Technology Boot Camp
How do we safely access, utilize, and create all of the awesome educational content on the web?
Your MacBook
Logging in
Trackpad
Programs
The Dock
Finder
Saving files
Care and feeding of your MacBook
Login using your school user id and password
Use the same login as on the school PC's
The guest account does not save any settings, bookmarks, or files to the hard drive after logout.
 The home folder has a little house icon
Your files will usually be in the Documents folder
Downloaded files usually go to the downloads folder
File storage options:
1. Hard Drive of the MacBook
2. USB Drive
3. Network folder
don't lose it!
may appear on the desktop and in finder at login
remember that others are using the laptops too: don't fill up the hard drive with your own personal video and music libraries
only available at school
Online file storage:
GoogleDocs
Edmodo
You may add or remove applications, folders, stacks, and files from the dock
Use Stacks for your favorite folders
Trackpad settings are customizable and can be set to respond to tapping in System Preferences
One finger = mouse control
Two finger swipe = scroll
Two fingers on trackpad + click = right click (also control+click = right click)
Software programs can be found in the Applications folder in the Finder
Some of the software that we may use:
iMovie
iPhoto
GarageBand
Comic Life
iTunes
iWeb
Safari
Firefox
Word
Excel
Powerpoint
iCal
Google Earth
Skype
LoggerPro
Graphical Analysis
If you need to move your MacBook somewhere, close the lid and carry it carefully to  the new location
When you are finished using the MacBook, be sure to log out then close the lid to sleep the computer.
Put your MacBook away in the cart with the number side facing out
Always plug in your MacBook when parking it in the cart
No food or drinks near your MacBook, please
Step 1: Learn to use the tools available
Clicking on Dock icons launches programs or opens files
Online Tools
Web sites
Blogs
Wikis
GoogleApps
Social Bookmarking Sites
Moodle
Edmodo
Step 2: Apply these tools to educate yourself
Somewhere between          kind of classroom....
...and        kind of classroom...
...there is a kind of classroom where the technology allows kinds of learning that were not possible before.
THIS is that kind of classroom!
http://socialmediaguidelines.pbworks.com/Student-Guidelines
Be careful what you post online: it may be seen and passed on to many viewers
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be held to high standards 
use a variety of web 2.0 tools to show evidence of your own learning
in this classroom you will:
be responsible for your own learning
Stacks are located on the right side of the dock
Pages
Chrome
Evernote
Easiest option, as long as you use your assigned laptop
  
DropBox
Taken on my cell phone in Chicago
Printed in the La Junta Tribune-Democrat
Also ran in newspapers in New York and other states
Viewed globally on the web
More about these later...
Why?
We are the people we've been waiting for.
The world needs your talents now!

Why Now?
Why us?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RamYdyilfDs  by connectingclassrooms
so let's....
http://ludwig.lajuntaschools.org