Tips

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Tips Tricks to Make your Life Easier
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Mini T Training Reminders

• Put turn cell phones to vibrate
• Keep side bar conversations to a Minimum
• Relax, let Kara do all of the work
• No need to write anything down-
• Information will be provided for you.

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Our goals

• Find How To Tutorials
• Learn how to keep computer "healthy
• Find PowerPoint Templates Games
• Find free clip art and sound clips
• Ctrl ABCs
• Learn about Copying, Cutting, Pasting
• Find folders on your computer

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Our goals

• Discover Internet Explorer shortcuts.
• Learn how Favorites Work
• Discover a Delicious tool
• Learn how to steal text from Acrobat.
• Find Useful Fun Sites
• And learn all of this in ONE Session!

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How To Tutorials

• Where can I find how to do
• PowerPoint
• Excel Spreadsheets
• Create tests in Word
• Basic Computer Skills
• Use Internet Explorer and MORE
• Go to Murray Home Page

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How can I keep my computer Healthy?

• Go to Karas website

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Where can I find Games and PowerPoint Templates
already created?
Go To Karas Website
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Where can I find free Sound Clips Clip Art to
use in my classroom?
Go To Karas Website
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Keyboard Shortcuts
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Ctrl ABCs
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Ctrl V

• Control V-is to paste something
• Anytime you copy an item and then it will not
  allow you to paste it by right clicking, use the
  ctrl v shortcut

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Ctrl A

• All
• It will copy everything on the site
• Shortcut to having to scroll down the whole page!

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Ctrl F

• I need to FIND something QUICKLY
• Great Shortcut
• Has to be exactly the way it is in the text to
  work!

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Ctrl P

• Print
• Sometimes you dont see the option to print
  (grayed out)
• Use this shortcut to help with this problem

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Copy, Cut Paste, OH MY

• Paste Special
• Example Standards

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Im Seeing Double!

• Quick Trick on Copying many times
• Hold down CTRL and click and drag
• How easy, How much fun!

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Need a Whole List?

• Hold Shift Down and Scroll to bottom
• All with a click of a button

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Cant find a File or Folder

• Saved something but dont know where you put it?
• Click Start---Then Search
• Dont you wish you could do this for items you
  are missing around the house or your car keys?

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Unblock Me

• Site blocked because of filters on Google
  Toolbar, Yahoo Toolbar, or Internet Explorer
• Example Online Assessment System

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Internet Explorer Shortcuts
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Baby got back!

• Want to go back to the page you were just looking
  at in Internet Explorer?
• Just press the backspace key.

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Page down/up

• To scroll down a really long web page in Internet
  Explorer, just press the spacebar.
• To scroll up, press the shift key and the
  spacebar.

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Minimize and maximize

• To toggle between Internet Explorers minimized
  and maximized (full-screen) views, just
  double-click on IEs title bar.

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Supersize

• Pressing the F11 key in Internet Explorer puts
  you into something called kiosk mode thats
  like the maximized view on steroids.
• It hides (most of) the toolbars and expands the
  web page so that it fills the entire screen.
• You can hide the top toolbar by right-clicking on
  it and choosing Auto-hide.
• To exit kiosk mode, just press F11 again.

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The mother-in-law key

• If you have a BUNCH of open windows and want to
  minimize all of them at once, press and hold the
  Windows key and the letter M.
• The Windows key is that key with the flag on it
  to the left of your spacebar.
• Like Alt F4, Win M is actually a Windows
  shortcut so it works everywhere in Windows
  regardless of what programs you have open.
• Once your mother-in-law leaves, you can maximize
  all those windows again by pressing Windows
  Shift M.

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Auto-prefix and -suffix

• To open a companys homepage in Internet Explorer
  5 or later, you dont actually have to key in
  that companys complete web address.
• Instead, just type the companys name (like
  google or microsoft or GM) in IEs address bar
  and then press the Ctrl and Enter keys.

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Theres no place like home

• Your home page is the first page you see when you
  launch Internet Explorer.
• Your home page can be any web page you want and
  you can change it at any time.
• Just go to Tools gt Internet Options and key in a
  new URL in the Home page box.
• You knew this already, right?

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The power of the shortcut icon

• That little IE shortcut icon we talked about a
  couple of slides ago is like a favorite on
  steroids.
• Drag the shortcut icon down to the body of the
  page to reload that page.
• Drag and drop the shortcut icon into another
  program like Word or PowerPoint to copy and paste
  the URL.
• Drag the icon to your desktop to make a shortcut
  to that particular page.

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Favorites

• Here are 2 (of many) ways to make a favorite
• Favorites gt Add to Favorites
• Ctrl D

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Organize your Internet Explorer favorites list
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What does your Favorites look like?

• Tell the truth Is your Internet Explorer
  favorites list neat and organized or is it an
  absolutely unorganized mess taking up column
  after column on your screen?
• Dont feel too bad.
• The problem is that no one has ever bothered to
  show us how (or why) to clean up and organize our
  favorites lists.

