Here is my handout. Some of it is covered in other places in this blog. It was created on a Mac using Pages. I am trying to get more comfortable using the iWork software and I think that while it is not as much of a workhorse as Word it was fun and easy to export as a PDF.
Jumpdrive
Create a folder
PowerPoint Backgrounds and creating content in Word
Adding Sound to PowerPoint and making the music play across multiple slides
Creating Screenshots
Creating a group in Outlook Express
Locking your computer
Word Tips
FireFox
End of year grade export
mayStaffDevTips.pdf
Posted in Application, Education, Mac, Microsoft, Personal, Work, firefox, iwork, technology by Dee, May 22, 2008 6:51 pm | Comments Off
How to install software
How to Uninstall Software
The main site is a blog called Mac Kindergarten and there are a lot of great tips there.
An article that tells you basically what Pages in iWork is and is not can be found on Obvious Diversion and it might be a good idea to read this before you dive in and play with the program. A comment that I would add is that while the article talks about Pages just as a word processor it functions very similar to Microsoft Publisher in that you open a template and you can keep it exactly the same and just replace placeholder text with your content or you can move everything around, completely remove some parts and pretty much re-invent the pretty wheel to suit your own needs.
TeacherTube video tutorial for KeyNote
There are quite a few video tutorials on TeacherTube for Macs. I recommend going to the searchbox on the website and just search for a program you want to learn about. This is a great way to get introduced to the software before you dive in and play.
Posted in Mac, iwork by Dee, April 5, 2008 8:02 pm | Comments Off
It has been an “unbusy” week. Spring Break means no school so we have enjoyed family time. There has also been sleeping-inage which has been great!. We went for a drive up in Arkansas (which is becoming a major luxury considering the ridiculous pride of gas these days) , had a family shopping day and did a little closet cleaning and catching up on housekeeping chores. The firewood has been moved out to the back fence and the back porch has been polished up and we ate supper out there tonight.
I helped the praise band at church set up a blog – they now have a name: “The Damascus Road Experience”. I get to sing a little harmony with them but if they ever get a bus I am relegating myself to “roadie” and resident geek.
I will get back to tips and hints for the Mac and PowerPoint tutorials soon. A short hint for tonight: If you have a Word document and want to open it in Pages just drag the document onto the Pages icon in the dock. It will open in pages. If there is much in the way of formatting you may lose the formatting but you will have the basic document. I have already learned that automatic page numbering in the header does some weird things. You can do the same thing with Excel and Numbers or Keynote and PowerPoint. Again this is only a good idea if there is no fancy formatting going on.
Interesting and Scary Article – Outsourcing Patients
What I’m reading – The Last Book In The Universe by Rodman Philbrick
Best TV show ever? The Big Bang Theory (I’m so glad the writer’s strike is over)
Best movie I’ve seen lately – August Rush (yes it is a little corny and some of it is a bit of a rip off on Oliver Twist but Freddie Highmore has the most enchanting smile I have ever seen and you just feel good at the end of the movie – which is becoming rare.)
Happy Resurrection Day tomorrow everyone!
