Welcome Back Norskies!

This will be an exciting year in, among other places, the area of instructional technology!  Now is a good time to review the basics, brush up on a few skills, and learn something new. Today, you will have some time to get familiar with the new house (network) we’ve moved into, find and unpack your [...]

Tuesday Tech Tip–J Drive & Picasa

Good morning, Today’s tip compliments two of Kim’s recent posts… upcoming network changes and the GoogleApps transition. Spring cleaning the J: drive Using Picasa web albums with your newly transitioned GoogleApps accounts. With the upcoming network migration, the J: drive will no longer be used for grades 5-12.  If you’ve got lots of documents or [...]

Tuesday Technology Tip: Email Wrangling

Today’s tip is about taming the inbox.  For most of us, it’s easy to find ourselves with a bottomless pit of mail in the inbox.  If that feels stressful, don’t worry.  You can get rid of email from years ago. (It’s all archived)  And if you feel better after cleaning house, you can do so [...]

Tuesday Tech Tip: Picasa Web Albums

Today’s tip will help you do a little spring cleaning. If you have lots and lots of files in your H: drive, you may be getting close to your size limit.  If you get close, Spacemon (in the lower right-hand corner of your screen) will go from green to red and start beeping at you. [...]

Welcome new teachers!

Today we’ll spend some time looking over some of the technology tools available to you here at DASD.  In addition to your handout and what’s shared on GoogleApps, here are a few more resources and helpful tips. Introductory Prezi Try These Skills… Skyward Educator Access outline Edutopia Back-to-School Guide

Tuesday Technology Tips

Today’s tips are focused on organization, shopping, and photos . . . Evernote: www.evernote.com Their symbol is an elephant and for good reason. With a free account, you can begin to capture items using the web, your smartphone, your computer, and other devices like an iPod Touch or a Blackberry. Evernote holds them all on the web [...]

Purchasing Cameras?

If you might be purchasing a camera this school year, we’ve created a “standard”–a list of cameras that work well for our systems. You’ll find cameras for a wide variety of situations, including low-cost Flip video cameras and high zoom digital still cameras. Here’s the entire list of cameras. This year our list includes the [...]

Spring Cleaning!

Did you know there are over 3 million files on the server for staff files? With more being added every minute, hour, and day, we’re filling space quickly. In the spirit of spring cleaning, we’re asking staff members to clean up their H drives and J drive folders as the school year winds down. Files [...]

Power Searching Session

On May 1st some of the Library Media Specialists and 5/6 Computer teachers will be taking part in a Power Searching class. We’ll be sharing resources and activities to help improve the quality and accuracy of student searches. Here are some of the links we’ll be using: Digital Information Fluency (DIF): Question to Query Operators [...]

File Trouble

Students may bring in files from home in formats that don’t work immediately with our software. There are a few fixes . . . Office 2007 Files (.docx or .pptx): There’s a converter available for these files. Go to Start >> Troubleshooting >> Office 2000 >> Install Office 2007 Compatibility Pack. Load the converter. Open [...]