Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Troubleshoot 101

Profile Faculty:

We will have a Technology Questions & Troubleshoot 101 session during our Summer Technology Institute.

Please enter below the topics you would like to see addressed, using the comments.

The following topics are already scheduled during the other sessions:

- Notebook use 101
- 1:1 student/computer best practises
- Engaging Student Writing with 1:1 student/computer
- Advanced Notebook for Smartboard
- Video editing, formatting, and uploading
- Web 2.0 tools: podcasting, Google Apps,social networks for education, Skype

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Downloading Open Office for Windows and Macintosh

You can download the latest version of Open Office (3.2) for Windows here
You can download the latest version of Open Office (3.2) for Macintosh here
Remember to register to get announcements about updates.
It is also definitely worthwhile checking out the downloadable extensions page.
Jude

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

File exchange in a diverse digital environment

- I have created a text document or a presentation with Open Office, and I need to work on it with Microsoft Office. OMG!How do I do that????

- I have this cool Powerpoint created with the latest version of Microsoft Office, can I open it with Open Office without corrupting it beyond recognition?????

- I Just opened my file created at home with a school computer, and there are all these funky signs which are not supposed to be there? What can I do about it?

See this file exchange chart. Download the whole presentation here.
Jude

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Math Teachers: Try the SMART Math notebook software

Try for 30 days these SMART presentation and teaching tools for math on your Smartboard and let me know if you'd like to keep them.

I suggest starting by watching the 4 minutes demo video (click on Product Demo, top right of the page)

Then explore the main page for this product

You can download the 30-day trial version here

Please send me your feedback within the next four weeks
Jude