edtech bootcamp session #6 presented by: daniel greening and leroy wong, apple support specialists...
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EdTech BootCamp Session #6
Presented By:Daniel Greening and LeRoy Wong, Apple Support [email protected] and [email protected]
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Tip #1: Screen Tip #1: Screen ZoomingZooming
1. Hold down control or ctrl key2. Put two fingers on the trackpad at the same time and move your fingers toward the screen to zoom in3. Move your fingers toward you to zoom back4. More on visual enhancements in http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/vision.html and in Kristen Eichleay’s Top Ten Tips for UDL
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Tip #2: Text to Tip #2: Text to SpeechSpeech
1. Text to speech allows you to highlight text and have the computer speak it to you2. See Kristen Eichleay’s Top Ten Tips for UDL for directions to enable
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Tip #3: Screen Capture
1. Useful for getting screen images for training and instruction2. Command-Shift-3 to capture the whole screen, or Command-Shift-4 to enable crosshairs to capture part of the screen3. Can also do Command-Shift-4, then space bar to
capture or “Grab” a particular window, and then click the space bar to capture that particular window
4. See Kristen Eichleay’s Top Ten Tips for UDL for more
directions
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Tip #4: Spotlight
1. All the files on your MacBook are indexed and searchable. Even words within documents are searchable2. To search click on the magnifying glass at the top of the screen and type in a keyword3. Try to save your Office documents in My
Documents or Documents (or somewhere on your Mac environment) as docs on the Parallels desktop aren’t searchable by Spotlight
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Tip #5: Videoconferencing
1. You can use either iChat or Skype2. Sign up for an AIM account at
http://www.aim.com to use iChat (blocked in the BPS network) or Skype at http://www.skype.com
iChat can also be used with a Mobile Me account if you have one
3. Detailed iChat directions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2515
4. Detailed Skype directions: http://www.skype.com/help/guides/
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Videoconferencing Caveats1. Be careful. You can get spammed in iChat or
Skype (tends to happen more in Skype, in my experience)
2. You can block people in iChat by going to the iChat menu, Preferences, Accounts, Security, and entering the person you want blocked3. You can block people in Skype by going to the Skype menu, Preferences, Privacy, and
Manage Blocked Users
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Tip #6: Quicklook
1. Single-click on an Office document, PDF, or movie. Then press the space bar and it will give open up automatically to give you a preview of that document
2. In the Finder, if you choose the “Coverflow” view of a folder you can quickly scan through documents and then also press the space bar to get a Quicklook view
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Tip #7: Widgets
1. Widgets are mini-applications which can be quickly brought up by hitting your Dashboard button (F4) on your keyboard
2. You can install Widgets in your Dashboard after you enter it by pressing the “+” button on the bottom left corner of the screen, or go to http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/
to install more
For more information: BPS Sites: http://connect.mybps.orghttp://boston.k12.ma.us/techhelp/L4L.htm
Contact Information:Daniel [email protected]
LeRoy [email protected]