Category: TTT
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TTT: Reading Pane in Outlook 2003
Welcome to the 2008-09 TTT (Tuesday’s Technology Tip)! This tip is designed to give a quick “how-to” to hopefully make your computing life easier. Nancy Wilhelm, our district trainer, has created many helpful documents about using Office and other programs. Here is her tip on the reading pane in Outlook 2003: Reading Pane The Reading…
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RSS, anyone?
There are lots of great new tools on the Internet today: blogs, wikis, podcasts, XML, RSS, social networks, social bookmarks, and more. Making sense of them can be a daunting task. The one key new technology that can help to put all the rest into perspective is RSS. You don’t have to know anything technical…
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Terms Tip
Tuesday’s Technology Tip… (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) Computer technology is full of terms and acronyms that you may not be familiar with. One website that serves as a dictionary of technology-related terms is Netlingo (www.netlingo.com). The site keeps up with chat room terms and acronyms also – so…
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File Tip
Tuesday’s Technology Tip… (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) With everyone cleaning out their server folders, questions have come up again about file extensions. All computer files use a 3-letter suffix to help the computer figure out what type of file it is. When saving, the file extension should be…
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Naming Tip
Tuesday’s Technology Tip (Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) On Dells, there are certain characters that should not be used in folder or file names. If you have a file that seems not to work, check to see if it contains one of these characters: \ / : * ?…
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Search Tip
Tuesday’s Technology Tip (Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) Google is by far the most popular search engine, but certainly not the only one. Each search engine has its own “formula” for finding results. Google provide results based on how many sites link to the result sites. Teoma (www.teoma.com) provides…
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Backup Tip
Tuesday’s Technology Tip (Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) Backing up files for permanent storage is best done with CDs. All new Dells purchased this year, along with all eMacs in the lab (plus some other Macs in the building) have CD burners. On Dells, use Roxio Easy CD Creator…
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Word Processor tip
Tuesday’s Technology Tip (Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) There are many different word processors available for computers. The most common one is Microsoft Word, which is on all District computers. AppleWorks is another program that includes a word processor (as well as a spreadsheet, database and more). AppleWorks is…
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WITS tip
Tuesday’s Technology Tip (Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) There is a new feature for teachers in WITS called Terms/Flashcards, found in the teacher notes area. You can put vocabulary terms in for your students to practice in a flashcard format. You can also share your vocabulary words so other…
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Browser Tip
Tuesday’s Technology Tip (Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) The web browser Firefox is installed on all building computers. Since the WITS programmers use Firefox when they work, you may find some things in WITS behave better. To find Firefox on the Dells, open the HeimM Staff Shortcuts folder on…