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Technology Resources for Teachers

Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:25:35 -0800

Check these out:

http://www.4j.lane.edu/tilt/teachertools

http://www.4j.lane.edu/tilt/hardware

http://www.4j.lane.edu/tilt/onlinesubscriptions

http://staff.4j.lane.edu/~young_p/tech/Treks/How-Tos_/How-Tos_.html

http://4jtilt.wikispaces.com/

Problems With AppleWorks 6 in Leopard?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:35:04 -0800

Here’s the answer: http://blogs.4j.lane.edu/hochberg_m/?s=Appleworks+6

Downloading & Installing SmartBoard Software

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:06:29 -0800

Downloading & Installing SmartBoard Software

get on internet & go to this address:
http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/SBS/NBSv10MacEval.htm

click on download full version for mac:

after downloading file to desktop (save file), double-click on dmg icon, then double-click on install icon

enter key #: NB-AEAAN-DAMGW-XJPIB-M2C2J

be patient, installing all of the galleries takes some time...

after installation is complete, go into your hard drive “Applications” folder > “Notebook Software” folder & drag Notebook icon to your dock

SBMS Student Email & Using Pages with Word

Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:17:45 -0800

Email and Attachments for Students

Objective: Students learn to access their email, send and receive email and make attachments to email.

Accessing Email 
From the front page of the Spencer Butte website website - http://schools.4j.lane.edu/spencerbutte - click on Webmail link.

Login with user name and password.

Sending Email 
1. Select “Compose”
2. Enter address in the “To” box
3. Enter subject
4. Type and send email
5. To reply to an email select the reply button while viewing the email you wish to reply to.

Attachments 
1. Have the desired document to attach on the desktop.
2. Compose or reply to an email.
3. Select attach.
4. Select browse.
5. Select Desktop in the left-hand column.
6. Select your document you wish to attach.
7. Click open.
8. Click “Add.”
9. Click “Attach.”
10. Send email.

Using Pages at School with Word at Home

Pages, the word processing program on all computers at SBMS, is compatible with Microsoft’s Word. Students can compose documents in Pages, and file, export them as a Word document, and attach in an email to work on that document at home in Word. Email it back to yourself and open a Word document in Pages at school.

New Teacher Technology Standards

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:07:12 -0800

OK folks, here are the new technology standards for teachers (NETS-T):

NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf

Want to Access 4J Servers from Home/Anywhere?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:20:58 -0700

> Download Instructions & the VPN Client

Ways to Save Your Documents - For Gilham Teachers

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:41:20 -0700

Click here for Instructions

All About the New 4J “Web Filter”

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:21:49 -0700

Over the summer, the district put a new web filter in place - district-wide - to secure us and our students from the wild frontier of the internet. Now we all have to log on to the district network with usernames and passwords and “authenticate” to reach the internet, our email and the printer / anything on our network.

It works differently on “wired” (yellow cord attached) and “wireless” (COW laptops) computers:

on wired computers, you can access anything on the 4J network, and don’t have to “authenticate”
until you travel outside of the 4J network

on the “wireless” network, you will have to “authenticate” immediately on Aruba to go anywhere on
the network; you may have to click the “refresh” button / go to another website to “clear the cache”
and reach the Aruba login page

Teachers > you will have to make some changes in your internet browser settings on your teacher computers for the web filter to operate correctly:

Safari > click on “Safari” and uncheck “Block Pop-Up Windows”
Firefox > click on “Firefox” and select “Preferences”, then “Content”, keep the box checked for “Block
Pop-Up Windows”, click on “Exceptions” and enter lane.edu

Student Info > Student usernames and password lists can be accessed through ESIS.

Teachers > login to this CIS site - http://www.4j.lane.edu/cis/ - to learn how to generate
“Class Labels of Student Usernames” (Gilham)

Unfortunately, the student usernames and passwords are not the same as the FS3 server
(Spencer Butte)

More updated information about the new 4J web filter can be accessed here:
http://ns.lane.edu/webfilter/updates

Digital Storytelling - A Recipe

Wed, 28 May 2008 12:37:33 -0700

Here it is folks, tried and true, a recipe for producing Digital Stories with your students:

DigitalStories.pdf

Enjoy!

Oh yeah, don’t forget to break up into small groups (5-6) in a quietish place for the narration part...

iWeb for Teachers > Creating & Publishing Your Website

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:15:21 -0700

Click on link below to learn how to configure “Fetch” , create an iWeb Welcome page, and publish your website to your 4J URL >

iWebWorkshop.pdf