Herman Wood

Welcome Back!

Summer is almost over for you! Why am I happy about that? It means it's almost time for me to get to work with you again! I've been busy with two courses, iNtegrating iLife iNto iLearning and eXtending iLife iNto iLearning, as well as the National Educational Computing Convention in San Antonio.

I learned lots at the Convention! You can see the sessions I attended and my notes at:

http://edtech.typepad.com/theblog/

Of note, there was quite the brouhaha at the convention by a request from ISTE, the organization who puts on the convention, that they wanted podcasters to not only get the permission of presenters to record, but to get permission from ISTE. ISTE bowed to pressure to drop the request, but it started quite the conversation.

I'd like to wrap up by saying hello! Hello to two schools that are new to me, Barber and Lost Mountain. I look forward to working with you!

IE Favorites

If you have moved your Internet Explorer Favorites and need to re-import, the pdf below will help! If you haven't moved them and would like to, the attached will help you too!

Download Backing_Up_Favorites.pdf

Atomic Learning

Atomic Learning is a terrific resource available to you! Any employee can use it at their desk, in front of students, or even at home. They have tutorials on about any software available to us in the district. They recently added Lesson Accelerators, which take you through student projects all the way from planning to implementation.

The best way to get started is to use Atomic Learning to learn about Atomic Learning! Go to http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/support

You'll be asked to login. Your user name is your e-number, found on your check. If you've used it before, you have already set up a password. If not, then I'll share the default password for the district in person. You should change your password right away.

Once you've looked at the above, click on Our Tutorials at the top of the page, find one you're interested in, and take a look.

Finally, take a look at the Lesson Accelerators. Click on the Atomic Learning Home icon at the top.

In the right hand column, click More Lesson Accelerators to see what's available.

ROWS: Moving Files

Backing Up Files to Your Home Directory

Note: The Home Directory is the same as your H Drive (badge id)

IMPORTANT: Your Home Directory does not have as much space as your hard drive so be sure you are only moving the files you use. If you have large files (i.e., images, digital movie files, graphics-intense documents) contact your school refresh contact for alternatives to saving the files to your home directory.

Moving One File
1. Log on to the old computer with your network log in.
2. Locate a file that has been saved on the hard drive. A good place to look is in the My Documents folder or on the desktop.
3. Right click on the file and select Copy.
4. Double click on the My Computer icon on the desktop.
5. Locate and double click on your home directory (look for your badge id).

6. Click on Edit Paste. The file should appear in the home directory window.
7. Repeat the move above to save additional files.

Moving More Than One File
You can move more than one file at a time to your H: Drive.
1. Log on to the old computer with your network log in.
2. Locate the files that have been saved on the hard drive. A good place to look is in the My Documents folder or on the desktop.
3. Click on the Ctrl key on the keyboard.
4. While holding down the Ctrl key, click on each file you want to move.
5. Click on Edit Copy.
6. Double click on the My Computer icon on the desktop.
7. Locate and double click on your home directory (look for your badge id).
8. Click on Edit Paste. The file should appear in the home directory window.

Moving a Folder
You can move an entire folder of files instead of moving individual files.
1. Log on to the old computer with your network log in.
2. Locate the folder that contains the files that have been saved on the hard drive.
3. Right click on the folder and select Copy.
4. Double click on the My Computer icon on the desktop.
5. Locate and double click on your home directory (look for your badge id).
6. Click on Edit Paste. The folder should appear in the home directory window.

Download these instructions as a PDF for printing by clicking here.

Thanks to Tanya Ditty for this step by step!

Comments & Trackbacks

Comments are a way to allow others to have something to say on your blog. Our district requires that comments be moderated, and all blogs within the district are configured to do that. What moderation means is that the author of the post on the blog must approve the comment before it can be seen on the blog.

To allow comments, set the pulldown under Comments at the bottom of your post to Open:

To moderate comments, click List Comments:

You'll be presented with a list of all the comments on your blog:

You can approve or delete several at a time by clicking the check box next to the comment and clicking either approve, delete, or report spam (Yes, the spammers have found ways to create comment spam! I have seen very little on my blogs.) You can also look at each comment by clicking on the comment to read it and choose whether or not to publish it:

Trackbacks are a different animal. Essentially, it's a way for one blog to let another blog it's being talked about. For more, visit these two links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrackBack

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