Author: Jacqui
Tech Tip #5: Where Did the Taskbar Go?
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: Where Did the Taskbar Go?
Category: PC, Keyboarding
Q: Some programs hide the taskbar when they open. How do I access the Start button when that happens?
A: Push the flying windows (between Ctrl and Alt) to bring up the Start button.
It might have disappeared because it’s set to Autohide. Here’s how to fix that:
- Hover over the area where the taskbar lives.
- If it appears, right click on it and select Properties. Go to the Taskbar tab.
- Make sure the box that says Autohide isn’t checked.
If the taskbar doesn’t appear, hover over the extreme bottom edge of the screen. If a double-headed arrow appears, click and drag up to bring your toolbar back from the edge.
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9 St. Patrick’s Day Resources For Your Class
St. Patrick’s Day is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated on March 17th to honor St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, credited with bringing Christianity to the country. The day is marked by parades, wearing green clothing and accessories, traditional Irish music and dance, feasting, and the symbolic consumption of foods and beverages like corned beef, cabbage, and Irish stout. It has become a global celebration of Irish culture and heritage.
Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun websites with activities for different grade levels, different classes (click for updates on this list):
Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day
Two math celebrations are coming up on March 14th: Pi Day and World Maths Day
Pi Day
Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of π in the decimal form.
Daniel Tammet, a high-functioning autistic savant, holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes.
13 Tips to Solve Unusual Problems
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: Solutions to unusual problems
Category: Problem-solving
Whether you follow Habits of Mind, Common Core, Depth of Knowledge, IB, or another K-12 learning strategy, every student must learn problem-solving to become a functioning, contributing adult. There are thirteen great strategies that can be taught as part of ‘problem solving’ between kindergarten and eighth grade—a few each year, when they’re age-appropriate for your group.
Here’s a poster with the strategies. Post it on the wall in your classroom. Let students notice when they’ve accomplished one and what’s coming up in their future:
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#12: Create Simple Shapes in Excel
What’s the first thing you think of when I say, Excel? Numbers, right–turning data into information. That is Excel’s ‘killer app’, but the ingenious human brain has come up with another striking use for Excel: Drawing. I spent a long time trying to find a lesson that taught drawing in Excel, finally gave up and created my own” (more…)
Tech Tip #165 My Program Disappeared
Today’s tip: Find a lost program
Category: Problem-solving
If a program disappears, here are two quick ways to find it more than half the time (on PCs):
- Look around the screen
- Check the taskbar
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What You Might Have Missed in February–What’s up in March
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#34: How to Teach Dolch Words with Graphic Art Tools
Before you start this project, you might want to visit How to KidPix I and How to KidPix II.
There are a lot of graphic art options for youngers. We choose KidPix because it is user friendly, easily understood, and doesn’t clutter up the screen with anything other than what new graphic artists need.
