Tag: 169 tech tips
169 Tech Tip #26: My Mouse Doesn’t Work
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: #26: My Mouse Doesn’t Work
Category: Hardware
Q: My mouse stopped working. Do I need a new one?
A: Maybe, but try a few things first:
169 Tech Tip #25: My Desktop Keyboard Doesn’t Work
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: #25: My Desktop Keyboard Doesn’t Work
Category: Hardware
Q: I need to type a lesson plan, but all I get is a cursor that blinks… and blinks… but goes nowhere. What do I do?
A: The first culprit to investigate is the keyboard. Try these solutions:
169 Tech Tip #102: Doc Saved Over? Try This
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: #102–Doc Saved Over? Try This
Category: Google Apps
Sub-category: MS Office, Problem-solving
Q: My students often save a blank document over their document. Is there any way to retrieve the file?
A: Absolutely. If you’re on Google Docs, go to Revisions. Select the version of the document you know was correct and restore it.
169 Tech Tip #78: Save a File so Everyone Can Read it
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: #78–Save a File so Everyone Can Read it
Category: Google Apps
Sub-category: MS Office
Q: I need to make my document readable by colleagues that don’t have my software (such as I use MS Word and they don’t). What do I do?
A: In both Google Apps and MS Office, you can save a document in a variety of formats, including the easy-to-read PDF. If you use Google Docs, you can also 1) share or 2) download in a variety of formations including PDF. This is also true of webtools that offer a wide variety of methods for saving and sharing. Pick the one best suited to the task, purpose, and audience.
In MS Office:
- click ‘save as’ for your document
- drop down the ‘save as type’ and select ‘PDF’
- save
If the problem is that the recipient doesn’t have a current version of MS Word (say, you have 2010 and they have 2003), then save the doc as follows:
- go to File-save as
- select file type 97-2003 (see first inset below).
169 Tech Tip #59: Alt Keys
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: #59–Alt Keys Add Symbols
Category: Google Apps
Sub-category: MS Office, Webtools, Keyboarding, Problem-solving
Q: How do I create the copyright symbol (or another symbol) in Google Apps or Word?
A: It’s easier than you think. Hold down the Alt key and press 0169. ©. Use the keypad with the num lock on–don’t use the number row. I could not get this to work until someone pointed out that you must use the keypad. Duh.
Have students try out some others that would be useful for them. For example:
169 Tech Tip #112: How to Open 2 Gmail Accounts at Once
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: #112–How to Open 2 Gmail Accounts at Once
Category: Email
Sub-category: Google Apps, Classroom management
Q: I have a home Gmail account and a school one. How do I open both at once so I can keep track of what my kids/home business/etc. is doing while at my teaching job?
A: I got this quick answer from efriend and tech guru Chris Hoffman: Open each account in a separate browser. It has to do with each browser keeping its own cookie.
Stepping back a moment, here’s why you might need this:
169 Tech Tip #99: Need Email Accounts for Registration? Try This
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: #99–Need Email Accounts for Registration? Try This
Category: Email
Sub-category: Webtools, Problem-solving, Classroom management
Q: A lot of web-based tools require email verification. Many of my students don’t have these at school or home. What do I do?
A: This is a lot easier than you’d think. Gmail ignores anything that comes after a + in a username. JonDoe is the same as JonDoe+thinglink. Use that to your advantage with student accounts. They can use your email address and append their name with the +. You can even set up a filter to send all those + emails to a separate folder so it doesn’t annoy you.
169 Tech Tip #98: 13 Tips for Email Etiquette
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: #98–13 Tips for Email Etiquette
Category: Email
Sub-category: Assessment
Here’s a poster with 13 email etiquette tips to share with new users:
169 Tech Tip #83: Find Outlook Follow-up Folder
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: #83–Find Outlook Follow-up Folder
Category: Email
Sub-category: Problem-solving
Q: I had to reformat my computer and lost the ‘For Follow Up’ folder in Outlook. How do I bring this back?
A: This isn’t important until it happens to you. To re-create it, choose File>New>Search Folder or use the shortkey Ctrl+Shift+P. Highlight ‘Mail flagged for follow up’ and click OK.
A note: Search folders are collected at the bottom of the folder list.
169 Tech Tip #77: Use BCC to Hide Email Addresses
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: #77–Use BCC to Hide Email Addresses
Category: Email
Sub-category: Security, Parents
Q: I want to send an email to a list of people, but want to keep their email addresses private. How do I do that?
A: Put email addresses under the BCC field. In the ‘to’ field, put no-reply@yourdomain.com. It doesn’t matter what you put. It’ll bounce back to you as undeliverable, but all of your bcc emails will go out as planned.