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Editing your favorites list

• Microsoft hasnt helped matters much.
• Most everyone knows that you can (kind of) clean
  up your favorites list by going to Favorites gt
  Organize Favorites

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Organize Favorites

• This opens the Organize Favorites window where
  you can
• Create subfolders.
• Rename favorites.
• Move a favorite into a subfolder.
• Delete a favorite.

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Organize Favorites? ICK!

• Im not a big fan of the Organize Favorites
  window.
• Its too slow.
• Its default size is WAY too small.
• You can only work with one favorite at a time
  (so, if you have a mess of favorites to organize,
  using the Organize Favorites window will take
  just short of forever).
• Fortunately, theres a better, simpler, faster,
  and more powerful way to organize your favorites.

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Windows to the rescue!

• Your favorites list is actually a (somewhat)
  hidden folder on your computer.
• All of your favorites are just text files inside
  of that hidden folder.
• In Windows 95, 98, 98SE, and ME, you can find
  your favorites folder in C\Windows\Favorites
• In Windows 2000 and XP, your Favorites folder is
  kind of buried. Look for it in C\Documents and
  Settings\loginname\Favorites (replacing loginname
  with your Windows user name).

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Finding your Favorites folder

• For example, on the Windows XP computer I used to
  create this PowerPoint Presentation, my loginname
  is Administrator.
• So my favorites list is in C\Documents and
  Settings\Administrator\Favorites

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Organizing your Favorites folder

• Your Favorites folder works just like any other
  folder in Windows.
• If you know simple Windows file managementhow to
  rename files, create folders, drag and drop files
  into foldersyoure good to go!

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Renaming a favorite

• You can also right-click on a particular favorite
  and choose rename.

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Creating a subfolder

• To create a new subfolder, right-click and choose
  New gt Folder.
• Key in the folders name and then press enter.
• Thats it!

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Moving favorites into subfolders

• To move a favorite into a subfolder
• Click and hold your left mouse button on the
  favorite.
• Drag the favorite so that it is on top of the
  folder into which youd like to put it.
• Let go of your mouse button.

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Why organize?

• By organizing your favorites into subfoldersand
  even sub-subfoldersyou make your favorites list
  a LOT easier to navigate.
• For example, a computer, with over 200 favorites
  can look like this

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And heres what my favorites list looks like in
Internet Explorer
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Looks pretty good for over 200 favorites!
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You still with me?
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Backup (and, if you want, export) your favorites
list
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Mmm buttons.

• You know how Internet Explorer has back, forward,
  stop, and home buttons up at the top of the
  screen?
• Did you know that built into IE is a special
  button bar you can use to create your own custom
  buttons that load particular web pages, open
  folders, or even launch applications like
  bookmarklets?

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Backing up your favorites list

• Once youve got your favorites list (and links
  bar) organized, its a good idea to make a weekly
  backup copy of it just in case your computer
  accidentally blows up.
• Fortunately, backing up your favorites list
  couldnt be simpler.

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Backing up your favorites list

• Just copy your entire Favorites folder to a
  CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or Zip disk.
• In Win9X, backup your C\Windows\Favorites
  folder.
• In Win2K/XP, backup your C\Documents and
  Settings\loginname\Favorites folder.

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Thats all there is to it!
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Sharing your favorites list

• Remember how your favorites list is really
  nothing more than a hidden folder on your
  computer?
• How can you share your (newly organized)
  favorites list with your friends?
• You could let your friends use your computer, but
  that isnt practical.
• You could zip up your favorites folder and email
  it to your friends as an attachment.
• Better still, you can convert your favorites list
  into a single web page that you can post online
  or attach to an email. Heres how

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Exporting your favorites list

• In Internet Explorer, go to File gt Import and
  Export

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Import/Export Wizard

• This opens Internet Explorers little-known
  Import/Export Wizard.
• Just follow the on-screen prompts and export your
  favorites list.

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So, what happened?

• Internet Explorer converts your entire favorites
  folder and its content into a single HTML file
  (a.k.a., web page).
• You can
• Double-click on the file and view it in IE.
• Post it to your web site.
• Email it to your friends.
• And your original favorites list remains unchanged

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Favorites v. links

• If youre like most people, your favorites list
  contains three types of sites
• Sites like your webmail account and your favorite
  online news site that you visit at least once a
  day.
• Sites like your bank or favorite magazine site
  that you visit once a week or so.
• Sites youve visited once, bookmarked, and have
  never visited again.
• The last two types of sites absolutely belong on
  your favorites list.
• BUT, youre going to be a LOT happier if you move
  (or copy) your daily sites from your favorites
  list to your links bar.

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Why use the links bar?

