Tutorials and Other Stuff

Files for downloading and favorite links always revised!
Alan's Tips 
Burning CDs from tapes and LPs 

Cybersecurity: 
These tutorials accompany CyberSafety, a Continuing Education course at BC's Capilano College.

Introduction

Know Your PC

Computer Viruses

Email and Spam

Firewalls

Spyware

Networks and Wireless issues

Kids and Computers: a presentation for parents given at the Wonder of Words conference at Hastings School- 21 April 2005

Computers and Internet Security: a presentation given to NAAAP Professional, Vancouver- 6 April 2005

Free Software for K-12 Education: a presentation given to the CUE-BC Horizons Conference, October 2007

The Maquinna Sun: creating an elementary school newspaper integrating technology with the writing process: a presentation given to the Vancouver School Board Faces of Technology conference, February 2008

Files and Folders and Drives, Oh My!- a presentation for beginning or awkward computer users, Spring 2007

Google Earth and Picasa- a presentation for Vancouver teacher-librarians: April 2008
Google Docs- interface, presentations, & collaboration- presented to Vancouver teacher-librarians: May 21 2008 and to the CUE-BC Horizons conference, October 24, 2008

Web Page Creation and Maintenance:
Before you begin- an Introduction 
Using Netscape Composer to create web pages 
Webpage Creation hands-on practice 
Using Netscape Gold to create web pages
Using WS_FTP to upload and maintain your web pages
Making web animations with free tools 
Tricks of the trade: Extend Composer with hand coding 
Working with Frames (When you don't actually know much about web pages)

Adding sounds and music to your webpages
Adding video to your website
Using Windows Movie Maker to make videos for the Web 

Getting started with OpenOffice.org (September 2009)
OpenOffice Impress QuickStart (November 2009)
Working with OpenOffice.org's free office suite (April 2005)
Customizing your OpenOffice.org 2.0 Setup (October 2005)
Making presentations with OpenOffice.org's Impress 
Making presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint 
Using Irfanview as a quick Powerpoint replacment 
Making a card with MS Paint 
Getting started with Microsoft Publisher 

Using the Internet better: 
How can teachers use the Net? 
Searching Better 
Web Tricks: annotating, saving and using Internet text and graphics and printing from the Web. 
Internet Starting Points for secondary teachers
Coping with the dread Download word 
This Page Is Under Construction 
Exploring the Anne Frank House Internet assignment  
Setting Up Mailing Lists in Yahoo Mail new!

Using Windows series:
Windows 95/98 for new computer users 
Clean up your Windows Desktop and Start Menu revised
Using the System Policy Editor (Poledit) to help with security
TweakUI to tweak the user interface 
Network Workshop (intro to Win95/98 networking)
Using the International Keyboard  

Resetting default file types in Windows and Mac OS X new October 2008

My Ubuntu Tips- things I've learned by trial and error to make this nice, free Linux distribution into a usable home desktop 

Installing and configuring Ubuntu- new February 2009- or as a presentation

Getting started with Microsoft Works series:
Word Processing with Microsoft Works
Spreadsheets and Charts with Microsoft Works
Databases with Microsoft Works 

Just for teachers:

Creating a classlist folder on Vancouver's new CSP workstations- Jan 2010
CSP for Vancouver teachers - November 2009
Using the free Virtual Electricity Lab to teach elementary science 
Using Operation Neptune to practise math word problems
Setting up ‘standalone’ Rosetta Stone to save student data across a network
Using the VSB's MediaNet service to book videos, DVDs and more - revised

Bonus stuff:
Hear the Maquinna Elementary Childrens' Choirs Online 

7 January 2010