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= **23 Things - MacBook Basics to Enhance Classroom Instruction** =

**Each lesson will include:**

 * a **video** of basic instruction for the skill
 * an **activity** for you to complete and
 * a **discussion question** for you to respond to

**The 23 Things:**

 * 1) This is not a PC it is much cooler! Differences between a Mac and a PC
 * 2) Know how to install software updates and their importance
 * 3) Basic understanding of system preferences
 * 4) Your Dock - Set preferences, Add/remove things from your dock
 * 5) Understanding your "Finder" - Find things on your computer - Spotlight
 * 6) The difference between an application, a document, a window, a pdf,
 * 7) Organize files and create folders
 * 8) Connecting to the airport
 * 9) Using the Google window in Safari/Firefox
 * 10) Bookmark websites in browser Safari/Firefox
 * 11) Organizing bookmarks
 * 12) Setting a homepage in your browser Safari/Firefox
 * 13) Downloading from the internet and finding it
 * 14) Basic Word Processing
 * 15) Photobooth
 * 16) Basic iPhoto
 * 17) Saving to a CD and Burning it
 * 18) Saving to a flash drive
 * 19) Basic Emailing - Setup, Changing Password, Organization, attachments, signature
 * 20) Email Address Book - setting up group emails
 * 21) Entourage - Calendaring and Calendar Sharing
 * 22) iWorks/MS office, etc. - creating files and utilizing templates to use with students and colleagues
 * 23) Adding a printer

Enhance your classroom instruction by knowing how to make your laptop work for you. Bring your own laptop - BYOL!

**Goals and objectives:** "This is not a PC. It is much cooler!"
 * 1) **Four major differences between a PC and mac**
 * 2) **Be familiar with icons at the top**
 * 3) **Be confident about using your dock and making it your own**
 * 4) **Be organized**
 * 5) **Find anything**
 * 6) **Use basic applications**

[|I'm a Mac/I'm a PC Commercials]


 * Class Schedule/Outline**

4:15 - Welcome, Business [|"I Googled"] 5:45 - Break/Snack Instruction Four Major Differences: Software Update - always agree and install now - you can work over the top - run updates now Often updates require you to restart your computer, though -Katie Blunt 3/3/10 11:21 AM Lion Sleeps Tonight Video Main Toolbar Homework: Snacks assignments, 4 things that represent you, list of sites to bookmark
 * __April 13 - Preferences & Organization__**
 * Shortcuts of the Day
 * Command Q
 * Command Space Bar
 * Command W
 * Command Tab
 * Command F
 * Class Rules
 * Behavior Expectations
 * Be Positive
 * No Beachball of Death - It is the "spinning wheel of fortune"
 * I can attitude
 * Team up by Operating System
 * Asking questions and going slowly - raise your hand if we go too fast, remember it's a BASIC class,
 * Get to know you - create on ReadWriteThink - Name, School (place), Position (time period), What they want to learn (obstacle), favorite snack (personality), significance of technology in the classroom (significance) - Print it off and create - bring scissors, glue, coloring stuff **Google box on your browser & Command F to find**
 * Snack sign-up list
 * Command Q to exit programs - this is not a pc - closing the window does not close the program (difference between an application and a folder/window)
 * Three Bubbles Song - red/yellow/green
 * Always install software updates - You can work over the top of this!
 * Right Click = on a Mac
 * The Apple icon
 * About this mac
 * System Preferences - two ways to get there
 * Appearance
 * Desktop and Screen Saver
 * Set Desktop picture
 * Set Screensaver

__**April 20 - Preferences & Organization (Continued)**__ 4:15 - Welcome, Business [|I'm a Mac/I'm a PC Commercials] 4:45 - Instruction Review create pdf and attach to email [|Show apple tutorial site] 5:45 - Break - Cleaning your computer Dock - make it your own
 * Get to Know you - 4 things that represent them (take photos for last day)
 * Shortcuts of the day:
 * Command N
 * Command +
 * Command -
 * Command Spacebar
 * The Apple icon (continued)
 * System Preferences (continued)
 * Expose/Corners
 * Energy Saver
 * Keyboard & Mouse
 * Trackpad - Practice
 * Universal Access
 * Recent items
 * Force Quit
 * Restart
 * Shutdown
 * View - arrange by - kind, label etc.
 * Go menu
 * Applications
 * Connect to server
 * Help Menu
 * Toolbar top right hand corner -
 * airport - be sure you are connected. Why?
 * battery - Turn off your computer ONLY once a week - just close it the rest of the time.monitors
 * sound level
 * date and time
 * SPOTLIGHT - Search your computer for anything
 * sound input/output
 * monitors
 * Put it where you want it
 * Size/Magnification/Position/Hide and show dock
 * Add items (shortcuts) to your dock - go into applications and drag the icon to your DOCK - not the desktop
 * Remove items (shortcuts) from your dock
 * black triangle/white dot - SHOWS YOU WHAT IS OPEN
 * Red/Yellow/Green bubble - use the dock to move between different open files

[|You are learning computer language! - German Submarine Commercial]

Homework: Snacks assignments, 4 things that represent you, list of sites to bookmark

**__April 27 - Filing System/Internet Browsers__** 4:15 - Welcome, Business Orca Kayak Movie 4:30 - Review - show [|PC to Mac in Apple Tutorials] Review - practice command q - open 4 applications
 * Shortcuts of the Day
 * Command, Option, Escape - to bring up the Force Quit window
 * Command space bar - find things with spotlight
 * Command Tab - quick route to applications
 * Command N

