Massac Tech Ed

This is a small change, but a nice one. Google has added a thumbnail view for Google Docs. Our Docs site can be accessed at http://docs.massac.org To change from list view to thumbnail view, click the button as shown belown You will see a thumbnail display of your files like this Just wanted to share the update for our Docs.

Now this truly is handy. With your Massac E-Mail (Google Apps) Account, you can now upload, store, and share any file in Google Docs. I attempted this with a song (.mp3) and a picture (.jpg) and it worked. The real power of this lies in the fact that if you are working on a Word Document (2003/2007), Excel Spreadsheet (2003/2007), or PowerPoint (2003) you can save it to your online storage space without having to convert it. This way your files are stored in their original format and are downloadable from anywhere. (I tried downloading from my phone...and that worked too!) 1. To access this visit http://docs.massac.org and login with your E-Mail credentials. 2. In the left hand column, click the button that shows 'Upload' 3. If you are choosing to upload a document and you would like to preserve original formatting, uncheck the box that says Convert documents, spreadsheets, & presentations... 4. Click the Start Upload button. File upload make take a little time. 5. If

Do you have Office 2007? If so you have seen the dramatic differences in the user interface. Amongst the changes is the addition of the ability to publish to a web blog. The way that you set this up is to click on the office button and select publish. Then you can select blog. All you have to do then is select your blog provider. Then Word will prompt you to enter in your account username and password. After that you can start publishing directly to your blog from Word 2007!

From Scholastic's Blog: As 2009 draws to a close and lists of the Decade's Big Ideas abound, it only seems fitting that education get its 15 minutes of fame. The education brains here at Scholastic have named  10 Big Ideas in Education  from the first decade of the 21st Century--10 groundbreaking ideas that changed the landscape of American Education. They are: Alternate Paths to Teaching  -- from  Teach for America  to Troops to Teachers  to urban Teaching Fellows programs (like NYC Teaching Fellows  and  Teach NOLA ), schools of education are no longer the only place that teachers begin their careers. Transformative Technology  -- From  interactive whiteboards  to online education, 1-to-1 computing to  eReaders , for the first time in the history of American education, classrooms are increasingly plugged in -- and so are the students. Accountability  -- No matter where you stood in the debate on No Child Left Behind, it's impossible to deny that this decade marked a new e

With the addition of Google Groups to our Apps, we now have the ability to create simple profiles using our Massac logins. 1. To access this click this link http://groups.google.com/a/massac.org/groups/profile?myprofile 2. Sign in with your Apps (E-Mail) Username and Password. 3. Next to the words My profile, click edit. 4. Here you can upload a picture (even crop it!), as well as enter information such as job title, location, quotes, etc. These profiles are used in the Massac Groups section which can be accessed by visiting, http://groups.massac.org With the other items Google has added for our Apps over the year, it would appear these profiles are a start to having our own small social network. Have fun!