will start.

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Downloading and Installing MSN Messenger

• MSN Messenger will now download to your system.
  (This may take some time depending on your
  connection).
• Once it has completed a set of boxes will open
  prompting you to install the program. Select run
  (Circled in red) and the process will continue.

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Downloading and Installing MSN Messenger

• Accept the terms of use agreement.
• Once the window to the right appears on your
  desktop the installation will be commencing.
• You do not need to click anything for the process
  to complete.
• It may take some time to complete the
  installation.

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Creating an MSN Account.
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Creating an MSN Account.

• If you do not have a hotmail account already
  please go to www.hotmail.com
• Click the button
• On the next page you will see
• two options one for live hotmail
• and one for live services. Just
• click the basic account button
• as shown below.

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Creating an MSN Account

• Choose an email you may have to use a
  combination of numbers and letters to find an
  unclaimed account name- and complete the rest of
  the form
• Behind the email name is a drop down menu
• Select _at_hotmail.com
• as shown
• Once the form is complete click
• the button at the bottom.

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Creating and MSN account?

• Once you have an account created open Windows
  Live Messenger
• Type your email and password into the
• respective fields
• Click the and
• check boxes
• You are now ready to !

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Adding ESPM to Your MSN Contact List.
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Adding ESPM to Your MSN Contact List.

• Once MSN is open and you are logged in, you
  should see a window open similar to the figure on
  the right.
• Click the button shown highlighted in the red
  circle.

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Adding ESPM to Your MSN Contact List.

• A box like the one to the right will open.
• Select the text field indicated by the red circle
  and type.
• mspm_uaa1_at_hotmail.com
• Click which should now be
  illuminated.

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Adding ESPM to Your MSN Contact List.

• Repeat this process 4 times using the following
  addresses
• 1) mspm_uaa2_at_hotmail.com
• 2) mspm_uaa3_at_hotmail.com
• 3) mspm_uaa4_at_hotmail.com
• 4) mspm_uaa5_at_hotmail.com

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Buying, Installing and Configuring your webcam
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Webcam Purchasing
You can buy a webcam from Best Buy, COMPUSA,
etc. Please purchase a webcam which has
microphone in it. Based on our ESPM experience,
webcam with microphone is the best for class. If
you want, you can use a headset and webcam also.
If you have a hard time to select a webcam, we
recommend Logitech webcam. (http//www.logitech.c
om/index.cfm/US/EN)
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Webcam Installation
1. After finishing webcam setup on your laptop,
Please setup up your MSN Messengers webcam
setting. 2. Click Tools and select Audio and
Video setup 3. Then click next and select
Play Sound
If you hear a sound,
your
speaker setting is OK.
But theres no sound,

Please, select proper
device what you will use.
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Webcam Installation(cont.)

• 4. After finishing speaker setup,
• Please make any sound (Test 1,2 3..)
• and make sure the volume bar is going
• up and down.
• If it is moving, your microphone setup is OK.
• But, it doesnt move, please select proper
• device that you will use.
• PLEASE NOTE Unless you are using
• a headset microphone, please set the
• Microphone Volume very low as shown in
• the picture.

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Webcam Installation(cont.)
4. After finishing Mic. setup, Please make
sure you can see a image on the box.
If you can a image, its OK. But, if you
cant, please select proper device what you
will use.
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Joining the MSPM Classroom Remotely
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Starting and Maintaining a Webcam Conversation
Via MSN

• Double click any of the online Mspm accounts. It
  should bring up a window that looks similar to
  this.
• Click on the Start or Stop a Video Call button

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Starting and Maintaining a Webcam Conversation
Via MSN

• The window will enlarge showing 2 video boxes.
  These boxes may take a while for anything to
  appear in, but they are preparing your webcam
  footage.

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Starting and Maintaining a Webcam Conversation
Via MSN

• Pay particular attention to the Volume receiving
  and the
• Volume transmitting bars
• Properly adjusted sound levels should be similar
  to those depicted.

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Starting and Maintaining a Webcam Conversation
Via MSN

• Please insure that your Line out, or Volume
  Transmitting is VERY low, especially if you are
  not using a headset. If this is too high, it
  will create a feedback circuit. Do not worry if
  this seems too low, we will adjust the volume out
  on our end to insure you are heard.
• Adjust your volume level slowly till you have
  achieved a comfortable listening level. This
  level should be below the level of your spoken
  voice for optimal clarity.

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Notes and other Errata
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Starting and Maintaining a Webcam Conversation
Via MSN

• Open MIC System

• Closed MIC System

• When using an open MIC system (such as a
  microphone on a desk with speakers) you can
  produce feedback. Feedback is when a sound loops
  through a system indefinitely creating a squeal.
  The only way to stop feedback, is to kill the
  loop by not allowing the MIC to pick up speaker
  output.

• A headset closes the loop that can be created by
  an open system. While wearing a headset may seem
  tedious at times, it is often preferable to
  blasting a classroom of professionals with a
  high-pitched squeal of
• feedback.