Congrats to the Newest 4J Bloggers

I hope you learned a lot about the new 4J Blog. Feel free to ask any questions you may have, and thanks for being at the front of our latest classroom tool.

I am sure many of you would like to have Peggy's Site bookmarked, so here it is....

http://nsweb.lane.edu/netservices/bloghelp/blogstart/

Enjoy.

team post

Class newsletter, book report, book talk, project description and due dates, sharing classwork.

Using Blogs In The Classroom

Newsletter
Parent communication
Reminders
Homeworks Links
Recording Kids
To Do Lists
Reading Groups Discussion across rooms/grade levels
Posting student work

Great Day

We learned so much about the Smart Board and Keynote today. THANK YOU!

Technology in Use

Tell Me What You've Been Up To!

I have seen teachers running in the halls to show other classes the amazing new things they can do with our students. If you have an idea that is working in your class or have found a neat tool on your SmartBoard, tell me about it. Anything; great sites on NetTrekker, videos from United Streaming, or just fun activities with students using your new boards.

I have added a new page on our site: Technology in Use
I want to showcase all the wonderful things you are doing to share and inspire the rest of you.

So If you have an idea, site, discovery, or activity that you would like to share, post a comment and I will put it on the site.

Some of the Latest Pictures

TILT Meeting
Originally uploaded by greig_carol.

Let's begin a story............

What happened?

On a bright and shining day I was hanging on my apple tree when suddenly........
(please continue the story by adding your comments)

Setting up Printing on the TILT COW Laptops

There are two sets of instructions - you only need to one or the other. The first set is for those not familiar/comfortable with ARD, Terminal and Unix commands. The second set is for those who are or those who are willing to give it a try...

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Instruction Set 1: How to set up the TILT laptops one at a time to print:

1. Before starting this process, wait until you have received an e-mail that your printer has been registered.
   
2. Plug the COW into the Network, plug the power cable for the access point and printer into a power outlet and turn on the printer.
3. Login on the computer as the Teacher.
4. Pull down the Blue Apple menu, select System Preferences, and click Print & Fax.
5. To add a printer, click the + sign midway down the left side of the window.
6. The Printer Browser window will appear. In the upper left corner, click the Default Browser icon.
7. A list of printers (or at least one) should appear. Look at your TILT COW printer and note the make and model and find it in the list. If there is more than one of these models listed, check for the hardware address, which is likely listed in parentheses to the right of the model. Select your printer on the list and click Add.
8. Exit from the Printer Setup Utility and the printer should appear for all users of the computer.
9. Do steps 2-8 for the rest of the laptops.
   

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Instruction Set 2: How to use ARD to setup all the computers at the same time to print to the TILT Printer:

These instructions assume prior experience/knowledge in working with Apple Remote Desktop, as well as comfort and prior experience/knowledge using Terminal and Unix commands.

1. First issue to deal with - will you use ARD Admin version 2.x or 3.x? One license for ARD Admin 3.x came with the TILT COW. If you choose this option, you will need to update the ARD clients on the TILT computers. Here's how to do this: Determine which computer you will install the ARD Admin version 3.x on -- with one license, install it only on one computer. Make sure all the TILT computers are turned on and connected to the wireless network. Within ARD Admin, search the IP address range of your laptops for all the TILT laptops, select them and put them in the All Computers list or a list of their own (enter the username Teacher and the teacher password when asked for a username and password). Make sure all the TILT laptops are selected, pull down the Manage menu and select Update Client Software... and then click Upgrade.
   
2. Regardless of whether you are using ARD Admin 2.x or 3.x, on the ARD Admin computer remove all the printers that you don't want to appear on the MacBooks, and run through steps 1-8 in Instruction Set 1, and then go to Step 3 below.
   
3. Know what the short name of your account is by going to System Preferences -> Accounts. When you see shortname below, type the short name for your account. Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal and start Terminal. At the command line, type the following commands, with a Return/Enter at the end of each line:

cd /private/etc/cups
sudo su
(You may be asked a question to which you should answer
"yes", without quotes, and press Return; enter your
password and press Return.)
cp printers.conf /Users/shortname/Desktop
cd ppd
cp * /Users/shortname/Desktop
exit
exit

Quit Terminal.

4. Go back to ARD Admin, select all the TILT laptops and click the Copy files or folders on target computers icon (it looks like a piece of paper with a green circle with a white + over it).
   
5. Look on your desktop for any file ending in .ppd. There should be one for every printer you have set up this computer to print to. Click and drag them to the list of Items to copy.
6. For Place items in, select Specify full path... and then type /private/etc/cups/ppd
7. For If an item already exists select Replace item. If you have ARD Admin version 3.x, for Set item ownership to select Specify user and group, and for Owner type root and for Group type lp (that's a lowercase L).
8. Click Copy.
9. Do steps 4-8 again, but this time drag the printers.conf file to the Items to copy; for the path, type /private/etc/cups -- all other settings are the same as before (including the Set item ownership setting for ARD Admin 3.x). Click Copy.
10. If you have ARD Admin 2.x, select all the computers again and click the Send a UNIX shell command to target computers icon (it looks like a Terminal icon). Type the following commands:
    

    cd /private/etc/cups
    chown root:lp (that's a lowercase L) printers.conf
    cd ppd
    chown root:lp *
    

    For Run command as, type root. Click Send.
11. Regardless of whether you have ARD Admin 2.x or 3.x, select all the computers again, pull down the Manage menu and select Restart. Now login as Student on one of the computers and test to see if you can print to the TILT printer.