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Issue 14,
Volume 5
November
18, 2004
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Thought for the Week
"You don't understand anything
until you learn it more than one way." -- Marvin Minsky |
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CPSB Receives
Technology Award
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 The
Calcasieu Parish School Board was awarded third place in Top
10 Tech-Savvy School Board Study. The award was presented
during the recent National School Board Association’s
Technology and Learning Conference in Denver. The nation's
top 10, digitally-advanced school boards were announced by
the Center for Digital Education (CDE) and National School
Boards Association (NSBA). The selection was based on the
Center and NSBA’s first annual Digital School Boards Study.
The study examined how school boards and their districts are
applying information technology (IT) to better engage their
local communities and constituents, and improve the delivery
of services and quality of education to public schools.
More than 2,500 school districts were invited to participate
in the study, which grouped school boards into three
categories based on student population. Survey questions and
criteria focused on school boards' online presence,
technology applications that allow the public to interact
with school board members, access to information such as
school board calendars, policies and agendas, and technology
advancements in the school board chambers and the school
district’s overall use of technology. |
Excel Tip
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 One
of the first functions beginning Excel users learn is the IF
function, which takes the form =IF(condition,true_result,false_result).
When you use this function, you typically test only one
condition at a time. For example, in the formula =IF(A1>10,"Great","Average"),
the only condition evaluated is whether the value in cell A1
is greater than 10. However, there may be times you want to
display a result depending on whether any one of multiple
conditions is true. Suppose you need a formula that says: If
A1 contains 10, or if A15 is greater than 20, or if A25 is
less than 100, display "Great." But if none of these
conditions is true, display "Average." You can create such a
formula by combining the IF and the OR functions. The OR
function takes the form OR(condition1, condition2,
condition3) and evaluates to a logical true value if any of
the conditions is true. If all of the conditions are false,
the OR function evaluates to a logical false. In our
example, the formula would take the following form:
=IF(OR(A1=10,A15>20,A25<100),"Great","Average")
If any of the three conditions is true, the OR function
evaluates to true, and the formula returns "Great." If all
three conditions evaluated by the OR function are false, the
OR function returns a value of false, and the IF test
returns "Average." |
Looking for a Way to Say “Thanks” to Our Troops?
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 Operation
Dear Abby is one of the places where you can send an email
to cheer up our troops this Thanksgiving and holiday season.
Use the 2nd URL to send an uplifting message through Defend
America. Finally, your class may wish to consider collecting
donations to contribute calling cards to the troops for a
much-appreciated holiday gift.
WRITE TO THE TROOPS:
http://anyservicemember.navy.mil
http://www.defendamerica.mil/nmam.html
http://www.operationuplink.org |
Locating Your Last Edits in Microsoft Word
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 When
working with a long document in Microsoft Word there are
times when you need to quickly find where you made your last
edit. Word can automatically take you to the last three
locations in your document where you typed or edited text.
Inside of your document press SHIFT + F5 together. The
cursor will appear at the point you made your last change.
To see the previous change press SHIFT + F5 together again. |
Looking for a Thanksgiving Lesson Plan?
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At this website students will
learn about the history of Thanksgiving celebrations and
feasts in America, how different presidents chose to
celebrate it (or not), and how it was tied to a
successful harvest.
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2001/11/111901_thanksgiving.jhtml |
Sending Email to Tech Help
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 When
sending an email to
tech.help@cpsb.org don't forget to include a "Subject".
When you do not put a subject in the subject line it makes
it difficult to determine if this email is a valid email or
"spam" email. If you put a subject like (register, virus,
printer, etc… this helps us get these emails categorized and
answered in a prompt and more effective time frame. |
Windows Movie Maker 2 Tutorial
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 This
site has a free tutorial for Windows Movie Maker 2. It lets
you create, edit, and share your movies right on your PC.
