Archive for August, 2008
A patch for CEN’s filter is coming to you soon!
As some of you already know, or will soon experience, that some of the sites that were accessible under the CEN’s old filtration system are now no longer available. The CEN has heard your concerns and is working with our new filtration vendor (8e6) to …
Head Start Agencies: Free E-Rate Webinars
Learn how you can receive 20% to 90% discounts by signing up for the E-Rate Webinar series sponsored by the Office of Head Start. There is NO CHARGE for these Webinars. Each session will last 60 to 90 minutes. The sessions will assist Head Start progr…
Converting Word docs to the Sony eBook format
Hi, my name is Ivan and I’m a gadgetholic. It’s been 15 days since my last gadget purchase. Of course, I’ll argue that each one of those purchases represents an enhanced quality of life, a way to streamline my day-to-day activities, thus freeing me up to…well, go out and buy more gadgets I guess. Take this one time earlier this year when I was in the United States. I happened to be passing the Fry’s electronics store in Seattle, so I popped in for a browse. I left with the Sony electronic book reader. It’s beautiful – it uses one of those special e-ink screens that looks almost like paper. It only uses power when changing the page, so battery life is very good (7,500 page turns in theory). My reasoning was that I have so much reading to catch up on, and this is a lot faster to “boot up” compared to my laptop. The reader is capable of displaying PDF documents, the only problem is that scales them to fit it’s screen size. So a document laid out for A4 doesn’t look so good on the reader. I really wanted to catch up on all those SharePoint white papers and articles that I haven’t had time to read, so I needed to figure out an easy solution for putting them on the Sony. So I’ve put together a Word macro. This reformats a document to match the Sony screen size, adjusting both page dimensions and margins. I also adjust the dimensions of any images in the document so that they fit the page, its crude, but seems to work. Once it has been resized, I can save it as a PDF document and download it to the Sony reader. This also works for web articles – copy/paste to Word and run the macro. I’m currently reading “The 01100 step programme to reducing technological dependencies”. You can download the macro code here
Tech & Learning’s 2008 Leader of the Year Program
Tech & Learning’s 2008 Leader of the Year Program is once again honoring K–12 administrators, technology coordinators,and teachers who use technology in innovative ways to help teachers teach and help students learn. Nomination form (You may nomin…
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Filtering Calendar List Web Part Entries
Not sure if this is a well known fact, but thought I’d post about it anyway. When you add a web part for a WSS 3.0 Calendar list onto a web part page, the default view automatically filters items to only show those with an end date great than or equal to today, and a start date that is less than 2 years from the current date. The time value is not used for filtering these items. This means that all current and future events that start within 2 years will be shown. Also, the description will be truncated after approximately the first 255 characters. Truncation will happen at the end of a word, not half way through one. If you don’t want to show 2 years worth of future events, you can use the following technique to reduce the time span: