Chanatown

I was able to sneak in a 15 minute lunch, but other than that, I was again on the move throughout the building working in a lot of different classrooms. More setup on the iPad carts working with a few teachers, and then we successfully used the Chromebooks with three classes today. Coupled with Hapara's Teacher Dashboard, we've got a powerful solution for Google Apps and one that makes it very efficient for teachers to stay organized with their students' documents. Here are some of today's SBS moments. (I'm changing the acronym to Solved By Searching - . I just couldn't live with WILTs!) Burning a Data Disc on Mac/PC I need to make a quick copy of a DVD for backup purposes.  First, I looked up a free solution for PCs ( CD Burner XP - works for Windows 7 as well), but then realized that I needed to do it on the Mac.  Apparently, OS X does this through Disk Utility, so it was a quick and easy procedure . Screen Capturing on a Google Chromebook Lastly, I wan...

I'm finally able to take a breath after a day's worth of running around helping teachers with everything from doc cam setups to clicker troubleshooting.  It's really exciting to see so many of our faculty and staff eager and excited about their technology and going full steam from day one. Tomorrow I'll begin meeting with our iPad teachers as well as supporting day one for our first full Chromebook cart.  More on all of that to come.  A quick WILT (what I learned today) for the new school year: Setting Up Line Spacing in MS Word 2010 This was simple, but Microsoft is always changing their products. Office is so widely used throughout the building, yet we have users on 2003, 2007, and now 2010.  For the newest version, I had trouble finding the double spacing options, but learned that it was under Home, Paragraph.   More info here . For more thoughts on Teaching and Learning Technology,  please consider subscribing to the RSS feed or through email . ...

It's been a record two months since the last post, but back to school specials are upon us and that means there's plenty to talk about as I enter year four as a Technology Integration Specialist. Over the past three years, I've been fortunate to work with hundreds of teachers and thousands of students. There is not a day where I am not learning something from either another teacher, a student, or through my own searches. In an attempt to get more posts (still focusing on quality), I'll be writing some shorter articles that feature something I learned. Based on the guiding principle that one question is likely shared by others, I'll try to document more of the questions that I get and the answers that I share with individuals. I'll categorize these as "What I Learned Today" or WILT (not the best acronym by any means), so as to search and find the label with ease.  Read on for the first WILT.