Organizing Your Digital Closet for the New School Year
Part 2 – Digital Photos, Clip Art, Newsletter Templates, and File-Naming Tips
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Tech Tip: Xdrive: Online File Storage for Teachers
Quick Tips for Organizing Digital Photos
The Hewlett-Packard staff provides some quick and easy tips for organizing your digital photos “on the fly” in Windows XP. The “Rename existing photos by batching” section describes a terrific way to rename a whole batch of photo files at once.
Using iPhoto (Part One) Organizing Your Photos
Dan Wassink has created a video tutorial to show the basics of using iPhoto to organize your photos into albums.
Learn to Use Clip Organizer
Clip Organizer is a timesaving Microsoft Office XP tool for managing clip art files stored on your hard drive. View Microsoft’s tutorial movie to see how Clip Organizer can arrange your clip art into collections for quick retrieval. For an explanation of how to import clip art, see Microsoft’s article Using Clips and the Clip Organizer.
Teacher Tools and Templates
The Education World staff has created a large number of excellent pre-made school templates which may be downloaded and adapted for your particular needs. See the Parent-Teacher Communications area for timesaving newsletter templates and the back-to school section for making name tags, creating a student information forms and a homework calendar grid.
Tips For Naming Your Word Files
James Marshall lists four tips for selecting descriptive document names which save time and avoid frustration when you are looking for documents on your hard drive.
Tech Tip – Xdrive: Online File Storage for Teachers
When hard drive space is at a premium, or you’d like to have access to your files from any Web-attached computer, online file storage is an attractive option. For security and accidental damage reasons it is wise to store important files off-site. XDrive provides free secure storage with the following features:
· 5 GB of free online storage
· Files are password-protected and encrypted for security during transfer
· Simple three-step process to upload files
· Ability to share files with others for collaborative projects
· Works with all popular browsers, including Safari, Internet Explorer and Firefox
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