Laptop Schools Meeting

Sept 21, 2010

9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

ESU 10 – Kearney

https://odie.esu10.org/workshops

Anyone currently in, or interested in, a laptop learning environment is welcome to attend the Laptop Schools Meeting on Tuesday, September 21 in Kearney, NE.  Any and all related topics could be discussed; that depends on who’s present.
 
We will again have roundtable discussion that will be based on the agenda items you submit.  Add items to the open agenda at http://sn.im/esu10-laptop09-21-10. 
 
Lunch will be provided by NETA with no cost for registration.  Register at https://odie.esu10.org/workshops.
 
Contact Nicole Badgley nbadgley@esu10.org, Jane Davis jdavis@esu15.org or Graci Gillming ggillmin@esu10.org with any other suggestions or questions.

For Mac users:

I recently ran into a problem with the SMART Board's Notebook software on the Macs with the Flash gallery items not working.  A message appears indicating that you should download the lastest version of Adobe Flash, close Notebook and start again.  It doesn't work, because the newest version of Flash is incompatible with Notebook. So you need to uninstall the latest version of Adobe Flash and install the previous one. A fix for it will be in the next release of Notebook - due in August.

Here's are the instructions I got from SMART Tech's customer support that will assist you in installing the correct version of Flash player to ensure compatibility with SMART Notebook™ collaborative learning software.

To correct this problem, the only solution at this time is to do a version roll-back to Adobe 10.0.45.2, which can be obtained with the following link, but be sure to run the
uninstaller first!

Flash Uninstaller: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6400303/uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg

 

Adobe 10.0.45.2: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6400303/flashplayer10_r45_2_mac.dmg

Once this version of Flash is installed, you should be able to launch Notebook and run the
interactive items successfully.

This might be a good alternative to clickers if you have a teacher willing to give this a try!

http://blogs.msdn.com/teachertech/

Found a great how-to article (and really simple) showing a method of combining multiple PDF documents into one.  Enjoy.

Check it out!  Looks like eBay for education!  This is a new site so there aren't too many things here yet.  Might be worth a try if you are planning to spring clean!  http://www.hootofloot.com

I found a handy little program the other day that solves a very specific problem.  Clutter on brand new computers.  I get a little frustrated with computers coming from the manufacturer cluttered with all sorts of software that is trialware, or unwanted.  So I used this nice little program called the decrapifier to help with this situation.  The name is well chosen, because in one running of the program, you can select all the crap on your computer and it removes it.  It is only for PC because we all know mac's don't come with crap. 

http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/