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| If you walked into the lobby at Myles Elementary school this past December, you would have been greeted by some merry looking kindergarten students from Jackie Koster’s class.  Jackie and art teacher Holly Parker teamed together to create life-sized student elves by combining traditional art and digital photography. It was truly a cooperative effort as members of the 6th grade computer club, under the supervision of Kathy Donovan, Technology Teaching Assistant,  also helped in the project by preparing each of the student’s school photos in the Fireworks graphics program. Pictured above is Jackie Koster working with kindergarten student Michael Mercurio. 6th grade computer club member David Macrina is seen in back working on a photo in the Myles Computer lab. The picture to the right shows a finished kinder-elf fully assembled. Way to go, Myles students, Jackie, Holly, and Kathy for using technology and a lot of teamwork to brighten the holiday season!
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|  If you are running a program in Mac OS X and for some reason it locks up or crashes, you can force it to quit. This little trick is similar to using the famous End Task (Control+Alt+Delete) command on a Windows PC. Force Quitting under Mac OS X allows you to force a program to quit then continue to work in OS X, without requiring you to restart your computer or log in again!
Under normal circumstances, when you want to quit an application you can use a standard method, such as choosing Quit from the File menu or using Apple-Q on the keyboard, when those don't work, you can try these steps:
- Press Apple key + Option key + Escape key on the keyboard at the same time.
- The Force Quit Applications window (seen below) will appear on your computer screen.
- In this window, highlight the name of an application to force quit.
- Click on the Force Quit button. If you have open, unsaved files, you may receive a dialog confirming you want to close the program and lose unsaved work. Choosing to do so will immediately stop the program from running and close any unsaved file.
- You can now continue to work about in OS X without needing to restart the computer or log in again. You can even open the same program right up again right away!
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ALTEC, the Advanced Learning Technologies in Education Consortia at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning is an organization that "utilizes the most advanced and innovative technologies available to improve teaching and learning." One look around their website and you are sure to see how true this is. With a rubric maker, quiz maker, and many other powerful tools online for any teacher to use, this site is sure to be a great resource for any classroom teacher!
 The featured quick links above for this month bring you directly to several of the free, amazing online tools avaliable on this website. Check out the site for more info and even more great tools that those spotlighted above! |
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