Creating Desktop Shortcuts

Using the Projector Cables – Avoid Damage

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Know About Videos Online – Appropriate Use

Inspiration Software – 50 Ways to Use It

In order to place a shortcut on your desktop to a favorite program, folder, file, or network location, simply right-click on it, and choose “Send To…  …Desktop (create shortcut)”

Please know that your “desktop” is stored only on your local computer hard drive. It is not backed up on the server in any way. This is why when you log onto any different computer, you will not see the items that are on the desktop of your own computer. It is fine to save shortcuts and temporary items onto your desktop, but remember to put any important files or folders into your “My Documents.”
 

We are happy that so many people are using the projectors! However, please take care when plugging into the projector cables that no pins get bent. Please make sure your students do this properly: When plugging in the cable make sure that it is going straight onto the connector, and that if  you encounter resistance you do not force it. Back off, re-align, and try again, going straight in. The longer cables cost $100. Thanks.

The symptom of bent pins is either a green or blue image, or no image at all.

There is a brief questionnaire in order to qualify for a free subscription to Technology & Learning. This is a great magazine highlighting good uses of technology for the classroom. I asked the publishers, and they told me the classroom teachers do qualify even though the survey asks about whether you are the purchaser of technology for your school. Click here for the questionnaire.

There are several new online video sites that catalog video clips, and allow individuals to view, share, and upload video clips in the same way that images and text have been shared in the past. These video sites will undoubtedly attract children, as many of the videos are funny and interesting. Unfortunately, like images and text there is also a large variety of highly inappropriate material. Two of the best-known sites in this arena are YouTube and Google Video. We are blocking student access to these sites with our web filter. I wanted you to be aware of these sites, as it is up to all of us to guide our students to use the Internet appropriately.

Inspiration software is useful for organizing and demonstrating thinking, and converts from diagram to outline. Here are 50 Ways to Use It!

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