School PD

A joke from "computerjokes.net"

Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Desktop."
Customer: "Ok."
Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "Ok. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"
Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote click'."

1. Use of scanner
--Scanning image with Photoshop
File-->Import-->Twain Source
Advance panel:
Select: color photo, 200-300 dpi for resolution
Preview to select the scanning area
Scan
Close the scanning panel
Work with Photoshop

--Scanning text with MS Word
File-->Textbridge
Select scanner as document source and b/w text




2. Use of Projector with notebook
Fn key with F8 key to synchronize the projector

3. Online Homework
Teachers' pages are posted at teachers' section of school site



4. Other resources
PBS: resources
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/

Teachersnetwork: teaching resources
http://www.teachersnetwork.org/

thinkquest: student online projects
http://www.tqnyc.org/



You Know You're Too Hi-Tech If ...
-- You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.
-- You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
--You call your son's beeper to let him know that it is time to eat. He emails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
-- Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
-- You chat several times a day with someone from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
-- Your daughter just bought a single CD of all the records your college roommate used to play.
-- Your grandmother clogs up your email inbox asking you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
-- You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
-- The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.
-- You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
-- Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have email addresses.
-- You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in person.
-- You've printed this out and are reading it in the "library."