Feb 7 Tech Tuesday

Need a reading extension for your students? Chromebooks? 

Try: 

• Stack up app that categorizes time spent in research, online etc. (can be used as a feedback piece for you and your students)
• https://www.stackup.net/getting-started/
• Tracks time spent, reading level
• Can push out challenges for your students can give students a code by using stakcup.net
• You can specify the website or websites for them to read
• Students LOVE the competition, and relish the reading time
• What about setting differentiated challenges? Not sure.
• More data for kids in a way that makes sense

Jan 3, 2017- Tech Tuesday notes!

Here are some of the things we talked about!

Organization Help

Videos shared with air share in MacBook Air

• Store videos in folder, access in finder
• Use GDocs to write evaluation notes

Create a folder on your destktop, or My documents

• Continue to create a new folder system inside the folders

Article Clutter organizers

Mercury reader (trims ads and pictures of cluttered website)

• Great for printing or saving as PDF
• PDF can be shared with iPads and opened in iBooks

Tab Organizers

Get Toby

One Tab

CHROME

• Sign into chrome browser (upper right side with siloutlette icon)

Prizes:

- cord organizers for all!

Wise something - from Dan Kloster

Shannon and I learned how to move icons and create folders

Felicity added the IC Web page as icon to her home page using "add to home screen"

Jerry, Dan and I used "air drop" to share photos, files and notes

Jean Gurlue won the bluetooth wireless mouse- which turned out to be a lame prize. We can't get it to work.

Jamie V used her camera to do cool things!

Erick F and I were trying to manage our storage space and can't quite find the right answer we want to see- more free store when we have multiple machines on the same account! :)

More next time!

Fun with iPads

Here are some great apps and techniques we discussed at Tech Tuesday today...give them a try!

Note sharing/task sharing app:
Google Keep (android, chrome app or in browser)
GoTask
*With either account- sign in with your google account it information is shared across devices

Split keyboard to text easier

Activate camera and take photos from your lock screen (Jerry T says kids fill up his memory with this)

From the lock screen, slide up to activate iPad control center
to access AIR SHARE, lock screen, camera, timer, do not disturb, etc.

Set up do not disturb to you will not receive notifications/pop ups
Settings>Do Not Disturb>Scheduled     then set times to allow pop ups etc

St Vrain Digital Library
Install Overdrive app from absolute apps. Create an overdrive account, search libraries for
St. Vrain Valley School District, select Silver Creek Library
Once installed, click on St. Vrain Valley School District and log in with your citrix password

PS- if you need collaboration hours, make sure to write down time spent today!

Just for fun:

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!