Opening MS Word 2007 documents with older versions of Word February 2, 2009
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If you have recently purchased a new computer with MS Office, or have been sent a document by someone who has, you may have seen some files that look to be Microsoft Office documents, but their file extensions were different from what you are used to. The new Microsoft Office 2007 saves documents with different file extensions — the Word files are most commonly save with the .docx file extension. Older versions of Word (like what we have here at school) won’t open the newer documents unless you load a converter on your computer. The converter can be downloaded for free from Microsoft by visiting this webpage http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
Also remember, you can always save a file as an older version or even in a version compatible with another program such as WordPerfect or MS Works, by changing the “Save As Type” at the bottom of the Save As dialog box.
~Happy Computing,
Katrina
Got (too much) Mail? November 13, 2008
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Does your email inbox take up more than one screen? Do you have messages that you just don’t want to delete, but that really don’t need to be cluttering up your inbox? Try making folders to organize things a bit. Check out the attached document with step-by-step directions on how to create folders in the email system to keep your email organized!
Organizing Email Using Folders
Automobile Recall Notices November 11, 2008
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The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI), an office within the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), is now offering the option to have recall notices for vehicles sent to your email. By visiting the ODI’s webpage and choosing the E-Mail Recall Notifications link, you can sign up to receive email notifications whenever a recall notice is posted for your vehicle(s). You can choose to receive all vehicular recall notices or you can specify up to 5 make and model year combinations (unfortunately you can’t get as specific as your actual model). You can also receive recall notices concerning motorcycles, buses and trailers (including RV trailers).
Creating Email Lists in DeskNow November 3, 2008
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Would you like to have your own personal listserv? Want to always send the same cute pictures of your kids to the same group of people without having to type in all the individual names everytime? Create your own listserv in the DeskNow program to save yourself time! Here is a step-by-step instruction sheet on how to do this.
Learn360 October 28, 2008
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I hope you all have had a chance to check out our new video streaming resource — Learn360. I had an excellent question the other day about Learn360 and the playlist feature. The question was “can I share my playlist with other teachers?” Well, I played around a little, but didn’t see that such a feature existed so I emailed our representative at the Learn360 company and he got back to me with some good news … right now the ability to share your playlists doesn’t exist, BUT it will with the new version that is coming out in January, so we just have to wait a little bit and we will be able to share our lists! He also told me that we will be able to make groups and share things that way as well … keep watch for these new features coming soon. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask me and I’ll do my best to find out the answers!
Katrina
Saving your favorites/bookmarks May 22, 2008
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Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted — I’ve gotten busy preparing for the big move. I probably won’t post too much more for the rest of the year unless something like today’s topic comes up. I’ll be back with lots of tips and great resources after we’ve gotten everything settled — hope you’ll join us then!
I believe every effort will be made to allow you to keep your current teacher station next year, but you may want to take a couple of precautions just in case that doesn’t happen.
1) Save any documents that are currently on your computer to your H (server) drive as a backup! (This is as simple as opening up two windows, one of your H drive, one of your My Documents folder. Highlight everything in your My Documents folder, click and drag it to your H drive.)
2) Export any favorites/bookmarks you have saved in your internet browser (Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox). I’ve created a couple of how-to documents on this topic and they are attached.
Saving your bookmarks in Firefox
Saving your bookmarks in Internet Explorer
I hope you find this helpful!
Katrina
Tech Terms April 7, 2008
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Ever wonder what the difference between a Megabyte and a Gigabtye is? What is a LAN? A thumb drive? Do all these technology related terms confuse you? Check out this online Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms. Terms are listed alphabetically and the definitions seem to be written in language most anyone can understand!
Picturing America March 26, 2008
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The Picturing America website is part of an exciting initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities to bring masterpieces of American Art into classrooms and libraries. The gallery is searchable by image, artist or theme, and each image includes additional information about both the image and the artist, and offers links to quality web resources related to either the image or the artist. This is an awesome resource not only for art lessons, but also as a place to get images to accompany lessons in other subject areas. This would also be a great source for students to get high quality images for projects. A link to this web resource has been added to our webpage: Media Center | Subject Area Links | Art Resources (under The Arts).
Lesson Plans Resource — Science March 24, 2008
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The ScienceNet Links Lesson Plans page contains science lesson plans sorted by grade level. Lessons are also tagged to show which offer printable student worksheets, electronic student worksheets, and hands-on activities. The main listing of lessons also includes national benchmark correlation information and can be sorted by benchmark. A link to this resource has been added to our webpage. (Teacher Resources | Internet Tools 4 Teachers | Science section)
Need a Map? February 28, 2008
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Most all of us have visited MapQuest or Yahoo maps to find maps and directions for an upcoming trip. The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection includes those and so much more! Not only does it list the commonly known mapping sites, it also lists other mapping sites and lists links to many sites with specialized maps, such as maps of the Toronto subway, bike trails in the Grand Junction, Colorado area, and other points of interest around the world.
