Looking for a quick way to create worksheets? The Williamsville Teaher Center has purchased a district subscription to makeworksheets.com. With the site, you can create printable teacher worksheet makers, rubric makers, math worksheets, graphic organizers, language arts worksheets, puzzle makers, and teacher time savers.
See me for the login info.
The web address is www.makeworksheets.com
Hey Mr. Nocek’s classes – you just took a test and had the option of handwriting or word processing the essay. Which do you prefer? Why? Do you find that you write more/better when using the computer? Please comment back on this – thanks!
Mr. R.
Tuesday’s Technology Tip
(Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier)
The web browser Firefox is installed on all building computers. Since the WITS programmers use Firefox when they work, you may find some things in WITS behave better. To find Firefox on the Dells, open the HeimM Staff Shortcuts folder on the desktop (the shortcut is titled Mozilla Firefox). On the Macs, the shortcut is in the Dock.
I attended a SMART Master’s Training day here in Buffalo with a bunch of Williamsville people, inlcuding 4 Heim teachers who have SMARTBoards full-time in their classrooms. The day was AWESOME! I picked up lots of tips & tricks on using the boards.
The mix of people was cool – there were 4 from Oregon who came to the training in here in Buffalo (not something you would expect…) We had a great time learning and sharing together.
Looking forward to moving forward with our 5 year plan to install projectors/SMARTBoards in every classroom!
We had an AWESOME inservice today after school on SMARTBoards. Myself and the comptuer teacher from Mill, Judy Labiak, taught a very enthusiastic crowd of teachers. Many creative ideas were shared during the session – we are looking forward to next week’s class!
Tuesday’s Technology Tip
(Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier)
The Help tab is one place where you can find documentation of how to do various things in WITS. It is the last blue tab at the top of the WITS window. Click on it, then click on a topic on the left to find out how to do various things in WITS. Also check out “What’s New” in the left column of the main page. New features are “featured” here.
Tuesday’s Technology Tip
(Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier)
A Dell left unattended and logged in is a security risk – anyone who sits at the computer has access to a lot of confidential information. If you are going to be away from your computer for a few minutes and cannot monitor it, simply press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and click Lock Computer. When you return, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete again, login, and you are right back where you left off. Remember that if you lock the computer (instead of logging off), you are the only one who can unlock it.
Tuesday’s Technology Tip
(Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier)
On Dells, your printers “travel” with you in your profile, regardless of which Dell you login to. For example, if you normally print to the A-wing, but login in and print in the D-wing, your printing will still come out in the A-wing unless you change your printer. This is true if you are at another building also, and print without changing your printer – your documents will still come out here at Heim.
Don’t forget – if you want to get access to WITS from home – put in the following address: wits.williamsvillek12.org (there is not www in the address). If you have the correct address typed in, you should see a box to enter your username and password. There is also a link to WITS on the left hand side of this page under links.
Tuesday’s Technology Tip
(Little bits of information to hopefully make your computing life easier)
On a Dell, My Documents on the desktop is not your real server folder on the network. When you open My Documents, you see all the documents in your server folder, but they are really only shortcuts. Your “true” server folder is found by double-clicking My Computer, and then double-clicking “username” on ‘all\staff\heimmiddle’. Why does this matter? There are occasional times where documents do not behave as you expect if you try to open or save via My Documents. To be safe, always open or save documents via My Computer -> ‘username” on all\staff\heimmiddle.