Organizing Your Digital Closet for the New School Year
Part 1– Files, Folders, Printers and Email
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Tech Tip: Creating Your Class Schedule: Adjust Table Rows and Columns in Word 2003
Organizing Files and Folders
Begin each semester with a lesson on naming, saving, and organizing files. Organizing files and folders will increase your efficiency. Check out this handy visual guide prepared by the computing staff at Washington & Lee University.
Organizing My Documents
The Garden City, Kansas School District has created a short PowerPoint presentation on Windows XP file basics, including naming, saving and deleting files.
Mac OS X File Management
For a quick introduction to organizing files in Mac OS X, view these three excellent mini-tutorials produced by Atomic Learning.
The Power of Passwords
Lorrie Jackson explains how to select a safe password, and how to protect your IEP’s and other computer files from being viewed by unauthorized users.
Change the Default Printer in Windows XP
Michelle Castle provides a visual guide to changing the default printer so that your print job automatically goes to your preferred printer.
Top Tips for Outlook 2003
Did you know that there was a quick Mailbox Cleanup in Outlook 2003 to sort out old and large email messages? Here are over three dozen timesaving tips and shortcuts from Microsoft to make Outlook work for you. Be sure to click on More Mail Tips to view all the items.
Tech Tip – Adjust Table Rows and Columns in Word 2003
The Tables feature of Microsoft Word is an excellent way to create a class schedule. Once a table is created with the Table menu, you can easily customize the height of individual rows and the width of individual columns to get the look that you want.
Here’s a quick way to make row and column size adjustments:
1. Open your document.
2. Go to File – Print Preview.
3. In the Print Preview window, make sure that the Magnifier Tool (just to the right of the Printer icon) is not selected.
4. Move the mouse pointer onto your table. The pointer turns into a double-ended resize pointer. Press and drag on the cell boundary line(s) until the rows and columns are the desired height and width.
What Our Students Are Saying…
About the Effective Classroom Management class:
"I felt that the activities helped me organize my classroom better and run a "tighter" ship without sacrificing a friendly and open classroom climate."
~ 7th Grade Math Teacher Okinawa, Japan
"I don't think I could have made it through the next trimester without the ideas this class got me to think about. Whether you've been teaching for 25 years or have yet to set foot in a classroom, you will get something out of this class that will make you a better teacher."
~ Middle School Art Teacher Charles City, Iowa
Sign up soon for the fall classes! Register online at: http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/register.shtml
For more information, contact Joan Vandervelde, Online Professional Development Coordinator at vanderveldej@uwstout.edu
Phone (715) 642-0209
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