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SmartBoards and Windows 7

By kdr On November 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’ve forwarded the following fix to Technology Committee members, but for anyone experiencing troubles with Windows 7 and the newest version of Notebook and/or their SmartBoard hardware, give these three things a try:

I worked with Smart at the ETLC conference on our issues. I’ve posted their fix-it video at the bottom of http://www.kdreeves.com/etlc-day-one-video-report/. [...]

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Old Movie Maker Link for Windows 7

By kdr On November 13, 2011 · 2 Comments

While the new Windows 7 Live Movie Maker is… well… oh, let’s be honest. It’s terrible. I find it unintuitive and challenging, especially when working with students. It also lacks many of the finer-grained controls that many of us grew to rely upon in an OS-included film editor.

But have no fear! Microsoft, having seen [...]

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Yorktown Update: November 4, 2011

By kdr On November 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Student Log-Ins

While well-intentioned, the practice of having Student machines go straight to the desktop and having students authenticate to the web, network drives, cloud resources, etc after that is not working well. The secondary ITCs have all agreed that this needs to be overhauled, along with Student machine permissions involving changing desktop settings [...]

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Yorktown Update: September 21, 2011

By kdr On September 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Google Calendar Updated

The Google Calendars for the lab and laptop cart reservation system have been updated to include, beneath the reservation slots, a display of who has current reservations for each resource. Just scroll down on each page and you’ll find the Existing Reservations calendar.

Please carefully consult this as we continue to work [...]

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Yorktown Update: September 14, 2011

By kdr On September 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

If you don’t like random trivia or historical facts, scroll down to the horizontal line to skip my KDR nonsense.

Happy Unbirthday, America!

Who wrote The National Anthem of the United States of America? If you said “Francis Scott Key,” you’re the victim of inaccurate childhood civics lessons! The National Anthem is a piece of music? [...]

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Yorktown Update: August 25, 2011

By kdr On August 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This has been a challenging but productive week, so there’s a lot to report. I will use this blog resource to provide best practices, resources, emergent research, articles and commentaries germane to pedagogy and progressive education… and information about what the heck is going on at Yorktown and in APS when it comes to instructional [...]

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