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TWTW Teaching with the Web |
The Instructional Technology Journal of Volume 1, Number 2 May 15,
2006 |
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Laptop Will Replace Your Other Teacher
Workstation 5/15/06 The laptop you received will replace any
existing workstation that you have used as a teacher workstation. That was part of the plan submitted to the
Board in order to get the laptops. We cannot
justify teachers having two computers for exclusive use. Files and folders that you want to keep from
your existing desktop computer should be copied to your flash drive or burned
to a CD so those can be moved to your laptop.
It is your responsibility to backup the files you want to keep. Existing workstations will be formatted,
“zeroed,” and prepared for student use in classrooms. When the formatting begins this summer, OCS
staff will not attempt to save any files.
Your existing teacher workstation will remain in your classroom for
student use – unless your principal decides to move it somewhere else (for
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Important Teacher Notes ·
Your
laptop is equipped with wireless networking.
You can turn on or turn off the wireless antenna by pressing the Fn+F2
key combination. Your antenna is on if
the first light below your touchpad is blue; if the light is off, you cannot
use wireless. ·
You
cannot put a personal wireless router in your classroom or anywhere else in
your building. Unsecured wireless
routers allow other people to access your school’s network without anyone’s
knowledge. Students could bring their
own laptops or handheld computers and access the network and the Internet –
with the potential for jamming legitimate access. Others could bring in computers that are
heavily infected, connect wirelessly, and spread viruses and worms so quickly
that we would have to shut down the whole network. ·
OCS
is looking into wireless solutions for every school site. When a wireless network is put in place, it
will guarantee the security of each workstation that attaches and the network
as a whole. This will ensure that
everyone will have access for instruction and research. |
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Using Word to Create Web Pages Consider
the following items when creating web pages with Word: ·
To start your web page from scratch, choose Table/Insert Table
first. When asked the number of
columns and rows, use 3 columns and 5 rows to start. ·
Highlight the whole table. Then
click Format/Borders and Shading. On
the Borders tab, choose None. ·
Highlight the whole first row – just the 3 cells on that first
row. Then click Table/Merge
Cells. Now you can type in the name of
your web page in the one long cell across the top of your table. ·
Click in the middle cell in the second row. Then choose Insert/Picture/From File and
navigate to any picture you’ve saved in your folder. Resize the picture to fit the cell you put
it in. ·
Use one or more of the other cells to type text about a lesson or an
activity in which your class is involved. ·
Use one or more cells to add links to websites related to the lesson
or activities your students are doing.
Remember that you can use the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V key combinations to
copy and paste the website addresses.
If you want to make “clickable” text, just highlight the text, choose
Insert/Hyperlink and Ctrl+V the address into that window. ·
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Site Survey: Websites that Educate,
Enlighten, Entertain, and Engage ·
KinderGARDEN ·
Electronic White Board Resouces ·
ReadWriteThink ·
The Electronic Zoo |
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The Laptop-and-Projector Project
Website Tech Project:
http://www.gwd50.k12.sc.us/TechPlans/TechPlan2006.htm Instructional Resources:
http://www.gwd50.k12.sc.us/TechPlans/StaffDevResources.htm
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