How To Get the Most From Your Mac

Illan Olsen recently bought an iMac and I portended a peppering about problems. Because of this peril, I was  propelled into preparing a paper for Mac potentates. Others have proposed I pencil my points, but Illana panicked me into producing.
For this, Illana is the Ethernotes “Hero for the Day” on 31-Oct-09
Getting the Most Out of [...]

Jennifer Crowley: Finding what I lost

I was in crisis mode for about three weeks. I was looking for the report covers that work with our CombBind system. I had put them in the intraschool mail so that I wouldn’t put them down somewhere accidentally. Guess what? Some how I lost them anyway.
So I looked around my mess, er, office. No [...]

Marcy & Todd Toporski teach me a valuable PowerPoint lesson

Marcy and Todd are the Ethernotes Heros for a Day on 27-Jan-09.
My superintendent had a PowerPoint presentation that lacked a soundtrack. In the first wave, Marcy identified it as a missing sound file. She confirmed it with her husband, a PowerPoint guru. Then in a value added move, Todd located the missing mp3 file for [...]

zMARC issue resolved within minutes

Laurie Ketron, Media Specialist, from Centennial Middle School, helped me find a zMARC server  with Johnathan Rand MARC records. Hip, hip, hooray!

Transportation backs up

Tom Spoelman, MAISD specialist, is the Tech Dept Hero-for-a-Day on 11-Dec-07. He overcame an obstacle with Transportation’s PolyPlot application and restored us within minutes.

Web site requirements

Paul Mulder, Allendale Public Schools, receives the Ethernotes 3-Dec-07 Hero-for-a-Day award for his response to my “What’s required on a school district website?” question the MDE-TECHC listserv.
Website Requirements and Best Practices