It's easy to use, yet it provides powerful capabilities that
rival those of expensive computer editing packages. You can
download the software FREE from Microsoft. It works with
both Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional
Edition.
http://www.atomiclearning.com/moviemaker2_sample |
Add Comments to a Slide as a Collaborator Within PowerPoint
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 Adding
notes to a slide show that's being passed around by a team
of collaborators is easy. Simply choose Insert | Comment,
type the message you want to share, and then click outside
the automatically created comment box. Repeat this process
to add as many comments on as many slides as you want. You
can also easily hide the comments if a slide gets filled up
with everyone's comments and is no longer easy to see
(although this isn't as much of a problem in PowerPoint
2002/2003 since comments are collapsible in these versions).
To do so, simply choose View |Markup (View | Comments in
PowerPoint 97/2000/v.X) to remove the check mark from this
option in the menu. Since this menu item works as a toggle
switch, select Comments a second time in the View menu to
reveal the comments once again. |
Postcards from Buster
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 Ever
wish you could take a class trip around the Unites States to
experience the diverse cultures that make our country a true
melting pot? Most of us do not have that option, but this
site could be the next best thing. Travel with Buster Bunny
as he explores the United States and shares his experiences
through video clips, songs, games, and recipes.
http://pbskids.org/buster |
Changing the Layout of a Slide in PowerPoint
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You
can change the layout of an existing slide by selecting the
slide and clicking a different layout thumbnail in the Slide
Layout task pane. If you make changes to the layout of a
slide -- such as sizing or moving a placeholder -- but then
decide you would rather use the original layout, you can
reapply the layout without losing text you have already
entered, by clicking a command on the layout thumbnail's
drop-down list. When you manually alter the layout or
the types of items on a slide, PowerPoint uses an automatic
layout behavior to apply a slide layout that matches your
changes. Select the slide for which you want to change
your slide layout.
Point to the text object's frame (but not to a handle). Then
drag the object to the bottom of the slide. On the Format
menu, click Slide Layout. The Slide Layout task pane opens
with the current slide layout thumbnail selected. Point to
the current thumbnail, and click the down arrow that appears
to its right. On the menu click Reapply Layout. PowerPoint
moves the object back to its original position on the slide.
In the Slide Layout task pane, scroll down until you reach
the Text and Content Layouts area. In the Text and Content
Layouts area, click the desired layout change. The layout
changes and carries the text over to the new layout. You can
now insert a table, new text, diagram or organization chart,
clip art or picture, or media clip as the selected content
object. |
Top Ten Viruses Found on CPSB Computers
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| Here are the
top ten viruses found on CPSB computers in the past 7 days.
The stats are based on 738
infected computers out of a total of
9424 OfficeScan clients.
 The
latest OfficeScan pattern as of
11-17-2004 is pattern
2.249.00. Please
check your pattern by placing your cursor over the
OfficeScan icon and viewing the pop-up window that appears.
If your pattern is significantly different than this
(A HIGHER PATTERN NUMBER IS OK), please
email tech.help@cpsb.org
regarding this or any other question you have regarding
OfficeScan.
 The
information shows the name of the virus, the number of
infected files found, and the percentage of the virus from
the total.
ALL school board employees need
to ensure that their Dell, Compaq, HP, IBM or other PC
classroom computers stay virus free. Go to the
following link to download the district copy of OfficeScan:
http://teacherlink.cpsb.org/officescan and your computer
will automatically be updated daily to scan for the latest
viruses. You must install the software using Internet
Explorer 4.0 or later (Netscape will not work!!!!!) Please
answer "Yes" to all prompts as the software installs. If you
have any questions, please contact the CPSB Help Desk at
tech.help@cpsb.org.
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Best on
the Net!! -- Visit this site for hundreds of websites
for teachers! We would love to hear from you about the best
educational sites you have found on the web. Please submit, via
email, the sites you feel merit inclusion. Send to
tech.connect@cpsb.org. Please include the URL and a short sentence
about the site.
Featured Sites: (These sites were
submitted by teachers in Calcasieu Parish)
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