Instruction Finder in the dock Documents - THIS IS YOUR FILING CABINET - organize it! Time to create your filing system 5:45 - Break 6:00 - Instruction [|The IT Crowd - This, Jen, is the Internet] Safari/Firefox [|IT Crowd - Break the Internet]
 * View buttons - icon, list, columns (view - show toolbar)
 * Seeing eye! - quick look at any document
 * Hard Drive - this is the heart of your computer
 * Your Account
 * Search - by name/file type
 * Places - This organization system is already there. Use it!
 * Desktop
 * Personal Account
 * Applications
 * Documents
 * Pictures
 * Movies
 * Music
 * Clean up your desktop by creating folders. Then, drag docs into your new folders. Then drag folders into your "Places" filing system.
 * Either save everything to the desktop and drag to appropriate folders, OR save to appropriate folders.
 * Review: "View", "Arrange By"
 * Colored and picture labels
 * Bookmarks
 * Create bookmarks
 * Bar
 * Menu
 * Show all - delete & organize

Homework: Snacks, send a note home to parents asking them to email you, bring a list of any other contacts that you want to add to email

4:15 - Welcome, Business Our favorite bookmarks! [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] http://elementarytechlessons.wikispaces.com/ [] [] [] (Wordle) [] (Use Safari for this site)
 * __May 4 Email (Entourage & OWA)__**
 * Review - [|Apple Tutorial - Finder Basics]
 * Review - Creating Folders and organizing
 * Review - Bookmarks Organizing/Creating

4:30 - Instruction Learn the difference between Entourage and OWA Learn how to use Entourage to do the following: 5:45 - Break
 * Send email
 * Find a district address
 * Find a School Faculty Group
 * Receive email
 * Carbon Copy (CC)
 * Blind Carbon Copy (BCC)
 * Send attachments
 * Create email folders
 * Flag email messages

6:00 - Instruction Practice - email a question for our Google question page Google Question document
 * Create address book contacts
 * Create group mailing lists (parent addresses)
 * Create categories / color code contacts
 * Create calendar events
 * Create categories / color code events
 * Invite others to calendar events
 * Deleting Events
 * Microsoft Office Reminders
 * My Day
 * Share your calendar
 * Create a To Do list

Homework: Snack, Bring some things to re-type in Pages

4:15 - Welcome, Business, Shortcuts of the Day 4:30 - Instruction Email: Answer "Need to be answered" questions Pages: Re-type a document for your classroom Getting data off a flash/thumb drive 5:45 - Break 6:00 - Instruction Slideshows - Create a slideshow using the photos taken from your "Getting to know you" presentation 6:45 - Conclusion Answer "For the future..." questions Course evaluation survey Watch for forms in your email - Lane Change Credit!
 * __May 11 - Basic Word Processing (Pages)__**
 * Shortcuts of the day:
 * command c = copy
 * command x = cut
 * command v = paste
 * command a = select all
 * command z = undo
 * command p = print
 * Double Click, Triple Click
 * Create address book contacts
 * Create group mailing lists (parent addresses)
 * Signature
 * Open new document
 * View - show layout, show invisibles, hide/show toolbar
 * Click and drag the gray area to move your window
 * Hover over tools to find out what they do
 * Add text
 * font, style, size, color (show colors), fill color
 * Formatting
 * Headers, Footers, alignment, spacing, lists (bullets)
 * Inspector
 * Page Setup - landscape, portrait
 * Spice-it-up
 * Text box, shapes, tables, pictures (media button)
 * Saving a file
 * Difference between "Save" and "Save As"
 * Naming a file
 * Templates
 * Printing
 * Save as a pdf
 * Choose a printer
 * Save as a word file

__**If We Have Time**__ **__Basic iPhoto & PhotoBooth__** iPhoto PhotoBooth 5:45 - Break 6:00 - Instruction Create a slide show with pics from day 2 Play a podcast iTunes Burn a CD __Internet__ Firefox Personas
 * Download pictures
 * Create Events
 * Create Albums and organize photos
 * Edit pictures - rotate, crop, enhance, red eye
 * Faces/Places
 * "Recent" menu - Last 6 months, last import, printing, etc.
 * Books
 * Slideshows
 * Taking photos
 * Effects
 * Backgrounds
 * Movies
 * Exporting
 * Deleting
 * Loading music
 * Playlists
 * What's in your library?
 * Music, Movies, TV, Podcasts, iTunesU, Apps, Radio
 * View - Album Art, Full Screen
 * Store
 * Purchase music
 * Free Podcasts
 * Recommendations:
 * National Geographic
 * 60 Minutes
 * Super Why
 * Sesame Street
 * Grammar Girl
 * NPR
 * Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!
 * This American Life
 * The Moth - Stories Without Notes
 * Story Corps
 * Twilight Saga
 * Old Time Radio Westerns
 * Audio Books
 * Data, Photo, Music
 * Windows & Tabs
 * Preferences
 * Set your homepage
 * Where to save your downloads
 * Empty Cache
 * Zooming in and out
 * History
 * Customize Toolbar (View menu)
 * Refresh Button
 * Google Search Box
 * Downloads Box (Window menu)

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