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: Desktop Icons Disappeared
Category: PC
Q: My desktop icons disappeared for no known reason. What do I do?
A: This is a question I get often. One moment, shortcuts are lined up like little soldiers. The next, not. Try:
- Right click on the desktop.
- Select
- Make sure ‘Show Desktop Icons’ is checked.
Desktop icons reappear.
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
Thanks, Jacqui. I haven’t had my desktop icons disappear, but I’ll now know what to do if they do.
It happened first when students did it in my lab. Aren’t they funny!