http://tech.collegiatecreate.org Technology @ Collegiate Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:57:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Doug Fodeman and Marje Monroe from Children Online visited Collegiate yesterday to speak with 4-12 grades, the faculty, and parents about Internet Safety and best practices.  Their visit was well received with Upper School students reflecting on their online presence, Middle and Lower School students gaining techniques to better protect ... http://tech.collegiatecreate.org/2008/03/13/children-online-visits-collegiate/ Ever have a PDF with text on it that you wanted to 'extract' or edit? Let's say you've scanned in a list of names and addresses and now want to take that information and put it into an Excel spreadsheet. Here's how to pull that text out ... http://tech.collegiatecreate.org/2008/02/21/how-to-turn-a-pdf-into-an-editable-text-document-using-adobe-acrobat-and-gmail/ Course Settings and Forums Glossaries http://tech.collegiatecreate.org/2008/02/13/introduction-moodle-tutorials/ Below are the graphs analyzing our Fall 2007 faculty/staff technology survey:   http://tech.collegiatecreate.org/2008/02/01/fall-facultystaff-survey-results/ When I came to Collegiate in 2001, we had a T1 Connection to the Internet. That's 1.54 Mbps. 1,540,000 Million Bits per second. Lots has changed since then. The Internet started as text based pages, then added images and now video is ... http://tech.collegiatecreate.org/2008/01/30/why-is-the-internet-slow/ To Install a Printer on Your Computer at Collegiate: Double click on the Printers folder that is on your computer desktop Right click on the network copy machine where you would like to print (see list of network copy machines below) Select Connect To ... http://tech.collegiatecreate.org/2008/01/11/to-install-a-printer-on-your-computer-at-collegiate/ This is an amazing list of networks for/by educators who are collaborating in communities of practice: Social Networking in Education by Steve Hargadon If you need a little primer on the power of social networks, here's a quick youtube video: Do you think that this could help ... http://tech.collegiatecreate.org/2008/01/11/looking-for-an-online-community-of-practice/ ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY: Computer Resources and the Internet 2007-2008 School Year INTRODUCTION The Collegiate School offers its students, faculty, and administration access to its computer network and the Internet. In providing network and Internet service throughout the School, the goal is to facilitate access to resources, improve communication and encourage innovation. ... http://tech.collegiatecreate.org/2008/01/09/2007-2008-acceptable-use-policy/ If you receive this error: Do the following. 1. Check to see if there is a server name next to the Server: text on the FirstClass Login window. 2. If there is no text there or it does not read fc.collegiateschool.org, click on Setup. 3. Type fc. collegiateschool.org in the Server area of the ... http://tech.collegiatecreate.org/2007/10/22/firstclass-there-is-no-firstclass-server-with-that-name-on-the-network/ I tell our faculty and staff that the following things qualify as emergency situations: 1. You cannot log on, but others near you can. 2. You cannot get your email, but others near you can. 3. You cannot print and need to do so immediately, but others around you can. 4. A piece of ... http://tech.collegiatecreate.org/2007/10/18/great-guidance-on-emergency-technology-situations/