Weary+Teachers'+Page

Is tech about to work your last good nerve? This page is specially designed for those of you who just want it want yesterday, but small hurdles prevent you from moving forward. Who knows, after you've mastered the items below you may be ready to tackle the tech tips on the other pages of this Wikispace.
 * WEARY TEACHERS' PAGE **

Many thanks to E. Sessions of Technology in Motion, State of Alabama Department of Education for several of the fabulous ideas on the list. 

I. What you want to do: Right-click 
 * Problem**: You forgot or lost your mouse and using the touchpad still drives you bonkers.
 * Solution**: Place two fingers on the touchpad and use your thumb to hit the click bar on the touchpad. Voila! A right-click menu as you would have with a mouse.

II. What you want to do: find and save pictures from the Web 
 * Problem**: You're afraid to bring up Google Images because you don't know what will flash across your screen or you simply want all your pictures in one place
 * Solution**: First create a folder on your USB or on you notebook to save your clip art treasures.

2. Name your folder "clip art"

3. Click Awesome Clip Art (http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/) or go to Free Teacher Clip Art (http://www.pppst.com/clipart.html)

4. Find some clip art you want to save 5. right mouse click on it 6. click save picture as and save it in your clip art folder 7. find and save some more clip art 8. More clip art or photo sites

o William Vann's EduPic : www.edupic.net o Kaboose http://clip-art.kaboose.com/index.html

o Web Clip Art http://webclipart.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://school.discovery.com/clipart/

o Animated Clip Art (The image on the first page when I accessed it on Jan 15, 2010 was rather rude, but disappeared once advanced to the next page) http://www.artie.com/alpha-index.htm

o Pics4Learning http://www.pics4learning.com/ o Morgue File (Yes, yes I know the name is different) http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/193468

III. What you want to do: Print pictures  o Open your picture folder o click "print pictures" o click next, check the ones you want o click next o choose your printer o click next, choose the desired size o print
 * Problem**: It's complicated.
 * Solution**:

IV. What you want to do: Create web-based flash cards 
 * Problem**: I could do it on PowerPoint, but I don't know how to flip the cards virtually...I could do it on Word--somehow...Oh bother!
 * Solution**: Flash Card Machine http://www.flashcardmachine.com/

V. What you want to do: Avoid making your own PowerPoint shows  **Problem **<span style="color: #164116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;">: You don't know from whom to lift them.
 * Solution**: Search Pete's PowerPoints http://www.pppst.com/

<span style="color: #164116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 172.8%;">VI. What you want to do: Find and Save Sounds from the Web <span style="color: #164116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;"> o Option 1- Do a Google search for free wav files (for Windows) o Option 2-Free Sounds http://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/sound_effects_WAV/index.html Find a wav/mp3 you want to save, right mouse click on the file name and click <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;"> save target as Save it in your music folder on your MacBook
 * Problem**: You don't know how or from where to get them.
 * Solution**:

<span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 172.8%;">VII. What you want to do: Find stuff on the Web <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;"> 1. Use + or - sign or the word --The minus helps especially when you want to exclude certain items.
 * Problem**: You can't.
 * Solution**:

media type="custom" key="5168523"

media type="custom" key="5168515"

2. Use quotation marks around phrases that can't be broken up media type="custom" key="5168529"

3. Use a wildcard media type="custom" key="5168533"

3. Use Google advance search (pay attention to file type)

<span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 172.8%;">VIII. What you want to do: One-stop shopping for all kinds of Web goodies <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;">
 * Problem:** One-stop shopping doesn't exist on the Web
 * Solution:** Sure it does. Brainy Betty http://brainybetty.com/

<span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%;">IX. What you want to do: To capture a static image on a MAC <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 134.4%;">**Problem**: You don't know how that's why you're on this site <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 114%;"> <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 164.16%;">X. What you want to do: To flip a video around because your audience doesn't want to stand on their heads to watch your video. <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 136.8%;"> to grab onto to flip the video right-side up
 * Solution** **<span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%;">: **<span style="color: #164116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> Here it is
 * <span style="color: #164116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Hold down **CMD** (used to be open-apple/bitten-into apple) and **SHIFT** and the **4** keys simultaneously
 * <span style="color: #164116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Select the section of the screen you want to capture (use a mouse or the touchpad)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> After you release the touchpad bar/mouse button, MAC will magically pop the image onto your desktop. You can work with the image from there.
 * Problem:** Your video software doesn't work like your photo software; there are no handles
 * Solution:**

<span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 163.8%;">XI. What you want to do: To convert your Windows Movie Video (.wmv) to a Quicktime (.mov) file. <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 129.6%;"> <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">XII. What you want to do: Save your bookmarked Web sites because it's time to turn in your computer. <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 125.4%;"> stored. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410/ <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 114%;"> Mozilla's add-on **X marks** allows you to take your bookmarked Web sites with you. This is a handy tool for synchronizing and storing the bookmarks you put on your school-issued computer. When you turn in your computer at the end of the academic year, you don't have to worry about saving your bookmarks on a flash drive. Yet another marvel brought to you by **cloud computing**!
 * Problem:** You don't know what application to use.
 * Solution:** Flip 4 Mac <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 114%;">
 * Problem:** You're worried that you'll lose the flash drive that contains the bookmarks you've
 * Solution:** Mozilla (the makers of Firefox) **X-marks**

<span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 154%;">XIII. What you want to do: convert Flash videos (.flv) to more Mac-friendly forms (.mov, for example) <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 136.8%;"> <span style="color: #164116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;">XIV. What you want to do: Convert sound files <span style="color: #164116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 124%;">**Problem:** You don't know which application to use.
 * Problem:** You don't know which application to use.
 * Solution 1:** Download **Tube TV**
 * Solution 2:** Download Mozilla's add-on called **Download Helper** <span style="color: #134e13; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 114%;">
 * Solution:** Download **Switch**

<span style="color: #164116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 164%;">XV. What you want to do: Flip a video <span style="color: #164116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> up. http://www.imovieplugins.com/plugs/turnclip.html
 * Problem**: You forgot that you can't turn a video sideways and expect the image to come out right-side
 * Solution:** If you're using iMovie, try the **Turnclip** plug-in. Download it from