• Instead of having to hunt down your daily sites
  inside of your ever-growing favorites list, the
  links bar lets you create one-click buttons for
  those sites at the top of your Internet Explorer
  window.
• For example, youve already seen what my
  favorites list looks like. Heres what my links
  bar looks like

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Links

• Smushed over on the right side of your IE address
  bar is something called Links.
• If you are like most Internet users, youve never
  even noticed it.
• Trust me. Its there. And its going to change
  the way you use Internet Explorer.

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The links pull-down list

• Click on the gtgt to the right of the word Links
  and a drop-down menu of web sites appears.
• Thats cool, I guess.
• But if you change just one simple setting in IE,
  the links bar becomes MUCH more useful.

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Unlock the toolbars

• Go to View gt Toolbars and select Lock the
  Toolbars.
• Oddly enough, this unlocks the toolbars which is
  exactly what we want to do.
• If everything works according to plan, the next
  time you go to View gt Toolbars youll notice
  there is no longer a checkbox next to Lock the
  Toolbars.

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Moving the links bar

• Click and hold your left mouse button on the word
  Links, drag down, and then let go of your mouse
  button.
• This changes the Links from a pull-down list to a
  horizontal bar.
• And this is where the real fun begins.

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My links bar in action
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Customizing the links bar

• To add a favorite to your links bar
• Drag the web page's icon from the Address bar
  directly to the links bar.
• Drag any link from a web page, your Favorites
  bar, or your desktop onto the links bar.
• To remove a shortcut from your links bar,
  right-click on the shortcut and choose Delete.
• To rearrange shortcuts on your links bar, just
  drag the shortcut to a new place on your links
  bar.
• And, dont forget, your links folder is located
  inside of your Favorites folder, so you can edit
  it there too.

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And for our last trick of the day How to steal
text in Acrobat
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PDFs and Acrobat

• PDF files (a.k.a., Adobe Acrobat files)
  preserve the layout and appearance of an original
  document and, with Adobe's free Acrobat reader,
  can be viewed on almost any type of computer
  imaginablePCs, Macs, nix boxes, handhelds, etc.

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Stealing text

• Adobes free Acrobat reader (now simply called
  Adobe Reader) has two built-in tools that you
  can use to cut-and-paste text from a PDF file
  into another document provided the author of the
  PDF file hasnt disabled content copying or
  extraction
• The snapshot tool takes a photograph of the text
  you highlight.
• The select text tool copies and pastes the text
  you highlight.

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Acrobats text-stealing tools
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How the tools work

• Both tools work similarly
• Click on a particular tool at the top of your
  Acrobat window (just beneath your links bar).
• Highlight the text you want to copy. This copies
  the text to your PCs internal clipboard.
• Open the program into which youd like to paste
  the text, and then choose Edit gt Paste.
• Because the snapshot tool takes a picture, you
  wont be able to edit the text inside of that
  picture.
• But you can edit the text you copy using the
  select text tool.

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The snapshot tool in action
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The select text tool in action
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Great Websites for Teachers
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A Pictures Worth a 1000 Words

• Photobucket- Example http//photobucket.com/
• Rock You- http//www97.rockyou.com/

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Merlot

• Multimedia Educational Resources
• Online Learning
• Free, peer-reviewed collection of learning tools
  and simulations
• Developed by college professors
• http//merlot.org/

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US Institutional Accreditation System

• By US Department of Education
• Lets you check to see if a particular higher
  education institution is accredited.
• May want to check University of Tennessee????
• http//tinyurl.com/dwf7n

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Standards for Success

• http//s4s.org/
• Site offers a free report specifically
  identifying what students need to know be able
  to do in order to succeed in entry-level course
  at Americas research universities.
• College Boards uses it as a foundational element
  in development College Board exams including SAT,
  PSAT, and Advanced Placement Exams.

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Metacritic

• A huge, easy-to-read, meta archive of film,
  music, video game reviews
• Scores by color 1 to 100
• Quick shows the GOOD and BAD
• http//metacritic.com/

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Cute Overload

• AWWWWW
• Collection of really cute animal images
• Updates Daily
• http//cuteoverload.com/

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The GOOD Pandoras Box

• Enter your favorite artists or songs..
• It creates a custom, online radio station that
  helps you find new music youll love
• http//pandora.com/

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Television without Pity

• Missed an episode of your favorite television
  show because you were too busy grading papers?
• Site offers snarky, well-written, summaries of
  most major shows
• http//www.televisionwithoutpity.com/

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Cant Understand what your kids are saying?

• Urban Dictionary is constantly updated
• Learn current slang terms on my-space and more
• May help understand whats going on inside your
  peeps brizzle
• http//www.urbandictionary.com/

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Next Mini T-Google 201

• Teachers LOVED Google 101 so
• New Tools of Google
• Learn about the secret tools of this beloved
  Search Engine
• You wont believe your eyes

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Thats all, folks!
Some Information from this presentation was
created by Patrick Crispen