This is my first post for Fall 2011. I wanted to update everyone about Office 2007 v Office 2010. The college is now teaching Office 2010. I have tested our computers with Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 documents. They open fine and they have the same extension as the 2007 versions. So for us and for students the differences should be transparent!
Thanks to Jane Maringer in the High Tech Center/ DRC for helping us test this.
If you have any questions, please let me know
Dana
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
eBook news
As you may already know, our ebook collections will be hosted by Ebsco starting on or about July 1, 2011.
There will be a couple of changes due to Ebsco buying NetLibrary. One difference is our students will be access the ebooks through the EbscoHost interface instead of the stand alone NetLibrary ebook interface. They should also still have access through our catalog records. An even bigger difference is the single user restriction appears to be gone. I just opened the same ebook on two different computers.
Here is a link if to the preview of the service. Oncampus link to preview of eBooks in EbscoHost
Please email me if you would like the link to access this preview from off campus.
Note that eBooks are an additional 'database' in EbscoHost. As such, currently you must use the Choose Databases link to search that database. Do we want to make it one of the default databases after the change in July?
There will be a couple of changes due to Ebsco buying NetLibrary. One difference is our students will be access the ebooks through the EbscoHost interface instead of the stand alone NetLibrary ebook interface. They should also still have access through our catalog records. An even bigger difference is the single user restriction appears to be gone. I just opened the same ebook on two different computers.
Here is a link if to the preview of the service. Oncampus link to preview of eBooks in EbscoHost
Please email me if you would like the link to access this preview from off campus.
Note that eBooks are an additional 'database' in EbscoHost. As such, currently you must use the Choose Databases link to search that database. Do we want to make it one of the default databases after the change in July?
Thursday, March 10, 2011
'Saving' a file to a pdf
Happy Mardi Gras (a few days late)
For those of us that work with students at the student computers, we often get asked to help a student with some aspect of using the Dietary Analysis program (on computers LIB008-LIB010). The primary question we get is how to 'save' their reports to a pdf document. Here are the basic steps.
Note: a pdf is an electronic printout so the trick is that we are printing the document to a pdf.
1. Student completes the data input and chooses to print the reports.
2. Select the PrimoPDF printer.
3. When the interactive window comes up, leave the SaveAs selection to Ask When Creating PDF
4. Click on the Create PDF button
4. The student will be prompted to enter the filename and point at the drive or folder in which to save the document, click on the Save button. This creates the file and saves it to the drive and folder you selected.
5. The file is now ready to upload to the instructor.
For those of us that work with students at the student computers, we often get asked to help a student with some aspect of using the Dietary Analysis program (on computers LIB008-LIB010). The primary question we get is how to 'save' their reports to a pdf document. Here are the basic steps.
Note: a pdf is an electronic printout so the trick is that we are printing the document to a pdf.
1. Student completes the data input and chooses to print the reports.
2. Select the PrimoPDF printer.
3. When the interactive window comes up, leave the SaveAs selection to Ask When Creating PDF
4. Click on the Create PDF button
4. The student will be prompted to enter the filename and point at the drive or folder in which to save the document, click on the Save button. This creates the file and saves it to the drive and folder you selected.
5. The file is now ready to upload to the instructor.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Heads Up for student Gavilan login changes and Spring 2011 registration
Pre-priority registration for Spring 2011 will begin in a few days on November 18. (Don't ask me what pre-priority means since I always thought priority meant first!) The schedule of classes is available online right now but will not be available in print until 11/24/10 and after.AND
Students will be given access to MyGav as of the end of the week. When they want to log into Banner they will go through MyGav. For those of you that haven't used MyGav much you might want to get familiar with it to help students with logging in and such. Of course the login user and password will be the same as their familiar Banner information.
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Banned Books Week 2010
Banned Books Week starts tomorrow (9/25/10-102/10). We have added the ALA Banned Book Resouce Guide to the collection. It will be at the Reference Desk during this next week. If the past is any guide, at least one teacher will have students coming in to get a 'banned book' to read. There is a chapter called Challenged or Banned Books with a title, author and geographical index.
Click on the robots to get to ALA's BBW resources.
Have fun!
Changes to Our Microsoft Word setup on the Student Computers
Good Morning!
As of this morning we reset the student sit down computers to simplify the default formatting in Word 2007. These changes are in keeping with the requirements of MLA and APA formatting.
The default formatting is now:
As of this morning we reset the student sit down computers to simplify the default formatting in Word 2007. These changes are in keeping with the requirements of MLA and APA formatting.
The default formatting is now:
- Times New Roman (default font)
- 12 (default size)
- Double (default spacing)
- 0 -- we eliminated the extra space being added after every line
If you are interested in changing your defaults in Word2007 here is a link to an article with those steps. Change Default Formatting in Word 2007
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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