Keychain help?

Having trouble with an obnoxious pop up that says Keychain?

Here is a link that tells how to get rid of it!

or - read below from the tech blog!

Delete Keychain

Break-Fix | Tags: keychain

How to resolve the keychain error message.

1. Close all applications

2. In the Finder click Go, now while holding down the Option key on your keyboard, click Library. This opens the Library folder.

3. Open the Keychains folder

4. Select and delete all the files and folders in it.

5. Important! Restart the computer: Apple > Restart…

6. After the restart and logging back in, if prompted Create New Keychain

Top Ten Mac Mini Tips! Tip #1 - how to set up a printer!

Oh the questions...

How do you set up a default printer?
How do you set up any printer?
How can I print from the Internet?
How can I print from Word?

Most answers are the same. You can usually use a pull down menu (downward triangle) to expose an alphabetic list of printers. Select the printer you want, and hit print.

Once you have printed, the default is to print to that printer over and over (print to last printer)

If you would like to change the default printer, you should:

• go to preferences (the gear on the lower right, or from the app
• click on Printers
• find default printer (lower right)
• click on the downward triangle to expose all printers
• select a printer 
• close preferences

Click here for a link to view the video in Google Docs

OR

View the video in YouTube below: 

Top Ten Mac Mini Tips! Tip #2 - How to access YouTube

How many times has this happened to you?

You have the exact URL for a YouTube video and it won't open?

OR

You are trying to search for the YouTube Video and IBoss won't let you?

You can Over ride this with your teacher privileges.

Simply type:
override.svvsd.org

1. Into the browser URL box and hit return. 
2. It will open a new pop up tab and you can enter your password information.
3. DON'T CLOSE THE TAB
4. Search for your video, or paste your absolute URL for the video in the browser

For more help- click here to watch this video.

Or

Watch it in YouTube below!

Top Ten Mac Mini Tips! Tip #3 How to access Citrix without opening your browser!

Yes! It is true!

There is an icon on your desktop that when opened shows ALL your citrix docs!
*It probably isn't in a format you are used to...so you can sort on NAME or on KIND to get it closer to what you know!

You can also drag it into FINDER for easy access. This action also allows you to SAVE from WORD, POWER POINT or EXCEL directly to your citrix folder.

Click here for a video to see how it is done!

or view the YouTube below!

Top Ten Mac Mini Tips! #4- How to Access Staff Links

Can't find Infinite Campus?
Can't find the link to Enrich?
Having trouble finding the Citrix icon to launch Citrix?

There are tremendous resources on the Staff or Educators page linked to the Student Page CERAN.

STEPS:
Ceran>click Staff (upper right corner of page)

WATCH the Video!

View the Video in Youtube!

Top 10 Mac Mini Tips! #5-10

Ever have trouble like this?

• Mouse doesn't work
• keyboard doesn't work
• desktop/screen seems frozen
• revolving WHEEL OF DEATH never leaves!
• put in flash drive, screen freezes
• untold other sad sad stories that make you want to throw it out the window

Believe it or not, 87% of all issues can be solved with a hard restart of your machine. 

Steps:

• Press and HOLD the power button on your Mac Mini (not the Monitor)
• this will cause the screen to go black
• let it rest for about 10 seconds
• Press and RELEASE the power button to resume start up. 

This should help everything work better. 

TIP- It is recommended that you shut down your Mac Mini every night to clear up any issues that you might be having with your computer.

GOOD LUCK!

Calypso projector & sound system!

Need some help with the sound in your room?

Watch this brief video to help...there are several ways to adjust it!

Good luck and call me for suggestions!

Click it Tuesday!

Today we talked about two clicker classroom systems...

Jerry introduced us the app PLICKERS which is a student clicker like tool- students are given unique cards which they can hold up to represent an A-D multiple choice answer. Jerry can quickly scan the classroom and his camera picks up all the cards responses and can even assign those responses to an individual student. (See video below)

Phil talked about Kahoot! A student response system where you can set up a quiz, survey etc. on you computer and students can navigate to a web site on their phones or tablets to do a game like quiz. Very fun and game like....good for assessing general knowledge or review, prob not so good for specific stuff on students.
(It keeps track of the student Nickname, but not data on each student.)

Plickers:

Kahoot

Did you know...

There is now a DOCS App, SLIDES (really good) and SHEETS app for iPad

Example- the SLIDES app loads the slides faster than with the web iPad app. Jerry found when using Airserver to the Mac- it would change the formatting and view of the images etc. The SLIDES iPad app  very consistent.

Tech issues projecting iPad

Some troubles with projecting from the iPad or iPhone even with the dongle.  Apparently it doesn't have the power to shoot all the way to the projector. Phil has experimented with a signal booster  from Amazon and has had SUCCESS!

You can check it out from the library!

Tuesday April 29

Nice Meeting for Tech Tuesday today!

Here are some cool things we talked about today:

MoveNote- great Chrome extension that activates Camera and displays docs, ppt or images while you narrate. stores video on site and gives you a URL to share.

Vigil and I used it for student preso (see example) so that they could share their assessment Kiosk/museum style with other students.

Also available as an app from google play or itunes for iPad, iPhone or Tablet

Great for flipped/blended classroom model for google extensions, also an APP
*will get Hyperlink for iTunes and website soon.

Cam Scanner - lite (suggested by Chris!)

scan documents and select a portion of it, crop it, enhance it to get rid of background

share documents

Chris suggests: What if a student scans their homework, cleans it with camscanner, shares with with you in google drive.

Inkflow… Kate G

note taking tool- but with cool enhancements

select text, move it make it bigger, attach to something else.

penultimate - Kloster

note taking tool

How to view and edit your docs

smart office  Kloster

if you need offline access to

allow you to word process even on your phone

Google docs APP

see and edit your google docs

Haiku Deck- Kate -

Presentation tool-

Kate G uses it for art pieces, easy to upload images, can put text in, has a presenter mode shows what you have uploaded...turn it sideways (portrait mode) and the slide you display is shown with your notes below. Very cool. Kate can send to projector through Air Share and walk around class to present. Can’t embed video. Links online with account...can access and share with students.

March 4th!

Nice meeting today where we discussed the use of iPads in classrooms, and what cool things folks are doing with them.

Nearpod- can broadcast to student iPads and Smart Phones. Can send ppts, questions, freeze screen etc. Nice for when we want to push information.

Google chat and forms in Jerry's Photo class as a discussion piece. (Ask Jerry for more info)

Air-Share- Jerry had another log in on his sign in, so Josh W is going to try to do some wireless sharing from his iPad to his Mac (docs, camera, etc) Will update us next time.

There are currently 16 modules in the Learning Tech Plan CLASSES web site. Classes include iPad Basics, Flipped Classroom, iPad as Planner etc. There are even Face to Face classes that mirror the online...here is the link to the iPad Basics (March 19&20) in SVVSD PD.

Here is a link to a nice article about the classes from Zac Chase. You can take 4 online courses (about 2 hrs each) for .5 credit

For more information about the Learning Tech Plan Visit their web site!

Did I forget anything? :)