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To create a group in your Mac OS X Mail address book for easily mailing a list of people:
• Open the Mac OS X Address Book.
• Press the + button underneath the Group column.
• Type the desired name of your new mailing list.
• Press Enter.
Add Members to Your Mac OS X Mail Group
You can add new members to your OS X Mail mailing list by drawing from existing contacts or by adding to a group specifically.
To add people already in your address book to a group:
• Open the Mac OS X Address Book.
• Highlight All in the Group column.
• Drag and drop the desired contacts to the group in the Group column.
- If more than one email address is listed, Mac OS X Mail will use the most recently used address when you send a message to the list.
To add a contact to a OS X Address Book group:
* Open the Mac OS X Address Book.
* Highlight the desired group in the Group column.
* Click the + sign underneath the Name column.
* Enter all desired contact details.
o Make sure you think of adding at least one email address.
o The contact will also show up under the All group automatically.
There are a couple of features in Skyward Gradebook you may be unfamiliar with: One of these is the message center which acts like an email system within the gradebook program. Rayanne has composed a couple of excellent guides on using message center to check messages or to send them.
Using Message Center (Rayanne’s PDF Guide)
Adding a Message to Message Center (Rayanne’s PDF Guide)
Click here for a quick guide to recording in Photobooth recording-with-photo-booth
Click Here for a quick guide on locating your Jabber List wheres-jabber
Note (On some machines where it says Jabber List, it may instead say your name)
Click on the image to download Clark’s Guide to IChat IChat-Basics
Click on the image to view the PDF guide.rearranging-students-in-gradebook
Click here to download a PDF on how to record with IChat. IChat-recording-instructions
ICAL has a strange default behavior when it comes to subscribing to calendars. When you subscribe to a published calendar the default selected options are to NEVER refresh and to NOT include any attachments or to do list. Here is how to correct this problem using the GHS Important Dates Calendar as an example.
Step 1: open ICAL
Step 2: Select the HS important Dates Calendar (Or other published Calendar)
Step 3: Then Alternate Click (Hold CTRL down and click the mouse) on the Calendar
Select Get Info:
This will bring up the box where you can uncheck the boxes and select Auto-Refresh to Every Hour.
Change your options to look like this:
Make sure you uncheck all of the check boxes and change the Auto-refesh option to Every 15 mintutes or Every Hour
Click Okay and now you will be automatically updated with changes to this calendar.
One of the most frequently asked questions I hear in the district is how can I show YouTube videos in class. Since YouTube is currently blocked in the district by our content filter the following is a good way to work around this limitation. I have created a video podcast on how to do this here or you can click on the tech podcast feed over to the right (GCSD Tech Podcast). Save YouTube Videos- Video Tutorial (Show Full Sceen for Optimum Viewing)
How to Save YouTube videos at home:
1. Go to YouTube.com and find an episode you would like to save.
2. Highlight the URL at the top of screen and click on EDIT then COPY
3. Now open a new Broswer Tab or Window by holding the Command Key (Apple Key) + T or Command Key + N
4. In the new windows that appears type http://www.keepvid.com in the blank URL window.
5. In the website that appears click in the Blue URL box in the webpage and Click EDIT and then PASTE to put your YouTube movie url in the box.
6. Now click on DOWNLOAD
7. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Download (MP4)
8. Now Click on the file video.mp4 (saved either on your desktop or in you downloads). You can then rename the file something meaningful like classproject.mp4
That’s it. The only catch to this trick is that it will not work on campus but will work everywhere else. Perfect tool to use at home.
Hello All,
In technical writings computer users are frequently divided into two types: those who have lost important data and those who will.
How often you back up data is up to the user. If you have countless hours invested in projects on your machine, have important email to preserve, etc. the more sense it makes to have a regular back up schedule or strategy.
In the district we have had five elementary teachers that had hard drive failures over the summer. The elementary teachers have MacBooks with a 120 GB Hitachi hard drive. GMS and GHS teachers have MacBooks that were purchased later in the last school year and they have 160 GB Fujitsu hard drives. There have been no drive failures in those machines. There have been no significant problems with the iMacs used by secretaries and others. (There may eventually be a recall on the 120 GB drives - the problems with the 120 GB Hitachi drives are a known issue that is ‘being investigated by Apple’)
Guide To Backing up your Mac
