(—THIS SIDEBAR DOES NOT PRINT—) QUICK START (cont.) DESIGN GUIDE What’s Playing on KALX? How to change the template color theme This PowerPoint 2007 template produces a 36”x48” trifold You can easily change the color theme of your poster by going to the presentation poster. You can use it to create your research Gregory German, Systems Administrator DESIGN menu, click on COLORS, and choose the color theme of your poster and save valuable time placing titles, subtitles, text, choice. You can also create your own color theme. and graphics. Educaonal Technology Services – KALX Radio 90.7 FM We provide a series of online tutorials that will guide you through the poster design process and answer your poster production questions. To view our template tutorials, go online to PosterPresentations.com and click on HELP DESK. Introduc>on The Process …To the Twiersphere You can also manually change the color of your background by going to VIEW > SLIDE MASTER. After you finish working on the master be sure to KALX DJs log the songs they play into RadioActivity in near-real time, while they are in the studio. There is a computer in the booth that they use KALX was able to work with RadioActivity to create customized When you are ready to print your poster, go online to KALX 90.7 FM is the radio station of the go to VIEW > NORMAL to continue working on your poster. PosterPresentations.com University of California, Berkeley. It began to connect to KALX’s custom RadioActivity website (seen on the previous panel). These plays go into the RadioActivity.fm database. Every couple playlists that go to Twitter. Essentially, it’s a cron job that looks at of minutes, these are turned into XML feeds. the most recent plays and then reformats them and tweets them broadcasting back in 1962 as Radio KAL How to add Text using a cigar box as a transmitter. It was out using oauth credentials set up under the KALX Twitter account. Need assistance? Call us at 1.510.649.3001 The template comes with a number of pre- broadcast from Ehrman Hall to UC formatted placeholders for headers and text Berkeley's dormitories through wires blocks. You can add more blocks by copying and stretched across campus. Since then, they pasting the existing ones or by adding a text box QUICK START have grown into an award winning station from the HOME menu. that is one of the most highly regarded names in college radio. ETS designed the KALX website using Drupal. Text size Zoom in and out KALX broadcasts freeform radio 24 hours a day to a large portion of The Drupal site has scripts that pull the RSS Adjust the size of your text based on how much content you have to As you work on your poster zoom in and out to the level the San Francisco Bay Area. You can catch all stripes of feeds from RadioActivity and saves and displays that is more comfortable to you. present. The default template text offers a good starting point. Follow underground music accented with news, sports and alternative them in a few different formats. The first the conference requirements. Go to VIEW > ZOOM. informational programming. shows the several most recent plays in a condensed format. The second, seen to the How to add Tables Title, Authors, and Affiliations left, shows all of the songs played on-air for a To add a table from scratch go to the INSERT menu and Start designing your poster by adding the title, the names of the authors, The Opportunity particular calendar day. It is also possible to click on TABLE. A drop-down box will help you select rows and the affiliated institutions. You can type or paste text into the view playlists from previous days on this page. and columns. provided boxes. The template will automatically adjust the size of your Several years ago, KALX began working with RadioActivity, a In addition, you can view current and historical You can also copy and a paste a table from Word or another PowerPoint text to fit the title box. You can manually override this feature and company that provides logging, playlisting and reporting software playlists from particular station DJs. document. A pasted table may need to be re-formatted by RIGHT-CLICK > change the size of your text. for radio stations. The original impetus was to replace the old FORMAT SHAPE, TEXT BOX, Margins. process of DJs logging song plays on paper and generating top music The website also displays the Weekly Top 35 TIP: The font size of your title should be bigger than your name(s) and charts by hand counting. This allowed KALX to much more easily Charts and Monthly Top 100 Charts. The play institution name(s). submit their charts to the College Music Journal to be officially Graphs / Charts count data is pulled from RadioActivity and counted for the benefit of the artists and record labels involved. In You can simply copy and paste charts and graphs from Excel or Word. imported into FileMaker Pro for tabulation. I addition, the software also allowed the station to submit Some reformatting may be required depending on how the original created scripts to then format that data as CSV information to several regulatory agencies as required for a document has been created. files to be uploaded to the Drupal site. licensed radio station. For example, stations are required to submit Reports of Use to SoundExchange, a performance rights How to change the column configuration Adding Logos / Seals organization that collects and distributes digital performance RIGHT-CLICK on the poster background and select LAYOUT to see the Most often, logos are added on each side of the title. You can insert a royalties. These include detailed information of what sound column options available for this template. The poster columns can also logo by dragging and dropping it from your desktop, copy and paste or by recordings were performed. be customized on the Master. VIEW > MASTER. going to INSERT > PICTURES. Logos taken from web sites are likely to be Another developer with KALX connections worked with KALX to low quality when printed. Zoom it at 100% to see what the logo will look create the Android KALX 90.7 FM app. It gets it’s playlist like on the final poster and make any necessary adjustments. Soon after adopting RadioActivity, KALX underwent a redesign of information by linking to the above Twitter feed. How to remove the info bars their website. This presented an opportunity. Could we leverage Extending to Mobile Devices If you are working in PowerPoint for Windows and have finished your TIP: See if your school’s logo is available on our free poster templates the information that DJs were submitting to RadioActivity in the poster, save as PDF and the bars will not be included. You can also delete page. new site? Here we will discuss how KALX, in conjunction with ETS We soon determined that we wanted to extend the availability of this information further beyond the website. People often listen to the radio on them by going to VIEW > MASTER. On the Mac adjust the Page-Setup to and RadioActivity, did exactly that. As an example, we’ll take a the go, and should be able to get their information where it suits them. So with the playlists available in RSS format through their website, KALX match the Page-Setup in PowerPoint before you create a PDF. You can Photographs / Graphics look at the journey a playlist undergoes, from the DJ booth to the was able leverage this data into a mobile app on the iPhone. also delete them from the Slide Master. You can add images by dragging and dropping from your desktop, copy KALX website and other digital destinations. and paste, or by going to INSERT > PICTURES. Resize images Save your work proportionally by holding down the SHIFT key and dragging one of the Save your template as a PowerPoint document. For printing, save as corner handles. For a professional-looking poster, do not distort your PowerPoint of “Print-quality” PDF. images by enlarging them disproportionally. We came across an outside developer who Print your poster happened to be married to an ex-KALX staffer When you are ready to have your poster printed go online to who had moved from the Bay Area. As a gift to PosterPresentations.com and click on the “Order Your Poster” button. Choose the poster type the best suits your needs and submit your order. If his wife, he wanted to design a KALX iPhone you submit a PowerPoint document you will be receiving a PDF proof for app so that she could listen to the station your approval prior to printing. If your order is placed and paid for before ORIGINAL DISTORTED wherever she was. We worked with the Corner handles noon, Pacific, Monday through Friday, your order will ship out that same developer to create the official KALX 90.7 FM day. Next day, Second day, Third day, and Free Ground services are Image Quality Check app. In addition to playing music from the offered. Go to PosterPresentations.com for more information. station live, the app also accesses the playlist Zoom in and look at your images at 100% magnification. If they look good information by way of the feed from the KALX they will print well. website. There is also a a KALX 90.7 FM app for Android This concludes our story of the journey of a KALX playlist. Now, devices.