Chromebook Rollout, Senior High

Chromebooks were distributed to freshman and sophomore students today. Here are a few images of the deployment. Stay tuned for success!

Aspen Horizontal Scrolling Fix

As the your Aspen gradebook grows and fills with assignments, you might experience trouble scrolling horizontally with your MacBook through assignment view. The inability to scroll makes it tough to see all the assignments or add new assignments and grades. Here are the steps to fix Aspen's issue with horizontal scrolling.

• Click the apple at the top left of your screen
• Select system preferences
• Select the General icon
• Locate the option Show Scroll Bars
• Select Always
• Close system preferences

Now Aspen's horizontal scrollbars will display on your MacBook.

This video demonstrates how to make the adjustments.

WiFi and Your MacBook Air

Some teachers have experienced flakey wireless connections with their MacBooks. If your MacBook frequently drops its wireless connection, or it seems to take a long time to make a connection, a ten second adjustment demonstrated in the video below may be just the thing you need to send your wireless connection woes to digital oblivion. Try it!

Update, 10/1/2014

If you are asked for credentials to EWG_Staff, please note the following:

• Use the credentials you would use to login to a district owned windows computer or laptop. The format is first_last and then your password. Remember, this is the username and password you used for the older windows computers.
• Don't use your Apple ID or password. It won't work.
• Don't use your email address or password. It won't work.

You may also be asked to approve changes to your system using. Use the credentials that you use to login to your MacBook.

Bias, Stereotypes, and Hidden Agendas

As a participant in URI's Summer Institute in Digital Literacy 2014, I collaborated with pretty remarkable people and was fortunate to have been paired with North Union Middle School (Ohio) teacher Tenah McMahon. We developed a project to help students recognize bias, stereotypes, and hidden agendas in popular media. Of course, the project encourages and works through the use of some cool tech tools. We think participation in our project will help kids to more critically evaluate the multimedia bombarding us. Tenah is interested in a cross country collaboration between her students and EWG students. If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, let me know. I'd be happy to facilitate.


Image: By Witzel (L.A.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Projectors at Wawaloam and Metcalf

It seems that Metcalf and Wawaloam have a number of Epson Powerlite 95 projectors that can connect wirelessly to the Macbook laptops. Unfortunately, the projectors need a tweak to connect with a revamped EWG wireless network. We're getting to them as quickly as possible. If your projector has been reconfigured, you can connect to it with your laptop by following the steps outlined in the embedded presentation.



I think you'll like the ability to push your laptop's screen across the room to your projector. I'm not sure how old or new the Epson projectors are, but they sure project a bright, crisp image.

Cloud Printing Demo

The brief video demonstrating cloud printing at EWG might be helpful.

UPDATE, 9/4:  You can drag and drop most powerpoint and word files into a chrome browser tab and print directly from native word and powerpoint files without having to upload or convert the files. Watch the demo below.

Exam View Test Generator

Exam View Test Generator is available for your Macbook Air. Download and install it on your Macbook from http://goo.gl/8mFcwJ. You should be able to open previously created test packages on your Macbook using this tool once you have moved them from your old desktop/laptop/flashdrive. Let us know about your success (or problems ;-( ) by leaving a comment.



UPDATE, 8/26
If you have exam view test banks vintage 2001 - 2008 (not sure about the exact cutoff date), the test banks will not open with the new version of exam view. You can, however, open test files created with older versions. The test files can then be exported to test banks for remixing.