Mac Tip of the Week: Unveiling the Secret of the Blue Dots!Have you noticed that some of the application icons on your dock have blue dots under them? What do they mean? How can you make them disappear?

The blue dots indicate that although you may have closed an application’s window, it is still running in the background to provide quick access when you need it again. To completely exit from a program, without having it run in the background, you must quit it rather than close it. It is good practice to quit a program that you won’t be using again soon, so it can free up the computer’s resources.

To quit an application (and make the blue dots go away!), follow these easy steps:

Just like last week’s tip and with many tasks on the Mac, there is more than one way to do this. I have provided two ways, the “Quitting From the Application’s Menu” method and the “Keyboard Shortcut” method. The choice is yours!Method 1: Quitting from the Application’s Menu1) Locate the application’s icon on the Dock. 2) Click the icon to open the application’s window.3) On the menu bar, at the top of the application’s window, click on the application’s menu. It is always the menu directly to the right of the menu.For example, if you are in Firefox the menu would be:4) Click Quit (Firefox). The name after “Quit” will change depending on the application.If you quit an application whose icon resides in the dock, the dot will disappear, but the icon will remain. If you quit an application whose icon doesn’t reside in the Dock, the icon itself will disappear from the Dock.

Method 2: Keyboard Shortcut

1)  Locate the icon of the application on the Dock.

2) Click the icon to open the application’s window.

3) Use the keyboard shortcut:  +  (Press the command button and hold it down while pressing the Q button).

If you quit an application whose icon resides in the dock, the dot will disappear, but the icon will remain. If you quit an application whose icon doesn’t reside in the Dock, the icon itself will disappear from the Dock.

My Hours This Week and Next (Sept 13-24):Drop-in Hours: Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 12:30 pm-2:00 pm in the HEDCO Technology Support Center (Brennan 80).Make appointments in advance or drop-in. Appointment Only Hours: Monday 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Tuesday & Thursday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm——————————————————————————————————–Mac Tip of the Week: Removing a Program From the Dock!Are there programs (applications) in your dock that you hardly use? Would you like to remove them?

The dock is much like the Desktop in Windows. It provide shortcuts to your most used applications.  When you first get a Mac, the Dock comes with a default set of shortcuts, but it probably includes programs that you hardly use. To remove applications from your Dock, follow these easy steps.Kudos to Ann Alderman, Chair of the Arts and Humanities Dept., for guessing this week’s tip! She emailed me about how to do this, in response to last week’s tip on how to add programs to the dock.

———-———————————————————————————————-Upcoming Workshops: SmartBoard  and Student-Generated Content WorkshopsHow to Use the SmartBoard & Document Camera, Sept. 28 12:30-2:00pm:

SmartBoard in the HEDCO Technology Support Center (Brennan 80)

We are pleased to announce a SmartBoard Workshop on Tuesday, September 28 12:30 – 2:00pm in the HEDCO Technology Support Center (Brennan 80). Colby Henard of in2change, our SmartBoard vendor, will give us an overview on how you can use the SmartBoard and Document camera to enhance learning in your classes.Please RSVP to me at greenland@hnu.edu. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.Feel free to join us even if you can only attend part of the workshop. For those of you who can’t make it, I would be happy to schedule individual training  with you for after the workshop date.Thanks to Elena Olkhovskaya, Director of Information Technology, for arranging the workshop.Apple Student-Generated Content Workshop - Jarrod Wyrick from Apple will give us the scoop and what we need to know about student-generated content and why we need to know about it!Date: October, exact day(s) to be determined. Stay tuned for more details!

Are there programs (applications) in your dock that you hardly use? Would you like to remove them?

The dock is much like the Desktop in Windows. It provides shortcuts to your most used applications.  When you first get a Mac, the Dock comes with a default set of shortcuts, but it probably includes programs that you hardly use.

To permanently remove applications from your Dock , follow these easy steps:Actually, like many tasks with the Mac, there is more than one way to do this. I have provided two ways, the “Click & Drag” method and the “Right-Click” method. The choice is yours!Method 1: Click and Drag1) Locate the application’s  icon in the Dock and put the cursor over it for example, the Microsoft Word Icon icon. 2) Click on the icon and while holding down on the mouse or track pad, drag the icon towards the desktop.3) You will notice a white “puff” underneath the icon.4) Release the track pad or mouse and the icon will disappear.The icon will no longer appear in the dock. If you later decide that you want to re-add it or if you accidentally remove an icon, have no fear! Follow the steps in last week’s tip to re-add it!Method 2: Right-Clicking1) Locate the application’s  icon in the Dock and put the cursor over it for example, the Microsoft Word Icon icon. 3) Right-click and then put your cursor over Options.4) You should see a check-mark in front of Keep in Dock. Click on Keep in Dock to remove the check-mark. The icon will no longer appear in the dock. If you later decide that you want to re-add it or if you accidentally remove an icon, have no fear! Follow the steps in last week’s tip to re-add it!

My Hours This Week:Drop-in Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 12:30 pm-2:00 pm in the HEDCO Technology Support Center (Brennan 80).Make appointments in advance or drop-in.Appointment Only Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 9:00 am-4:00 pm ——————————————————————————————————–Mac Tip of the Week: Docking a Program!Are there programs (applications) that you regularly use that aren’t in your dock and what is the dock anyway?

