Category: TTT

Tuesday’s Technology Tip (Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) The Help tab is one place where you can find documentation of how to do various things in WITS. It is the last blue tab at the top of the WITS window. Click on it, then click on a topic on…

Tuesday’s Technology Tip (Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) A Dell left unattended and logged in is a security risk – anyone who sits at the computer has access to a lot of confidential information. If you are going to be away from your computer for a few minutes and…

Tuesday’s Technology Tip (Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) On Dells, your printers “travel” with you in your profile, regardless of which Dell you login to. For example, if you normally print to the A-wing, but login in and print in the D-wing, your printing will still come out in…

Tuesday’s Technology Tip (Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) On a Dell, My Documents on the desktop is not your real server folder on the network. When you open My Documents, you see all the documents in your server folder, but they are really only shortcuts. Your “true” server folder…

Tuesday’s Technology Tip… (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) On the WITS homepage there is a link in the left navigation column for the Staff Directory. This is the electronic version of the printed book we receive each year. The two big advantages of the online version are that you…

Tuesday’s Technology Tip… (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) The following was sent to me recently – while I cannot verify if these are actually error messages as stated, there are some pretty good ones. Enjoy! Here are 14 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan, where…

Tuesday’s Technology Tip… (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) Why walk all the way to the library to search the catalog? We have made a connection to the library database that allows you to access the catalog from any computer in the building. Here’s how to find it: In WITS,…

Tuesday’s Technology Tip… (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) If you are in the market for a new computer at home, you have access to educator’s prices for being affiliated with a school. For Dell computers, the district has a special code (and website) with the employee purchase program. See…

Tuesday’s Technology Tip… (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) On the homepage of WITS in the left column, you should see a blue heading titled Student Intranet. Underneath are links to For Parents and Student Showcase. To see current (or past) PTSA newsletters, other information for parents, or recent work…

Tuesday’s Technology Tip.. (little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier) Google has added a new service to its map feature which has satellite images of the mapped location. Type in an address, click on the satellite link, and you get a bird’s eye view, with decent zoom and resolution. Go to…