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: Make Desktop Icons Big or Little
Category: Problem-solving
Q: The desktop icons are tiny on my desktop. I don’t know how it happened, so I don’t know how to undo it. Please help!
A: This solution I learned in self-defense, like many other tips I share, when my students figured it out and made my desktop icons HUGE or tiny. Here’s how to fix that:
- Highlight all desktop icons by clicking and dragging a box around them.
- Push Ctrl and roll the mouse wheel. It enlarges or delarges them.
That’s it. How wonderful. I no longer have to squint at icons too small for my eyes.
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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, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
Great tip. I didn’t know that. I haven’t had to use it yet, which is a good thing. I hope I remember it if I ever do.
It’s one of those Duh things you wish you’d known a long time ago.
Yeah. There are so many simple and easy tricks – when you know. Thank you for sharing them.