The Dock

Welcome  to the 2010-11 Academic Year at HNU! I hope all of you have a very successful and productive year!This brief weekly newsletter will keep you in the loop on faculty technology development activities & accomplishments, plus a weekly Mac tip & more! Faculty Technology Development Emergency?Have you gotten stuck trying to do a task on your MacBook that you were just sure you had already learned? Interested in learning a new technology or looking to try something new in your class? I can help!Stop by during my drop-in hours at the HEDCO Technology Support Center (Brennan 80), send me an email (greenland@hnu.edu), give me a call @ ext 1462 or visit my Faculty Development/Instructional Technology Guide.

HEDCO Technology Support Center (Brennan 80)

My Faculty Technology Development Hours Start This Week (Aug. 30-Sept.3):

Drop-in Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 12:30 pm-2:00 pm in the HEDCO Technology Support Center (Brennan 80). Make appointments in advance or drop-in.

Appointment Only Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 9:00 am-4:00 pm

Upcoming Workshops:

How to Use the SmartBoard & Document Camera: We are currently arranging for our smartboard vendor to conduct a smartboard and document camera workshop in the HEDCO Technology Support Center in September. Stay tuned for more details!

Smart Board & Document Camera in the HEDCO Technology Support Center

Special Projects:

I have already been involved in several exciting projects to kick-off the new year including:

• Education Department Faculty Retreat: On Wednesday, August 18, Daniel Ransom, our Librarian for Outreach, Digitization and Electronic Resources, and I were invited to participate in the Education Department Faculty Retreat  in the HEDCO Technology Support Center. I conducted a short presentation highlighting several exciting new services and technologies including the SmartBoard and Document Camera in HEDCO, the new Library Website (library.hnu.edu), and a demo of  how online surveys can be used in the classroom. We had a great time!

• Online Learning Type Measure: I assisted Thea Maestre in switching from paper-based to online assessment for the Learning Type Measure (LTM). The LTM determine a student’s learning style and is used in EDUC 245 and 332. With the switch to online assessment, students can now take the LTM outside of the classroom. This frees up more class time to  discuss and compare results. The online tool can also be used to visually compare students’ results.

Tip Alert! Mac Tip of the Week will Return!

The popular Mac Tip will make its return next week.Each week, I will share a Mac tip that I have learned from an AHA! moment, helping faculty, working with the Information Technology Dept, etc. I hope that you will find them useful. Stay tuned!

Our new mounted SmartBoard in the HEDCO Technology Support Cente

Our Loaner SmartBoard - Notice the difference in size?

While this SmartBoard offers the same wonderful features (and more) it is mounted on the wall and takes up a lot less real-estate. I am working with IT and the SmartBoard vendor to plan a SmartBoard training session in July. More details on the training will follow!

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Mac Tip of the Week # 11: The Untold Secrets of the PowerPoint Presenter Tools, Part 2

Last week’s tip stepped you through using the helpful PowerPoint Presenter Tools. This tip will take it one step further and show you how to change some of the Presenter Tools display settings, including changing the time displayed from the current time to the elapsed time!

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Special Projects Last Week: A Day of Sharing & Learning at the Deans Conference

The Deans Conference on Tuesday, May 18 was a huge success! This day proved that we have a lot that we can learn from each other and that we also have much to share about the exciting things we are doing! I learned a great deal from all of the presentations.Thanks for a great attendance at my workshops, “Podcasting with PowerPoint” and “Using and Sharing Course Content with the Creative Commons License: How & Why?” I have posted the handouts from these workshops on the Faculty Development/Instructional Technology Guide.If you would like assistance integrating either PowerPoint podcasts or Creative Commons licensed materials into your courses please let me know!

Last week’s tip stepped you through using the helpful PowerPoint Presenter Tools. This tip will take it one step further and show you how to change some of the Presenter Tools display settings.To change the time displayed from the current time to the elapsed time:1) Play your presentation using the PowerPoint Presenter Tools (see last week’s tip on how to do this).2) Click the button.  The elapsed time will now display in the top left corner:3) To start the timer, click the button.4) To stop the timer and reset the time click the button.5) To change the time display back to the current time, click the  button. The current time will once again be displayed.Other useful buttons:1) To view the Up Next window, click on the button. The Up Next window is a small preview window that displays the next slide to be displayed. The window can be dragged to your preferred location on the screen. Only you can see this window, not your students. To close it, click the close button on the window or click the button again.2) To view helpful shortcut tips that you can use to move through your slide show, click the button:

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Mac Tip of the Week # 10: The Untold Secrets of the PowerPoint Presenter Tools!

When playing your PowerPoint presentations, do you use the Presenter Tools? If not, you might want to try it next time.The Presenter Tools  allow you to see the time (current or elapsed), view your slide notes, and preview the next slide. It also allows you to open links from your presentations (something you can’t do if you show the presentation without the Presenter Tools).This tip will show you how to take advantage of these helpful tools!

Viewing a Presentation with the PowerPoint Presenter Tools

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Special Projects Last Week

At the Graduate Hooding on Friday May 14, Thea Maestre gave a wonderful speech that reflects our diversity at HNU. Part of her speech included reading a children’s literature book while  extraordinary multicultural illustrations projected on both walls of the VCPA.

MacBook up on the CatWalk. The USB drive plugged into the left side of the computer activated the clicker.

Two projectors (mounted on the CatWalk railings) and a MacBook were used to project the images, which were scanned with the Library’s new scanner. As Thea read from the book, she used a clicker that commanded the MacBook (located way up on the CatWalk!) to advance to the next slide. Great job Thea!

One of the Projectors attached to the CatWalk Railings (mid-right, silver).