Craven Begins To Blog

Ord Elementary School teacher Erin Craven started a blog with information she gathered from the Fall NETA conference.  There is a ton of stuff about Google and it's capabilities.

Check it out:

http://technology4teachers101.blogspot.com/

Windows 8 Shortcut

Windows Key + P

Connecting your Windows 8 laptop to an external monitor or projector? Not a problem. Just press Windows Key + P and all your options pop up on the right hand side! You can duplicate the display, extend it or mirror it! Nice!

Forwarding To Your Gmail Account

If you want to forward email from an existing account to your gmail account, (Ex. I want my ESU 10 mail to come to my ordps.org mailbox) follow these steps:

1.  Open Gmail.  (your ordps.org account)
2.  Click on settings on right hand side.

3.  Click on accounts.

4.  Click on Add a POP3 mail account you own.

5.  Enter your email address.

6.  Enter your password.  Important - Check the box to leave a copy of retrieved mail on the server.

6a.  The POP Server setting may be automatically populated with mail.esu10.org, please change to mail.gnenc.org.

7. Click Add Account and Finish.  (You may get an error message at the end - disregard it)
8.  Mail from that account will start coming in about 15 minutes later.

Google Groups

Below is a link to a document that explains how to use Google Groups.

Google Groups Primer

Google Remote Desktop

Here is a link explaining how to install and run Google Remote Desktop.

GRD Link

Adding An Address to a List in Thunderbird

Since most of us are using Thunderbird as an email client, I will give step by step directions for adding an email address to a group or list you have already created.  The process would be similar in other email clients.

1.  Copy the addresss.
2.  Open Thunderbird.
3.  Click on Address Book in Menu bar.
4.  With address book open, you should see your lists in the left hand column.  If you don't you may have to click on an arrow to open a sub menu.
5.  Right-click on the desired list (ex. Ord Public Schools, Ord HS Teachers).
6.  Click properties.
7.  You will now see all the addresses in the list.  Simply paste the new address in the blank space and close. This also works in reverse, if you would like to remove an address from the list you can simply delete it within the properties page.

Step 4

Step 7

Scanning with Sharp Copiers

You can scan hard copies of documents from our Sharp copiers and have them show up in your email.  It is very easy to do.

Scan to email using Sharp Copiers:

1. Put originals in paper feeder
2. Press Image send button
3. Select file format
   a. PDF for reprinting
   b. Tiff to edit in Word
   c. Select OK
4. Select address book
   a. Select desired alphabet tab (Names are sorted by first name)
   b. Select desired name
   c. Select “TO” to select additional addresses
   d. You may have to type in an email address
5. Do Not Select anything in Send Settings!
6. Press the round copy button
7. Open email and look for an email from mbechtol@esu10.org
8. Right click the attachment and select save as and save in a location you can find later