Can English Grammar be enjoyable?

Ms. Amy Little, is known for her lively teaching methods in English Grammar class. An English Grammar instructor in University of Alabama in Huntsville (UHA),We interviewed her to find out how she keeps grammar interesting for students and what advice she gives to second language learners:

INTERVIEWER: All of your students say that you are a wonderful grammar teacher. Tell us why you love teaching grammar so much.
Ms. LITTLE: I like grammar because it is essential to every other skill. Also, I like seeing the "nuts and bolts" of a language.

INTERVIEWER: Many students say that grammar is their least favorite skill to learn. What are some things that you do to make learning grammar more enjoyable?
Ms. LITTLE: I realize that many students struggle with grammar, so my goal is to make it impossible for a student to fall asleep in my class. I do not simply follow along with the textbook; I use variety to make grammar interesting and appeal to all the different learning styles. We do activities, games, discussions – anything it takes to keep the students interested in learning.

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How to Add OEM Plug and Play Drivers to Windows XP

Article ID: 314479

This article was previously published under Q314479

For a Microsoft Windows 2000 version of this article, see 254078.

SUMMARY

This article describes the steps required to add original equipment manufacturer (OEM)-supplied drivers to Microsoft Windows installations. This article includes only those drivers that are typically installed during graphical user interface (GUI)-mode Setup or post-Setup by standard Plug and Play enumeration. This permits you to pre-load OEM Plug and Play drivers that you can use later, when the associated hardware is introduced in the system.

This article describes how to add OEM Plug and Play drivers in the following situations:

• Unattended Setup
• Sysprep Setup
• Remote Installation Service (RIS) installations
• Riprep images
• Existing Windows installations

Note This procedure does not apply to printer drivers.

For additional information about how to add OEM-supplied mass-storage devices during text-mode Setup, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

314859 Limited OEM Driver Support Is Available with F6 During Windows XP Setup

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How to use the Sysprep tool to automate successful deployment of Windows XP

Article ID: 302577

This article was previously published under Q302577

Important notice for users of Windows XP:
To continue receiving security updates for Windows, make sure that you're running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). The support for Windows XP with Service Pack 3 ends April 8, 2014. If you’re running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3) after support ends, to ensure that you will receive all important security updates for Windows, you need to upgrade to a later version, such as Windows 8.

INTRODUCTION

This step-by-step article describes how to use the System Preparation Tool (Sysprep) to automate the successful deployment of Microsoft Windows XP. Sysprep is a tool that is designed for system administrators, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and others who must automatically deploy the Windows XP operating system on multiple computers. After you perform the initial setup steps on a single computer, you can run the Sysprep tool to prepare the sample computer for cloning.

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Sysprep Windows XP SP3 and Copying Administrator Profile

 

When you sysprep a machine you are basically wanting to clone the settings from that machine to another one. You also want it to copy those changes to each profile, correct? Well, in order for the sysprep to successfully copy over the administrator profile to the default profile for each user you have to add an extra line to the sysprep.inf file.

1. The first step is to download the Sysprep App which is included in the CAB file for Windows XP Service Pack 3 Deployment Tools. (Download Sysprep Tool) or expand from drive:\Support\Tools\Deploy.cab
2. Next go to the PC you are going to be sysprepping and create a folder on the root of the C: drive called Sysprep. Extract the contents of the deploy.cab file you downloaded to the sysprep folder on the root of the C: drive.

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Sysprep for Windows 7 and Windows XP Professional

The following article was developed for using Sysprep with Windows XP Pro. Windows 7 has a very simple process built into the installed Windows 7 program. We follow this procedure when working with Windows 7. You may still want to review the procedures to use with certain models of HP/Compaq computers so that their images are compatible with other models of computers - check LBA assist vs Bit-Shift in the following descrition of Sysprep for Windows XP Pro.

Create a fresh install, license the computer, perform all updates, perform a system clean and defragmentation, check that all drivers are installed so that the computer would be ready to send to a client.

Right click on the start button - select Windows Explorer - C: drive - Windows - System32 - Sysprep Folder - Sysprep - Select System Out of Box Experience (OOBE) - Generalize - Shutdown Option - Shutdown and click Okay. The computer will run Sysprep to create an image of the hard drive. Be certain to copy the image to a server, another drive, a hard drive duplicator, etc. Do not start the computer and boot to the hard drive or the program will be reinstalled on the hard drive you just sysprepped. You can read the reminder of the article that refers to the system of copying drives but we no longer user an .ini file. The process is much, much simpler.

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